Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!
Lisa Kachold
lisakachold at obnosis.com
Mon Jun 22 19:13:57 MST 2009
Okay - here you go:
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On 6/22/09, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
> The missing file errors are leftovers. Something in your system is still
> referencing the old OO.o version 2.4, and the new 3.0 version changed the
> filenames. You can safely ignore that (or hunt down what's referencing the
> old files and fix it, if you're adventurous).
> libxml2 is used by a lot of software, don't remove it.
> Stick with apt and dpkg (APT is really a frontend for dpkg) as much as
> possible, it's easy to get borked when you go outside the fence...
> You can remove the renamed xml2lib.so.2.6.30. It's borken, and is just
> wasting space now.
> The metacity missing file thing
> (/home/mark/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file) is
> not uncommon, you simply don't have a saved session there. Metacity will
> generally recover just fine and fix itself on that.
> AFAICT the authentication warnings are about SSL stuff (are you running a
> web server?). I don't think those are a problem, but I'll defer to the more
> security-skilled on the list in this regard.
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> Joseph,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions. When I reinstalled libxml2 there were no
>> errors.
>> When I installed the librsvg2 apps, librsvg2-2 and librsvg2-common were
>> already the latest versions and librsvg2-bin was installed. After a
>> reboot,
>> I still had the libxml2 errors in .xsession-errors.
>>
>> I searched for libxml2.so, and the 2.6 version was still present. After
>> some
>> googling on this error, It seems that vmware installed it (from tar.gz and
>> not apt), so it was not being maintained by apt. I removed vmware
>> completely
>> but /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.30 was still present. So, I renamed it
>> xml2lib.so.2.6.30 and reinstalled libxm2. After a reboot, my desktop icons
>> came back. Can I safely remove this file? How would I find out if another
>> program that I have not started still needs it? 99.99% of all my programs
>> are installed with apt; the vmware install was unusual.
>>
>> I still have these errors in .xsession-errors:
>> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
>> SESSION_MANAGER=local/narwhale:@
>> /tmp/.ICE-unix/4441,unix/narwhale:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4441
>> Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
>> /home/mark/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file
>> '/home/mark/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or
>> directory
>> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-nSmW8a/socket
>> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-nSmW8a/socket.ssh
>> 21/06/2009 08:22:45 AM Autoprobing TCP port
>> 21/06/2009 08:22:45 AM Autoprobing selected port 5900
>> 21/06/2009 08:22:45 AM Advertising security type: 'TLS' (18)
>> 21/06/2009 08:22:45 AM Advertising authentication type: 'No
>> Authentication'
>> (1)
>> 21/06/2009 08:22:45 AM Advertising security type: 'No Authentication' (1)
>>
>> ** (nautilus:4681): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
>> Unable to open desktop file
>> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org2.4-writer.desktop for panel
>> launcher:
>> No such file or directory
>> Unable to open desktop file
>> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org2.4-calc.desktop for panel launcher:
>> No such file or directory
>> Unable to open desktop file
>> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org2.4-base.desktop for panel launcher:
>> No such file or directory
>> ESC[31;01merror: No system tray detected on this system. Unable to start,
>> exiting. ESC[0m
>> Window manager warning: Invalid WM_TRANSIENT_FOR window 0x220000e
>> specified
>> for 0x220000c (HPLIP Stat).
>>
>> ESC[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)ESC[0m
>> ESC[01mSystem Tray Status Service ver. 2.0ESC[0m
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
>> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
>> under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
>>
>> Should I be concerned about the warnings and missing authentication? How
>> do
>> I fix them?
>>
>> Thanks for all your help!!!!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Joseph Sinclair
>> <plug-discussion at stcaz.net
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> You have a couple problems that I can see from this:
>>> 1) libxml is horked. This is pretty bad (because of all the xml in the
>>> Gnome configs), but can be fixed
>>> 2) Nautilus is failing to start due to missing core library dependencies,
>>> this is what's causing your no-desktop issues.
>>>
>>> try the following:
>>> sudo apt-get install --reinstall libxml2
>>> sudo apt-get install librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common librsvg2-bin
>>>
>>> that may get you to a more stable state.
>>>
>>> It's possible that you're just a bit too far out in front of the devs
>>> with
>>> Squeeze, so you may have to wait a bit for them to get librsvg-2 properly
>>> packaged for you before Gnome will work again...
>>>
>>> Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>> Joseph,
>>>>
>>>> This is in .xsession-errors:
>>>> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
>>>> SESSION_MANAGER=local/narwhale:@
>>>> /tmp/.ICE-unix/4168,unix/narwhale:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4168
>>>> 1245556817.745420 Session manager: disconnected...
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file
>>>> /home/mark/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file
>>>> '/home/mark/.config/metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or
>>>> directory
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-u7nyMw/socket
>>>> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-u7nyMw/socket.ssh
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> 20/06/2009 09:00:31 PM Autoprobing TCP port
>>>> 20/06/2009 09:00:31 PM Autoprobing selected port 5900
>>>> 20/06/2009 09:00:31 PM Advertising security type: 'TLS' (18)
>>>> 20/06/2009 09:00:31 PM Advertising authentication type: 'No
>>> Authentication'
>>>> (1)
>>>> 20/06/2009 09:00:31 PM Advertising security type: 'No Authentication'
>>>> (1)
>>>>
>>>> ** (nautilus:4409): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported
>>>> nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined
>>>> symbol:
>>>> xmlNewEntity
>>>>
>>>> (nautilus:4417): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message:
>>>> Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
>>>> Unable to open desktop file
>>>> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org2.4-writer.desktop for panel
>>> launcher:
>>>> No such file or directory
>>>> Unable to open desktop file
>>>> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org2.4-calc.desktop for panel
>>> launcher:
>>>> No such file or directory
>>>> Unable to open desktop file
>>>> /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org2.4-base.desktop for panel
>>> launcher:
>>>> No such file or directory
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> epiphany-browser: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2:
>>>> undefined
>>>> symbol: xmlNewEntity
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> epiphany-browser: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2:
>>>> undefined
>>>> symbol: xmlNewEntity
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> Warning: program compiled against libxml 207 using older 206
>>>> epiphany-browser: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/librsvg-2.so.2:
>>>> undefined
>>>> symbol: xmlNewEntity
>>>> nsHeaderInfo: registerSelf called!
>>>> nsHeaderInfo: registerSelf called!
>>>>
>>>> compiz was not installed for some reason, so I tried installing it, but
>>> no
>>>> change.
>>>> It appears that I have two versions of libxml2 installed -
>>>> /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.3
>>>> /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.30
>>>> but dpkg says I only have one:
>>>> narwhale:/home/mark# dpkg -l libxml2*
>>>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>>> |
>>>>
>>> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>>>> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
>>>> uppercase=bad)
>>>> ||/ Name Version Description
>>>>
>>> +++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
>>>> ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
>>>> un libxml2-dev <none> (no description available)
>>>> un libxml2-doc <none> (no description available)
>>>> un libxml2-headers <none> (no description available)
>>>> un libxml2-python2.3 <none> (no description available)
>>>> ii libxml2-utils 2.7.3.dfsg-1 XML utilities
>>>> narwhale:/home/mark#
>>>>
>>>> I remember several of those warning about libxml during apt-get upgrade.
>>> I
>>>> don't know if this is the problem, but one of the errors in
>>> .xsession-errors
>>>> mentions an unknown xml entry.
>>>> I don't know how to "blow away" my gconf or gnome configuration as
>>> suggested
>>>> by James, nor do I understand if that will help.
>>>>
>>>> Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Joseph Sinclair
>>>> <plug-discussion at stcaz.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From the sound of it Nautilus is not starting or failing on startup.
>>>>> Have you looked at .xsession-errors? There may be something there
>>>>> about
>>> a
>>>>> dbus failure.
>>>>> Try (from a command-line if you can get a terminal started) running
>>>>> nautilus directly, if that "fixes" the problem, then you know for
>>> certain
>>>>> what's failing (you might also get debug output that can help tell you
>>> why).
>>>>> If you can't start Nautilus, try disabling compiz, sometimes that
>>>>> causes
>>>>> problems during upgrades.
>>>>> I had a similar problem in a stable release, and I had some luck with
>>> (via
>>>>> command-line) disabling compiz and dropping back to a simpler graphics
>>>>> driver (kernel drivers first, VESA if those fail). You might have some
>>> luck
>>>>> trying that.
>>>>> If all else fails, you might need to blow away your gnome configuration
>>>>> files (back them up first!) as suggested by James.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>>>> I am running Debian testing on my laptop. Just completed a routine
>>>>> apt-get
>>>>>> update apt-get upgrade, and now all my desktop icons are gone and
>>>>>> every
>>>>> time
>>>>>> I access the menus (Applications, Places, System) the upper and lower
>>>>> menu
>>>>>> bars disappear and then come back. I am writing this email in a
>>>>>> browser
>>>>>> window, so once an application is launched it seems to work OK.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no idea where to start debugging this problem. Any suggestions
>>> are
>>>>>> welcome!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P.S. I am running gnome, not KDE. Also, I cannot right click on the
>>>>> desktop
>>>>>> - nothing happens.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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