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On 6/22/09, Mark Phillips <
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> Lisa,
>
> Now that picture says it all.....thanks!
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Lisa Kachold
> <lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote:
>
>> Okay - here you go:
>>
>> http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/courage.jpg
>>
>> On 6/22/09, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion@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@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@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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