Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:31:44AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> mozilla-thunderbird
| find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d/*: No such file or 
| directory
| 
| and then just dies. So I'd say there's still some brokenness in sid's 
| version. I don't know what the fix is for that.

Just a guess, but try
   # mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d
   # chmod o+rx /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird
   # chmod o+rx /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d
-D

(I haven't looked at thunderbird myself yet, however next time I need
to test something in particular I'll install it)
 

The directory, or actually a symlink, already exists.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> ls -ld 
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.dlrwxrwxrwx1 root 
root   44 Oct 21 09:07 
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d -> 
/var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d

And the referenced directory exists:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> ls -ld 
/var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.ddrwxr-xr-x2 root 
root 1024 Oct 18 06:22 /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d

But, it's an empty directory:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> ls -la 
/var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d
total 2
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Oct 18 06:22 .
drwxr-xr-x6 root root 1024 Oct 21 09:07 ..

But interestingly, you gave me the idea to run it as super-user, so I 
ran "sudo mozilla-thunderbird". I still got the error, but this time 
thunderbird started. So I exited out, and then ran it as my normal user, 
and now it works, and I no longer even get the error message, even 
though the directory is still empty.

Huh. Go figure.

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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:31:44AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> mozilla-thunderbird
| find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d/*: No such file or 
| directory
| 
| and then just dies. So I'd say there's still some brokenness in sid's 
| version. I don't know what the fix is for that.

Just a guess, but try
# mkdir -p /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d
# chmod o+rx /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird
# chmod o+rx /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d

-D

(I haven't looked at thunderbird myself yet, however next time I need
to test something in particular I'll install it)

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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Roberto Sanchez wrote:

Kent West wrote:

Kent West wrote:

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a 
lot of broken apps.
 

Steve Mayer wrote:

I removed the gsfonts-other package and the
 applications started working fine for me again.



Yep, that fixed everything! Thanks, Steve!

Why did it fix everything?  I don't even have gsfonts-other installed
and I still can't get the Debian packaged thunderbird to run.
-Roberto
I've been using thunderbird downloaded from mozilla.org, and unpacked to 
/usr/local/thunderbird, with a symlink at /usr/local/bin/thunderbird 
pointing to /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird.

As part of my upgrade this morning, I also installed mozilla-thunderbird 
from the Debian repositories. This version of thunderbird 
("mozilla-thunderbird &") errors out with:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> mozilla-thunderbird
find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/startup-hooks.d/*: No such file or 
directory

and then just dies. So I'd say there's still some brokenness in sid's 
version. I don't know what the fix is for that.

I've gone back to using Mozilla for now; although I like thunderbird and 
firebird, they both need just a little more polish before they replace 
the old monolithic Mozilla for me.But when I do use thunderbird, as 
implied above, I just use the non-sid version.

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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a 
lot of broken apps.
 

Steve Mayer wrote:

I removed the gsfonts-other package and the
 applications started working fine for me again.


Yep, that fixed everything! Thanks, Steve!

Why did it fix everything?  I don't even have gsfonts-other installed
and I still can't get the Debian packaged thunderbird to run.
-Roberto


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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Mayer
Kent,

  Glad to have helped.  I got lucky yesterday and ran across a bug
  report that looked like this problem.

Steve

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:28:17AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> 
> >I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot 
> >of broken apps.
> > 
> >
> 
> Steve Mayer wrote:
> 
> >Kent,
> >
> > If these apps are segfaulting, it may be the same issue that some of
> > us have been running into.  There seems to be a problem with the
> > libfreetype6 library and one (some) of the fonts included in the
> > gsfonts-other package.  I removed the gsfonts-other package and the
> > applications started working fine for me again.
> >
> >Steve
> > 
> >
> 
> Woo-hoo! That fixed thunderbird! I'll restart X and see if icewm works 
> again and my other apps. But it looks like that might have done it. 
> Thanks, Steve!
> 
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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote:

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a 
lot of broken apps.
 

Steve Mayer wrote:

I removed the gsfonts-other package and the
 applications started working fine for me again.

Yep, that fixed everything! Thanks, Steve!

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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote:
I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot 
of broken apps.

mozilla (from apt-get; an older moz from mozilla.org works)
thunderbird (from mozilla.org)
mozilla-thunderbird (from apt-get)
gnumeric
icewm
Since so many different apps are affected, I'm assuming the problem is 
in some common library. Any one have any work-arounds until the problems 
get fixed in sid (assuming that's really where they are)?

Thanks!

I am having problems with mozilla-thunderbird on both of my machines.
It will not even start, however the thunderbird binary from mozilla.org
works OK, with one caveat.  I can only start thunderbird once.  Once I
quit out of it, it will not start again unless I reboot my machine
(makes me feel like a windoze user ;).  I even try starting from the
command line, but get no errors or anything.  Just nothing.
-Roberto


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Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote:

I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot 
of broken apps.
 

Steve Mayer wrote:

Kent,

 If these apps are segfaulting, it may be the same issue that some of
 us have been running into.  There seems to be a problem with the
 libfreetype6 library and one (some) of the fonts included in the
 gsfonts-other package.  I removed the gsfonts-other package and the
 applications started working fine for me again.
Steve
 

Woo-hoo! That fixed thunderbird! I'll restart X and see if icewm works 
again and my other apps. But it looks like that might have done it. 
Thanks, Steve!

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Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning

2003-10-21 Thread Kent West
I did an apt-get upgrade on a sid box just now, and now there are a lot 
of broken apps.

mozilla (from apt-get; an older moz from mozilla.org works)
thunderbird (from mozilla.org)
mozilla-thunderbird (from apt-get)
gnumeric
icewm
Since so many different apps are affected, I'm assuming the problem is 
in some common library. Any one have any work-arounds until the problems 
get fixed in sid (assuming that's really where they are)?

Thanks!

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