Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
Kent, Glad to have helped. I got lucky yesterday and ran across a bug report that looked like this problem.G 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! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Steve Mayer Oracle Corporation Project Lead1211 SW 5th Ave. Portland Development Center Suite 900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Portland, OR 97204 Phone: 503-525-3127 = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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) -- Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid. Proverbs 12:1 http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Lots of brokeness in Sid this morning
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. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
