On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1,
^^^^^^^err, meant to write "symptoms" there.
Sorry, I'll proofread more carefully next time....)
> then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my home directory, I
> found that gnome was complaining about not being able to find a certain
> shared library file. (Can't remember the name--something with pixbuf in
> it somewhere.) I did dpkg -S <name of the file it couldn't find>, it
> turned out that file was provided by a package that it claimed was
> installed (can't remember the name of the package, either, sorry). But
> the file didn't seem to be there. So, I apt-get remove'd that package (in
> the process, it ended up removing a large chunk of my gnome installation I
> think), then apt-get install'ed task-helix-gnome. All is now well. Don't
> ask me....---Bruce Fields
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> > I just did an apt-get upgrade, my first in about 10 days. I'm now
> > unable to log in (except if I set my GDM session to Debian, which is
> > how I got on to send this message).
> >
> > My system is potato with a little woody to support GNOME. I use Helix
> > gnome. After the upgrade the system locked up and started
> > beeping--this seems to be standard when updating sawfish.
> > Unfortunately, when I restarted I had the problem described above.
> > When I enter a user name and password the login screen disappears, and
> > the monitor makes a click as if resyncing. The login screen then
> > comes back on.
> >
> > I'd appreciate any advice on where to look for the source of the
> > problem.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > System info:
> > Linux wheat 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
> >
> > Here's the start of the upgrade session, and then my apt.sources:
> >
> > Script started on Tue Dec 12 01:03:09 2000
> > wheat:/usr/local/rootlog# date
> > Tue Dec 12 01:03:11 PST 2000
> > wheat:/usr/local/rootlog# apt-get -qu upgrade
> > Reading Package Lists...
> > Building Dependency Tree...
> > The following packages have been kept back
> > gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session
> > gnome-terminal libgnomeprint11
> > The following packages will be upgraded
> > cpp-doc cron dnsutils ed elvis-tiny gcc-doc gnome-bin gnome-control-center
> > gnome-dev-doc gnome-faq gnome-help-data gnome-libs-data gs libart-dev
> > libart2 libcapplet0 libgdk-pixbuf2 libgnome-dev libgnome32
> > libgnomesupport0
> > libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkxmhtml1
> > libncurses5 libncurses5-dev liborbit-dev liborbit0 libpanel-applet0
> > libreadlineg2 librep9 libzvt2 modutils ncurses-base ncurses-bin
> > ncurses-term
> > netscape-base-4 netscape-base-4-libc5 orbit rep rep-gtk rstart rstartd
> > sawfish sawfish-gnome sgml-tools ssh ssh-askpass-gnome xbase-clients xext
> > xf86setup xfree86-common xfs xlib6 xlib6g xlib6g-dev xmms xnest xproxy
> > xprt
> > xserver-common xserver-svga xserver-vga16 xsm xterm xvfb
> > 67 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 24.9MB of archives. After unpacking 945kB will be used.
> >
> >
> > [Nothing unusual in the rest of the log]
> >
> > [sources.list]
> > deb-src cdrom:[Debian beta #2 bf 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/main/source/
> > deb cdrom:[Debian beta #2 bf 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/
> > deb cdrom:[Debian beta #2 bf 2.2.3]/
> > Debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/
> > deb cdrom:[beta Debian 2.2.3]/ Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/
> > deb file:/ms/k/download/debian potato main
> > #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main non-free contrib
> > #deb http://security.debian.org potato updates
> >
> > # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
> > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> > deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ potato/non-US main non-free contrib
> >
> > #Helix
> > deb file:/usr/local/download/Helix woody main
> > deb-src file:/usr/local/download/Helix woody main
> > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> > deb-src http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> >
>
