Bug#617679: Solved

2011-03-30 Thread TONY FOLLEY
It took some searching but I found the solution. If you search for libglib you will find more than one version, the 'other' version comes from a manually installed program and is no longer needed, just delete it. In my case, the installed version is /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and the altern

Bug#617679: more info

2011-03-30 Thread TONY FOLLEY
My apologies Phil, I misread your email and put exit 0 at the end of the file, not the start. When I put it at the start it allows me to progress but I still end up with gconf2 failing to install. All in all I have about 5 packages (including hal) that I cannot force to install so I think this f

Bug#617679: shared-mime-info problems

2011-03-29 Thread TONY FOLLEY
Thanks for the input Phil but that didn't work for me. I tried a clean backup recovery and went through the same process to install. When shared-mime-info failed, I edited shared-mime-info.postinst and added the exit 0 to the end of the file. I still get the same error and I end up with a numbe

Bug#617679: Upgrading to Squeeze fails at shared-mime-info

2011-03-10 Thread Tony Folley
. This seems to trace back to shared-mime-info which fails with the error 'undefined symbol: g_malloc0_n'. I have tried the squeeze version (0.71), the sid version (0.90) and also compiling from sources (0.90), all fail with the same error. Thank you, Tony Folley -- System Informati