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Thus spake Rémi Cardona on Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 12:56:45AM CDT |
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> Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> >Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:34:48PM CDT |
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> >>John, |
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> >>I got rid of "gailtreeview.c" errors and crashes by unmerging gail as |
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> >>well as libgail and at-spi which I unmerged at your direction and which |
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> >>got rid of most of the nasty crashes and freezes in gnome-panel. I get |
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> >>warnings from Gnome and gtk, but everything seems to be stable. |
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> >I take it back. Evolution won't run without gail. xchat-2 won't run |
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> >_with_ it. |
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> > |
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> Gtkhtml (which is used by evo) needs gail. I don't know if your issue |
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> with xchat is related to gail because I've been running xchat with gail |
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> on my system for as long as I can remember. |
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There are a number of problems that show up only on my account on the box, |
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which was working fine prior to last weekend when I upgraded to gnome 2.14, |
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after which the system had serious problems. I worked on the system for |
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several hours with guidance from John Laliberte and we found one legacy gnome |
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problem with the "start-here:///" scheme which was still in my local configs |
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and causing a crash (freeze). Subsequently, we eliminated a freeze-causing |
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memory deallocation problem (calling free() on a NULL pointer, apparenlty), by |
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unmerging at-spi. I was left with a usable system and could then run evolution |
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and _most_ other apps on which I depend for my work environment. There were |
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still some gnome-panel crashes and app crashes (related to assertion failures |
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in gail's gailtreeview.c) which I could overcome by removing gail - but I |
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backed out on that because evolution is more important than xchat :-) |
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There are other apps that fail as well. I keep discovering them. |
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> Does revdep-rebuild -pv show any inconsistencies ? |
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No. (other than at-spi and libgail-gnome being missing, which I know about) |
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Rémi, your note re. running xchat with gail is significant. As I've said here |
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before, I have a test account on the box which is essentially virgin, and if I |
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log into that account (gnome desktop) these problems don't occur, even with |
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gail, libgail-gnome and at-spi merged. Everything seems to run OK. |
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The quickest way for me to go, at this point, would be to salvage my contact |
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list and appointment calendar from evolution (all my email is stored on imap |
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servers elsewhere), salvage my galeon bookmarks, make extensive notes on my |
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desktop setup, and start with a fresh account filespace. This would probably |
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solve _my_ problem, but there may well be systemic problems that mine are |
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illustrating, and John would like to work these through to see if he can find |
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out what's happening. I'm happy to spend the extra time to do this if it will |
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help make gnome a better piece in the long run. |
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With the exception of having temporarily unmerged the 2 packages noted above, |
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my basic system is quite stock. On the other hand, my personal account space |
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goes back through several versions of gnome, and has a lot of legacy |
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configuration things in it. These seem to be the things which are causing |
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problems. |
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