I have just updated my Gentoo system and now the folders in Gnome will not open. The rest of the system seems to work OK. However, when I click on a folder in the drop down Places menu it tries to open the folder then gives up and acts as if I had never asked. No error messages.

Any clues? What log should I look in for errors?

Cheers

Tim.

Can you open Nautilus?

If not, what are the BASH errors listed when you try this command?

Hi, thanks for the quick reply.

$ nautilus gives me the following error in BASH:

Fred ~ # nautilus
nautilus: error while loading shared libraries: libexif.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Fred ~ #

I did an emerge --search libexif and got:

Fred ~ # emerge --search libexif
Searching...
[ Results for search key : libexif ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

* media-libs/libexif
Latest version available: 0.6.15
Latest version installed: 0.6.15
Size of files: 661 kB
Homepage: http://libexif.sourceforge.net/
Description: Library for parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data
License: LGPL-2.1

* media-libs/libexif-gtk
Latest version available: 0.3.5-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 387 kB
Homepage: http://libexif.sf.net
Description: GTK+ frontend to the libexif library (parsing, editing, and saving EXIF data)
License: GPL-2


Fred ~ #

I tried re-emerging libexif and got the usual stuff plus this:


>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Original instance of package unmerged safely.
* If you are upgrading from a version of libexif older than 0.6.13-r2,
* you will need to do the following to rebuild dependencies:
* # revdep-rebuild --soname libexif.so.9
* # revdep-rebuild --soname libexif.so.10
*
* Note, it is actually safe to create a symlink from libexif.so.10 to
* libexif.so.12 if you need to during the update.
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> media-libs/libexif-0.6.15 merged.
>>> Recording media-libs/libexif in "world" favorites file...

>>> No packages selected for removal by clean
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
Fred ~ #

What does rev-dep rebuild do? I tried it as a command but my system did not know it.

I also emerged libexif-gtk but that did not solve the problem - probably nothing to do with it.


I then investigated the bit about symlinking from libexif.so.10 to libexif.so.12 and got this:

Fred ~ # cd /
Fred / # find -name libexif.so.10
Fred / # find -name libexif.so.12
./usr/lib/libexif.so.12
Fred / #

So I created a symlink called libexif.so.10 to libexif.so.12

Fred lib # ln -s libexif.so.12 libexif.so.10
Fred lib #

I tried nautilus again and got:

Fred lib # cd /
Fred / # nautilus
calling convert '/tmp/.gnome_thumbnail.TRB7TT.0DN7TT' +matte -thumbnail 128x128 png:'/tmp/.gnome_thumbnail.TRB7TT'


plus a nice little window onto the root home directory!!



All working fine now thank you very much for your help.

Tim.

Pretty neato! Looks like you were able to use the BASH error hint to troubleshoot and fix your system. That's great!

Just had a bit of a telling-off from my friends on the Gentoo Forum! Creating a symlink is a bad idea and will cause big problems later.

Revdep-Rebuild comes as part of Gentoolkit which can be emerged quite easily. I deleted the symlink and ran revdep-rebuild. That fixed the problem properly.

revdep-rebuild solved it for me on Gentoo also...

Just don't forgot to restart X afterward