KDE can't alter screensaver anymore (libnvidia-tls problem)

GTrax · 11-20-2006, 05:00 AM

My system is Mepis 6.0, which uses the Ubuntu engine at its heart.
When I do Menu => settings => Appearance & Themes => Screen Saver.. I get an error box..

Quote:

Configure - KDE Control Module
The specified library screensaver could not be found.

The diagnostics is:
libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data

Possible reasons:

An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module

You have old third party modules lying around.

Check these points carefully and try and remove the module mentioned in the error message. if this fails, consider contacting your distributer or packager.

The original screensaver choice (FireWorks GL) actually works OK if I wait out the timeout. The Nvidia driver that provides graphics acceleration for OpenGL apps is installed and works fine. Unless I get a little help, "removing modules" in my case is likely to break more than it fixes. Thanks for any suggestions.

GTrax · 11-20-2006, 10:45 AM

Still digging to find it - I begin to suspect it might have something to do with Xen, the virtual machine environment application. I notice that a expected directory /lib/tls has become /lib/tls.disabled.

I still don't know what I'm doing, but I think anyone experimenting with Xen virtualiser might expect that the setup instructions can undo some things.

I never know which stuff is there for a good reason, and what we can live without.
:|

cam34 · 12-07-2006, 10:55 PM

try the mepis forum they are pretty helpful