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dropline-installer and kde

I run Slackware 11. I was trying to install dropline 2.16. I was using dropline-installer. All packages were downloaded without error. Then, during installation, at around package #100 (out of 226), there was an error:

Code:

Installation Error

install/doinst.sh: line 116: 24056 Segmentation fault

usr/bin/chroot /$ROOT /usr/bin/scroll keeper-update -n -p

var/lib/scrollkeeper -o

/usr/share/omf/gnome-netshtatus 2>/dev/null

So I'm dumped back at the basic dropline-installer menu. I run an uninstallation, and it works. So I try to install again, but right away I get this:

Code:

Oops, wget exited with status: 1

For some reason we were unable to download the master package index. There are a number of reasons this could occur, but we suggest you check your network connection and make sure the Dropline website is actually up, and then try again.

So I'm back at the basic dropline-installer menu. At this point, I check around for some help on the internet. I find that dropline-installer should not be run while X is running. Oops. I was in KDE at the time. So I figure if I jump out of KDE, I should be able to get the dropline-installer to work. I was wrong. Still gives the same error messages. But now that I've logged out of KDE, I can't get back in. Upon startx I get a black screen, with the following message in the upper left corner:

Code:

Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.

I click "okay", and I'm back at the terminal. No KDE. Above my prompt I see the following output:

Code:

startkde: Starting up...

ksplash: error while loading shared libraries: libart_lgpl_2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

ksplash: error while loading shared libraries: libart_lgpl_2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.

Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory

ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libart_lgpl_2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!

startkde: Shutting down...

Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory

Error: Can't contact kdeinit!

artsshell: error while loading shared libraries: libesd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

startkde: Running shutdown scripts...

startkde: Done.

So, I can't get into KDE. And can't get dropline-installer finish the installation. So...I'm stuck in the terminal. I guess dropline-installer was able to ruin KDE, but not able to replace it. My immediate goal: get KDE back! (I never intended on leaving KDE in the first place.)

Help?

A few things:

Have you checked to see whether the files it can't load still exist on your machine or not?
Try rebooting and/or rerunning xwmconfig.
Have you checked your internet connection?

FYI, dropline-installer does not ruin KDE, but a failed installation might.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Have you checked to see whether the files it can't load still exist on your machine or not?

If I log in as root, switch to the root directory, and give the command "find -name *libart_lgpl*", I get four results. They all show up in logs as either "removed_packages" or "removed_scripts."

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Have you checked your internet connection?

No. How do I check this from the terminal?

So you should reinstall the slackware libart_lgpl package. It looks like you may need to install the esound package as well. For your reference, here is a list of Slack 11 packages replaced by DLG 2.16:

Code:

atk

cairo

desktop-file-utils

dhcp

esound

fontconfig

freetype

gaim

gimp

gimp-help

glib2

gnet

gnome-icon-theme

gnupg

gtk+2

gucharmap

hicolor-icon-theme

kernel-modules

kernel-source

libart_lgpl

libglade

libgsf

libgtkhtml

libidl

librsvg

libwpd

libxml2

libxslt

mozilla-firefox

mozilla-thunderbird

openldap

pango

php

pkgconfig

shadow

shared-mime-info

startup-notification

wine

xchat

xine-lib

xscreensaver

FYI, DLG 2.18 for Slack 12 only replaces 8 packages.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

No. How do I check this from the terminal?

Try killing two birds with one stone by entering:

Code:

wget ftp://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/slackware/l/libart_lgpl-2.3.17-i486-1.tgz

It should download one of the packages you need to reinstall.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Try rebooting and/or rerunning xwmconfig.

From what I can see, rebooting changed nothing.

Playing around in xwmconfig:

1. XFCE doesn't work.

2. Fluxbox works, at least somewhat. I've never used it before, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to look like. But I can get it running, get some terminal-friendly stuff like emacs and calc running. However, no web browersers or anything like that work. The fluxbox startup log shows some errors similar to the kde startup errors.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Try killing two birds with one stone

The wget command you gave me isn't working. I get:

Code:

Resolving slackware.cs.utah.edu... failed: Name or service not known.

Seems like my internet connection probably got messed up when I botched the dropline installation? That would explain why when I run dropline-installer I get the error about being unable to download the master package index.

So, how do I check my internet connection from the terminal?

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

FYI, DLG 2.18 for Slack 12 only replaces 8 packages.

Thanks for the list of packages I will need. The package replacement list for 2.18 looks pretty good right now!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

So, how do I check my internet connection from the terminal?

Please post the output of "ifconfig" and "ifconfig -a". If you know your router's LAN address, try to ping it.

In the meantime, try reinstalling the 2 slackware packages I mentioned from your install media so you can get kde back up.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

In the meantime, try reinstalling the 2 slackware packages I mentioned from your install media so you can get kde back up.

I'm having trouble getting my Slackware 11 dvd mounted. Is it possible that when I failed with dropline-installer something in my system was damaged that would prevent me from mounting the dvd? (I can still mount my cdrom drive fine.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

I'm not sure I understand. Do you have one drive or two? You can mount a cd but not the dvd? What is the command you use and the error message?

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Please post the output of "ifconfig" and "ifconfig -a".

The results are identical:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:31:E5:F5:8C  

          inet addr:66.233.52.178  Bcast:66.233.63.255  Mask:255.255.240.0

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:31457 (30.7 KiB)  TX bytes:3138 (3.0 KiB)

          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Do you have one drive or two? You can mount a cd but not the dvd? What is the command you use and the error message?

I have two drives. The cdrom drive mounts fine. The dvd drive is not mounting. The commands I use are:

Code:

mount /mnt/cdrom

mount /mnt/dvd

The fstab entries:

Code:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto  noauto,users,ro  0  0

/dev/scd0  /mnt/cdrom  auto  noauto,users,ro  0  0

The result of "/mnt/dvd":

Code:

mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device

I could swear this is how I've always been doing it, and it was working before.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

The results are identical:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:31:E5:F5:8C  

          inet addr:66.233.52.178  Bcast:66.233.63.255  Mask:255.255.240.0

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:193 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:31457 (30.7 KiB)  TX bytes:3138 (3.0 KiB)

          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

How do you connect to the internet? It looks like you have some kind of direct connection.

Try "ping -c3 google.com". If that doesn't work, try "ping -c3 64.233.167.99"

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

If you know your router's LAN address, try to ping it.

I don't know it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

I have two drives. The cdrom drive mounts fine. The dvd drive is not mounting. The commands I use are:

Code:

mount /mnt/cdrom

mount /mnt/dvd

The fstab entries:

Code:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  auto  noauto,users,ro  0  0

/dev/scd0  /mnt/cdrom  auto  noauto,users,ro  0  0

The result of "/mnt/dvd":

Code:

mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device

I could swear this is how I've always been doing it, and it was working before.

The plot thickens...

Do you have a type in your fstab? You show both /dev/cdrom and /dev/scd0 pointing to /mnt/cdrom.

Is the dvd drive a scsi drive? Try "cat /proc/scsi/scsi".

I don't see how an aborted DLG installation could have affected this.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

How do you connect to the internet? It looks like you have some kind of direct connection.

Try "ping -c3 google.com". If that doesn't work, try "ping -c3 64.233.167.99"

Brian

My internet connection is directly to a Clearwire modem.

The output of "ping -c3 google.com":

Code:

PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=91.8 ms

64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=153 ms

64 bytes from py-in-f99.google.com (64.233.167.99): icmp_seq=3 ttl=241 time=92.8 ms



--- google.com ping statistics ---

3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2028ms

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 91.802/112.629/153.212/28.700 ms

So you are connected to the internet and dns works fine. Double-check that you typed the wget command properly.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Double-check that you typed the wget command properly.

Yeah, it's identical to what you typed. Strange it won't work.

Yes!!!

Libart was indeed the problem. I finally was able to get it installed, and kde is up and running once again. Now I get to work my way through that list of packages you mentioned. But at least we got it going again, so I won't be so stressed.

Just for the record: I hope nothing I said made it sound like I blame Dropline. I know that the problem was my own errors during installation.

Thanks for all your help Brian. You were constantly patient and clear.

Update:

So I hunted down all of the remaining packages from the list provided earlier. No problems with installing them. So things should be back to normal?

Well... a couple of programs still won't start. Both GIMP and Firefox are not running. I issue the command to start Firefox, and nothing happens. I issue the command to start GIMP, and I see a bouncing, spinning hourglass for 15 seconds, and then it disappears.

Any one know what couldn've happened to cause this?

removing DLG will in fact screw up : wget, firefox, xchat, ???, etc
good news is, you still have the DLG packages you downloaded local (or should)
as root

Code:

cd /var/cache/dropline-installer

installpkg lib*.tgz

installpkg p*.tgz

install *.tgz

There's other ways around getting the libs to install first, but this way is the easiest way to get around it, and shortest answer to give.
And yes I know, this will cause some packages to install twice.
But if you start with an installpkg *.tgz . You'll get errors about libraries as things install and you'll end up with a nerfed DLG.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

Try running them from the command line. Usually you will get some error messages to guide you.

Brian

I realized I was starting Firefox and GIMP from the ALT+F2 Run Command box. Stupid me, of course I wasn't going to know what the problem was. So this morning I started them from konsole to capture the standard error.

Firefox:

Code:

/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

GIMP:

Code:

gimp: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I installpkg'd pango-1.12 from the Slackware 11 disk. Now both Firefox and GIMP appear to be working 100%. Crossing my fingers no other issues pop up...

Quote:

Originally Posted by KhaoSlacker

removing DLG will in fact screw up : wget, firefox, xchat, ???, etc
good news is, you still have the DLG packages you downloaded local (or should)
as root

Code:

cd /var/cache/dropline-installer

installpkg lib*.tgz

installpkg p*.tgz

install *.tgz

I'm not clear about what exactly this will do. Will it patch up KDE using some of the Dropline libraries, to get KDE running smoothly again? Or will it install Dropline?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

I'm not clear about what exactly this will do. Will it patch up KDE using some of the Dropline libraries, to get KDE running smoothly again? Or will it install Dropline?

It will install DLG components. One thing I would say is that, if you do this, you use "upgradepkg" instead of "installpkg", otherwise you will end up with two different installed versions of all the "replaced" packages. I think that it is better to use the dropline-installer to do the installation.

Is wget still not working? Try it with some other sites. You can use wget to download any http or ftp url, try a few.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Is wget still not working? Try it with some other sites. You can use wget to download any http or ftp url, try a few.

Yes, wget is still not working. Everything I try gives this message:

Code:

Resolving [host name]... failed: Name or service not known.

KhaoSlacker's post mentioned uninstalling Dropline will bring down wget.

Another issue:

Whenever I login to KDE, I now immediately get the KDE Crash Handler telling me that Soundserver (artsd) crashed. This never happened before, so it must be related.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

Whenever I login to KDE, I now immediately get the KDE Crash Handler telling me that Soundserver (artsd) crashed.

Here's the standard error for running artsd in konsole:

Code:

unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-root/kohlhass.spruce.com-2164-46bdd9bb)

There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...

... cleaned 5 unused mcop global references.

At this point, the command just hangs. I'm not returned to the prompt, and there's no further output.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

Here's the standard error for running artsd in konsole:

Code:

unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-root/kohlhass.spruce.com-2164-46bdd9bb)

There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active...

... cleaned 5 unused mcop global references.

At this point, the command just hangs. I'm not returned to the prompt, and there's no further output.

Perhaps it doesn't hang? Is it the case that this is just artsd running in the terminal? If I check the Process Table when it's "hung", there are two entries for artsd. One sits directly under init, the other under init > konsole > bash. If I close konsole, both dissapear.

When you reinstalled all of the Slackware packages on the list, did you use "installpkg" or "upgradepkg"? You may have more than one version of these packages installed on your computer, and that could be causing these problems. Check /var/log/packages for duplicate packages. To see all of the dropline packages you could do, eg. "ls /var/log/packages | grep "dl$". Check to be sure that you don't still have a DLG version of any of the reinstalled packages.

Brian

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

I used "installpkg". So had I used "upgradepkg", the dropline versions would have been removed? Okay. So it looks like I will be okay if I go through and remove the Dropline duplicates?

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Check /var/log/packages for duplicate packages.

This is what I have listed:

Code:

a2ps-4.13b-i386-2

aaa_base-11.0.0-noarch-2

aaa_elflibs-11.0.0-i486-9

aalib-1.4rc5-i386-1

acct-6.3.2-i386-1

acl-2.2.39_1-i486-1

acpid-1.0.4-i486-2

alsa-driver-1.0.11_2.4.33.3-i486-1

alsa-lib-1.0.11-i486-1

alsa-oss-1.0.11-i486-1

alsa-utils-1.0.11-i486-2

amarok-1.4.3-i486-4

amp-0.7.6-i386-1

apache-1.3.37-i486-2

apmd-3.0.2-i386-1

apr-1.2.7-i486-1

apr-util-1.2.7-i486-1

arts-1.5.4-i486-2

ash-0.4.0-i386-1

aspell-0.60.4-i486-1

aspell-en-6.0_0-noarch-4

at-3.1.10-i486-1

atk-1.10.3-i486-2

attr-2.4.32_1-i486-1

audiofile-0.2.6-i486-1

aumix-2.8-i486-1

autoconf-2.60-noarch-1

autofs-3.1.7-i386-1

automake-1.9.6-noarch-1

bash-3.1.017-i486-1

bc-1.06-i486-3

bin-11.0-i486-3

bin86-0.16.15-i486-1

bind-9.3.2_P1-i486-1

binutils-2.15.92.0.2-i486-3

bison-2.1-i486-1

bitchx-1.1-i486-5

blackbox-0.65.0-i386-1

bootp-2.4.3-i486-2

bpe-2.01.00-i486-1

bsd-games-2.13-i486-8

byacc-1.9-i386-1

bzip2-1.0.3-i486-3

cairo-1.0.4-i486-1

ccache-2.4-i486-1

cdparanoia-IIIalpha9.8-i486-2

cdrdao-1.2.1-i486-1

cdrtools-2.01-i486-1

clisp-2.39-i486-1

coreutils-5.97-i486-1

cpio-2.5-i386-1

cracklib-2.8.9-i686-5dl

cscope-15.5-i486-2

cups-1.1.23-i486-4

curl-7.15.5-i486-1

cvs-1.11.22-i486-1

cxxlibs-6.0.3-i486-1

cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-i486-1

db42-4.2.52-i486-3

db44-4.4.20-i486-1

dcron-2.3.3-i486-5

dejavu-ttf-2.10-noarch-1

desktop-file-utils-0.11-i486-1

devs-2.3.1-noarch-25

dhcp-3.0.4-i486-2

dhcpcd-2.0.4-i486-2

diffstat-1.43-i486-1

diffutils-2.8.1-i486-3

distcc-2.18.3-i486-2

dmapi-2.2.5_1-i486-1

dnsmasq-2.33-i486-1

docbook-4.4-noarch-1dl

doxygen-1.4.7-i486-1

dvd+rw-tools-6.1-i486-1

e2fsprogs-1.38-i486-2

elm-2.5.8-i486-1

elvis-2.2_0-i486-2

emacs-21.4a-i486-3

emacs-info-21.4a-noarch-1

emacs-leim-21.4-noarch-1

emacs-lisp-21.4a-noarch-1

emacs-misc-21.4a-noarch-1

emacs-nox-21.4a-i486-2

enscript-1.6.3-i386-1

epic4-2.4-i486-1

esound-0.2.36-i486-1

espgs-8.15.3svn185-i486-1

etc-11.0-noarch-2

expat-1.95.8-i486-1

expect-5.43.0-i486-1

fetchmail-6.3.4-i486-1

findutils-4.2.28-i486-1

flac-1.1.2-i486-2

flex-2.5.4a-i486-3

floppy-5.4-i386-3

fluxbox-1.0rc2-i486-1

fontconfig-2.2.3-i486-2

fontconfig-2.3.2-i686-3dl

freetype-2.1.9-i486-1

freetype-2.2.1-i686-2dl

fribidi-0.10.7-i486-1

fvwm-2.4.19-i486-5

gaim-1.5.0-i486-2

gawk-3.1.5-i486-3

gcc-3.4.6-i486-1

gcc-g++-3.4.6-i486-1

gcc-g77-3.4.6-i486-1

gcc-gnat-3.4.6-i486-1

gcc-java-3.4.6-i486-1

gcc-objc-3.4.6-i486-1

gd-2.0.33-i486-1

gdb-6.5-i486-1

gdbm-1.8.3-i486-3

gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-i486-1

genpower-1.0.5-i486-1

getmail-4.6.3-noarch-1

gettext-0.15-i486-1

gettext-tools-0.15-i486-1

getty-ps-2.1.0b-i486-1

gftp-2.0.18-i486-2

gimp-2.2.13-i486-1

gimp-help-2-0.8-noarch-1

gimp-print-4.2.7-i486-2

git-1.4.2.1-i486-1

gkrellm-2.2.9-i486-1

glib-1.2.10-i386-2

glib2-2.10.3-i486-1

glibc-2.3.6-i486-6

glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-6

glibc-profile-2.3.6-i486-6

glibc-solibs-2.3.6-i486-6

glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-6

glut-3.7-i486-1

gmp-4.2.1-i486-1

gnet-2.0.7-i486-3

gnome-doc-utils-0.8.0-i686-1dl

gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2-noarch-1

gnu-gs-fonts-6.0-noarch-1

gnuchess-5.07-i486-2

gnupg-1.4.5-i486-1

gnuplot-4.0.0-i486-2

gnutls-1.4.4-i686-3dl

gpm-1.20.1-i486-2

grep-2.5-i486-3

groff-1.19.2-i486-1

gtk+-1.2.10-i386-3

gtk+2-2.8.20-i486-1

gucharmap-1.4.1-i486-2

guile-1.8.0-i486-1

gv-3.5.8-i386-1

gxine-0.5.7-i486-1

gzip-1.3.5-i486-1

hdparm-6.6-i486-1

hfsutils-3.2.6-i486-3

hicolor-icon-theme-0.9-noarch-2

hotplug-2004_09_23-noarch-11

hpijs-2.1.4-i486-1

htdig-3.1.6-i386-2

imagemagick-6.2.8_8-i486-2

imapd-4.64-i486-3

imlib-1.9.15-i486-1

indent-2.2.9-i386-1

inetd-1.79s-i486-7

infozip-5.52-i486-1

iproute2-2.6.16_060323-i486-1

iptables-1.3.5-i486-2

iptraf-2.7.0-i386-1

irssi-0.8.10a-i486-4

isapnptools-1.26-i386-1

ispell-3.2.06-i386-1

jed-0.99_18-i486-3

jfsutils-1.1.11-i486-1

joe-3.5-i486-1

jove-4.16.0.61-i386-1

jre-1_5_0_09-i586-1

k3b-0.12.17-i486-1

kbd-1.12-i486-2

kdeaccessibility-3.5.4-i486-1

kdeaddons-3.5.4-i486-1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

To see all of the dropline packages you could do, eg. "ls /var/log/packages | grep "dl$". Check to be sure that you don't still have a DLG version of any of the reinstalled packages.

This is what I get:

Code:

cracklib-2.8.9-i686-5dl

docbook-4.4-noarch-1dl

fontconfig-2.3.2-i686-3dl

freetype-2.2.1-i686-2dl

gnome-doc-utils-0.8.0-i686-1dl

gnutls-1.4.4-i686-3dl

krb5-1.6-i686-1dl

libgcrypt-1.2.3-i686-2dl

libgpg-error-1.3-i686-2dl

libtasn1-0.3.5-i686-2dl

libxml2-2.6.27-i686-1dl

libxslt-1.1.20-i686-1dl

pam-0.99.6.2-i686-4dl

pkgconfig-0.21-i686-3dl

shadow-4.0.18.1-i686-2dl

Quote:

Originally Posted by sythe

I used "installpkg". So had I used "upgradepkg", the dropline versions would have been removed? Okay. So it looks like I will be okay if I go through and remove the Dropline duplicates?

I would remove all of the duplicates (removepkg) and then reinstall the slack packages. You might try "upgradepkg --reinstall slackpackage.tgz", that may work, too. Test it on one of the dupes and see.

Of course, the safest way would just be to reinstall Slackware :-)

Maybe I should ask, so I don't mess THIS part up too. It is recommended that I remove all of the ".dl" packages? And the best way to do this would be with the "removepkg" command, just working down the list one by one?

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

I'm not clear on how to identify a duplicate. The ".dl" packages don't seem to have any equivalents. Can you give me an example of a duplicate you see in my /var/log/packages?

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCarey

Of course, the safest way would just be to reinstall Slackware :-)

Maybe today is a good day to move to 12.0!

For example, you have two versions of libxml2.

If stability and saving time is your goal, go ahead and move to Slack 12 or reinstall 11. If you want to keep learning, try an upgrade to Slack 12.

Brian

Amazing.

Three whole pages of futzing around that don't get anywhere near to the actual problem, which is the resolver order.

Look in /etc/nsswitch.conf

Change the line that says...

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

...to simply say...

hosts: files dns

Something changed (at least from when I first learned about nsswitch.conf) in the way glibc deals with missing libs which causes that run to snap right in two when mdns4_minimal returns with an error (because it's gone). I'm hoping to find time to dig through glibc's docs to make it so this fails gracefully (like it originally did when I tested it) when the library has been uninstalled before we have a 2.18 release.

I'll remind that you did have a backup of that file that you could have just restored (...and this is the main reason why).

By the way, the next time you want to post something so crass as the topic of a thread, try using "Dropline killed my cat!". It's much more shocking. :p