Hello everybody,
Well,
problem is... After dropline deinstallation firefox doesn't work anymore.
I was trying to reinstall from slackpkg, then system said:
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--18:35:30-- http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/sla...i686-1.tgz.asc
=> `/var/cache/packages/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11-i686-1.tgz.asc'
Resolving slackware.cs.utah.edu... failed: Name or service not known.
ERROR - Package not installed! gpg error!

Searching for NEW configuration files
No .new files found.

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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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One or more errors occurred while slackpkg was running:

mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11-i686-1.tgz: gpg

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so, how can I fix this?

Thanks in advance

Looks like that particular server is down at the moment.

What errors do you get when trying to run firefox?

You could try to download mozilla package manually and then use installpkg to install it.

There is no error. It just doesn't work!
Message says:
Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.google.com. (an example)

I did try with firefox (from firefox.com), netscape, seamonkey. I guess they have the same engine, then... they didn't work.

Have you tried runnning it from a terminal and seeing if there are errors that way?

yeah, There's no error!

Ah, sorry I didn't see this before I posted last post. It sounds more like a dns/network issue. Probably why slackpkg isn't finding server.

Not very up on those issues but hopefully someone can help you.

I would probably try '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart' and maybe have a look at ifconfig.

I noticed any Mozilla engine doesn't work, but a different one does, I mean... konqueror, opera, lynx and so on.

Strange. The only thing that they have in common regarding networking is I think in the ~/.mozilla folder. You could try deleting/renaming it and see if that helps.

Apart from that try a new mirror with slackpkg and reinstall maybe.

There is no problem in the $HOME/.mozilla folder.

besides, slackpkg doesn't work anymore.

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root@slackware~# slackpkg update

Updating the package lists...
Downloading...
Downloading ChangeLog.txt...
--22:14:35-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s.../ChangeLog.txt
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/ChangeLog.txt'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.

No changes in ChangeLog.txt between your last update and now.
Do you really want to download all other files (y/N)? y

List of all files
Downloading patches/MANIFEST.bz2...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s...s/MANIFEST.bz2
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/patches-MANIFEST.bz2'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Downloading slackware/MANIFEST.bz2...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s...e/MANIFEST.bz2
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/slackware-MANIFEST.bz2'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Downloading extra/MANIFEST.bz2...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s...a/MANIFEST.bz2
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/extra-MANIFEST.bz2'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Downloading pasture/MANIFEST.bz2...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s...e/MANIFEST.bz2
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/pasture-MANIFEST.bz2'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Downloading testing/MANIFEST.bz2...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s...g/MANIFEST.bz2
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/testing-MANIFEST.bz2'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Package List
Downloading FILELIST.TXT...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s...t/FILELIST.TXT
=> `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/FILELIST.TXT'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Checksums
Downloading CHECKSUMS.md5...
--22:14:43-- http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/s.../CHECKSUMS.md5
=> `/var/lib/slackpkg/CHECKSUMS.md5'
Resolving mirror.pacific.net.au... failed: Name or service not known.
Package descriptions
Formatting lists to slackpkg style...
Package List
Package descriptions
cp: cannot stat `/tmp/slackpkg.pL9jyg/PACKAGES.TXT': No such file or directory
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What's wrong? Does anybody here had the same problem with dropline deinstallation?

For the records:

after Dropline deinstallation...

slackpkg doesn't work anymore, neither does pidgin. Deinstallation modifies basic slackware installation, firefox doesn't browse the web, HAL/messagebus doesn't work (/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus is gone, where did it go to?), and so on.

So, what do you guys say?

Do you have any of those:
http://wiki.droplinegnome.org/index....kages_for_2.20 or were they removed altogether?

You know, this is documented on the website.

In /etc/nsswitch.conf, change
back to
This wouldn't be necessary if Patrick had anything like post-removal script support in the packager.

That's it! firefox is running fine, thanks. So, what can I do to get HAL service (desktop automounting) back?
How to get /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus back?

Thanks in advance

rc.messagebus is part of the dbus package: http://packages.slackware.it/package...s-1.0.2-i486-3
HAL: http://packages.slackware.it/package...-0.5.10-i486-1

The site posted above also mentions dbus-glib being changed so you might need to reinstall that.