Files missing from desktop after sbopkg (Solved... sort of)
 

Hi,

I did a full update with slackpkg for 12.2 with no problems.

Then, I did a full update with 'sbopkg' and now I'm having issues.

This is for SW 12.2 x86 full install with XFCE Desktop.

I updated everything with sbopkg. All seemed to go well except for issues with OpenProj. So, I skipped that.

After updating with sbopkg yesterday and booting today, the OpenOffice files (or their shortcuts) are now missing from my XFCE desktop. I did some checking around this forum and on Google, so I tried looking in /tmp; The OO files are not there either.

I tried starting OO (the new version updated by sbopkg: OO 3.1) and looking under recent documents. The desktop files are not listed.

I then tried logging out of XFCE and starting KDE. The KDE desktop loads OK, but not only are my OO files missing, all desktop shortcut icons are missing in KDE (Home, System, etc.). They used to be there.

It seems that now either the desktops, or maybe my whole system, is unstable.

The OO Writer docs contained phone numbers of recent contacts... I have no backup.

I'd keep tinkering, but I'm afraid I might just mess up a salvagable situation.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks

You are using a third-party package manager to update third-party packages.
That is always changing Slackware where it's no longer the 'official' Slack.

You might get help from chess, or rworkman, or someone here. But you should
consult the source of sbopkg, also, if not first.

Thank you Bruce,

I looked over the archives at the mailing list
http://sbopkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sbopkg-users
as far back as October 2008. There is no mention.

I'm guessing that I'm just out of luck.

When I did this, I never expected files to disappear. The only ones I see missing are on the desktop. Everything else seems OK.

Thanks again,Bruce ! :)

This thread is for the alpha version 0.30. I installed and used version 0.27.4. My fault for not mentioning it.

I also tried 'xfs_check /dev/hda4' I received no errors. I think something actually deleted the files. If this was Windows, I'd suspect I'd been hacked.

chess, who started that thread, is the author of sbopkg.

You can find his homepage and his email by clicking on his
name in the box to the left there <<<.

Duh... I'm sorry.

Thanks.
-Joe

No problem, Joe. Sometimes things aren't as transparent to new users
as to guys who've been doing it a while.

Sure would like some gumbo. The wife pulled a few tricks and made some
jambalaya here yesterday. We don't have okra natively, but imported, and
there hasn't been any at the market this week. When it shows up again,
we'll have some gumbo. Yummm....

I emailed him. :)

Thanks,
-Joe

Actually, gumbo is part of my name. But, some day I'll actually try gumbo. Sounds great!

Thanks again :)

joegumbo,

I am not sure I understand a few things. You mention upgrading with slackpkg -- upgrading from what? Were you on a previous version of Slackware like 12.1? And I don't understand the KDE issue -- your KDE desktop icons are messed up? It sounds like something got messed up with your Slackware upgrade. Can you provide a bit more information?

I have not received reports similar to what you are describing. I know folks have used sbopkg to upgrade packages between slackware versions -- I did myself, in fact, when going from 12.1 to 12.2.

And when you mention OO.o files -- what files? Your saved documents? Where did you save them? What version of OO.o were you using before you upgraded it?

I've been running 12.2. I just used slackpkg to upgrade to the latest pkg versions. I did not upgrade SW version from a prior version. I used 'slackpkg upgrade-all'

All desktop icons are now missing from my kde desktop. The icons are still there on XFCE except for the Writer Documents. I'd be happy to provide any additional info you want.

Yes. They were Writer documents saved to the desktop for quick access. I believe I was using 3.0.1; sbopkg upgraded to 3.1.0.

I need to add one more thing as well...
Yesterday, I also installed the blobAndConquer slackbuild from SlackBuilds.org. I'm sorry... I just remembered. Late in the day here.

Hmm... I have a 12.2 system that I have upgraded with slackpkg along the way, and have also upgraded SBo packages including OO.o with sbopkg and have not encountered this. However, I do not have KDE installed on that system.

Let me try a few things to see if I can reproduce.

In the meantime, have you tried using a terminal and going into your ~/Desktop folder and see what is in there?

Thanks Chess.
-Joe

Btw, this seems strange to me. I do have icons on the XFCE desktop for Trash, Home, and File System. Again, KDE no longer has any desktop icons.

It's possible the desktop icons stuff is related to the way OO.o does things in a non-traditional way. I seem to recall that Robby had to do some workarounds or something in the OO.o SlackBuild for 12.1. Check the 12.1 OO.o Slackbuild and the README at SBo to see what I mean. Sbopkg calls 'upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new' when installing or upgrading a package. Maybe something related to the .desktop files and their symlinks in /opt got messed up when doing the OO.o upgrade. That does not explain the KDE icons going missing or the Writer documents themselves.

I'm still testing out a few things here.

Joe,

I tried to reproduce your situation by doing the following:

-Clean install of Slackware 12.2
-Logged in to Xfce and then KDE and made a few icons on the desktops
-Installed sbopkg 0.27.4
-Installed OO.o 3.0.1 from SBo SlackBuild
-Started Xfce and then KDE and created a few documents in OO Writer. Saved the documents in home, ~/Desktop, and /tmp
-Ran slackpkg update, slackpkg install-new, and slackpkg upgrade-all from a 12.2 mirror
-Ran sbopkg again and upgraded OO.o to 3.1.0
-Logged out and logged back in to Xfce and then KDE

All my Xfce and KDE icons, text files, and OO Writer documents were found. Everything was as-is.

At this point, I'm not sure what the problem was that you ran into. It is possible you might have run into a bug in the OO.o SlackBuild that was fixed in the March 22, 2009 SlackBuilds.org ChangeLog:

Other than that, I'm out of ideas. :/

It's not terribly clear whether you did a "full update" with *sbopkg* or with *slackpkg* - which is it? You mention both at various places...

Show me the output of this command:

Thanks Chess.
I thought it might be of use to output the list of sbo packages installed, so I started sbopkg, went to /tmp, and the copied the contents of /tmp/sbo/sbo_pkglist:

Robby, here's the output of the command:
I've started using slackpkg again to keep my system secure. So, I've started regularly using 'slackpkg update' and then 'slackpkg upgrade-all'.

This is the first time I used sbopkg on this install.

I emailed this to Chess, so I thought I should probably post this here as well.

If /tmp is involved in this, then I may have an answer...
Because it seemed that my /tmp directory wasn't being emptied on reboot, I did some searching on LQ and Googling and added the following line to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown a while back:

/usr/bin/find /tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0r /bin/rm -fr

I wonder if this might be the problem?

I'm not sure if $TMP = /tmp. But, if it is, then maybe when /tmp was emptied, then maybe that's how my desktop files got removed.

I just created a OO Writer document named 'Test' and saved to the desktop in XFCE. After rebooting, it was still there.

Just an update...

I think this may not be an sbopkg problem. My other OOo Writer files are garbled after updating to 3.1.

I figured that since SW13 is coming out pretty soon, I'd temporarily try a different distro for comparison: Mepis 8.

Earlier today, I tried viewing a Writer file that had tables. The tables showed on the screen, but would not print as part of the document.

Tonight, I deleted that file and copied it back from my external HD. Now, the tables show, but the formatting is all messed up. All the text, tables, jpeg, etc are superimposed on each other on the upper third of the page.

I tried different views.

Some of these files are several years old. I don't know which version of OO I originally made them with. They were saved in OpenOffice's native format.

On the plus side, my old Calc files seem to render OK.



Just a further update...

I uninstalled OpenOffice completely and then installed my old copy of StarOffice 8. All is well (except for the missing files from on the desktop.) These files may have been originally begun is StarOffice.... older than I thought :)