[Gnome22-user] GNOME 2.2 Session Errors on Debian Woody

[James Strandboge]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 12:24, Michael G. Morey wrote:
> James Strandboge wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:31, Michael G. Morey wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>All,
> >>
> >>I'm running XFree86 4.3.0 (http://people.debian.org/~nobse/xfree86) on 
> >>Debian Woody, and I'm having a bit of difficulty starting a GNOME 
> >>session.  
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Do you get these errors after reboot?  How about under a new user?  If
> >you tried to upgrade from gnome1.4 settings, that may be your problem.
> >
> >Also, check out:
> >http://gnome22.alioth.debian.org/xfree86_43.html
> >
> >Though that page won't address your current problem.
> >
> >Jamie
> >
> >  
> >
> Jamie,
> 
> Thanks for the prompt reply.  I performed the upgrade in single-user 
> mode, and did reboot afterwards.  I have created a new user account, and 
> have tested using it.  The results were the same as for my existing 
> account.  I elected not to upgrade from GNOME 1.4 settings when 
> performing the upgrade.  I would appear to have the following installed:
> 
> --- working directory: /var/tmp/
> % dpkg -l | egrep '(fontconfig|freetype|libxft2)'
> ii  fontconfig     2.2.2-1.woody. generic font configuration library
> ii  libfontconfig1 2.2.2-1.woody. generic font configuration library 
> (shared l
> ii  libfreetype6   2.1.7-1.woody. FreeType 2 font engine, shared library 
> files
> ii  libfreetype6-d 2.1.7-1.woody. FreeType 2 font engine, development files
> ii  libxft2        2.1.2-5.woody. FreeType-based font drawing library for X
> 

These packages are not compatible with the backport.

> Done 16:23:15
> 
> I followed the instructions on
> 
> http://gnome22.alioth.debian.org/xfree86_43.html
> 
> and found that it was more trouble than it was worth.  I do appreciate 
> your suggestions, though.

If you want to run the backport, you will have to recompile pango
(gnome's font rendering engine).  freetype 2.1 is not backward
compatible with freetype 2.0.9 that is in woody, and it will break many
gnome2.2 and non-gnome2.2 packages.  See the debian-gtk-gnome archives
for details.  Your versions of fontconfig and libxft2 are also not
compatible.  

I provide (unsupported) packages at:
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/gnome2.2/pango_for_xfree86_43/

that may help you.

What is the output of:
dpkg -l|grep bonobo

and
dpkg -l|grep orbit


It should be something like:
ii  bonobo         1.0.20-1       The GNOME Bonobo System.
ii  bonobo-activat 2.2.2-1woody1  Bonobo Activation Framework
ii  gtkhtml3.0     3.0.10-0jds2   HTML rendering/editing library -
bonobo comp
ii  libbonobo-acti 2.2.2-1woody1  Bonobo Activation Framework --
development f
ii  libbonobo-acti 2.2.2-1woody1  Bonobo Activation Framework -- runtime
libra
ii  libbonobo2     1.0.20-1       The GNOME Bonobo library.
ii  libbonobo2-0   2.2.3-1woody1  Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonobo2-com 2.2.3-1woody1  Bonobo CORBA interfaces library --
developme
ii  libbonobo2-dev 2.2.3-1woody1  Bonobo CORBA interfaces library --
developme
ii  libbonobomm1.3 1.3.5-3woody2  C++ wrappers for libbonobo2 (shared
library)
ii  libbonoboui2-0 2.2.2-1woody1  The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbonoboui2-c 2.2.2-1woody1  The Bonobo UI library -- common files
ii  libbonoboui2-d 2.2.2-1woody1  The Bonobo UI library - development
files
ii  libbonobouimm1 1.3.5-3woody1  C++ wrappers for libbonoboui2 (shared
librar
[james@sirius james]$ dpkg -l|grep orbit
ii  liborbit-dev   0.5.16-1       Dev libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii  liborbit0      0.5.16-1       Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB
ii  liborbit2      2.6.2-1woody2  Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  liborbit2-dev  2.6.2-1woody2  Development files for ORBit2 - a CORBA
ORB
ii  liborbit2cpp6  1.3.6-2woody1  C++ CORBA mapping for ORBit2 (shared
library

Jamie

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