Just installed yet another FC5 on the other machine. 873MB of updates on dialup, but thankfully I'd saved the /var/cache/apt/archives from the other FC5 installs, so only had to suffer 496MB of downloads. Apart from some sort of transaction error when the updates finished, which I was unable to save as I got a power out. We'll forget about the error. It was something to do with pixbuf loader.
Anyway FC5 booted up ok when the power came back, and I ran apt-get update again just to check out whether everything was ok. I've got a big bunch of deletes from apt-get update, and the last entry is. W: There are multiple versions of "librsvg2" in your system.
True. Looking in synaptic I have libsrvg2#2.14.2-1, and libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 .
/usr/lib shows librsvg-2.so.2 pointing to librsvg-2.so.2.14.4
Is it safe to just remove the earlier librsvg2#2.14.2-1 version from the system?
There were no 3rd party repo's active when I did the updating, and both packages are listed as from (download.fedora.redhat.com)
Nigel.
Nigel Henry wrote:
Anyway FC5 booted up ok when the power came back, and I ran apt-get update again just to check out whether everything was ok. I've got a big bunch of deletes from apt-get update, and the last entry is. W: There are multiple versions of "librsvg2" in your system.
True. Looking in synaptic I have libsrvg2#2.14.2-1, and libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 .
/usr/lib shows librsvg-2.so.2 pointing to librsvg-2.so.2.14.4
Is it safe to just remove the earlier librsvg2#2.14.2-1 version from the system?
Check libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 with rpm -V. If there's a problem, re-install it (with rpm -U --oldpackage).
Then try removing the earlier package and see what happens (with rpm -e or rpm -e --test). If anything complains, see if you can sort it out. If RPM lets you, you're very unlikely to see any real problems.
In any case, this is hardly a system-critical library.
Hope this helps,
James.
On Saturday 30 September 2006 23:27, James Wilkinson wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
Anyway FC5 booted up ok when the power came back, and I ran apt-get update again just to check out whether everything was ok. I've got a big bunch of deletes from apt-get update, and the last entry is. W: There are multiple versions of "librsvg2" in your system.
True. Looking in synaptic I have libsrvg2#2.14.2-1, and libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 .
/usr/lib shows librsvg-2.so.2 pointing to librsvg-2.so.2.14.4
Is it safe to just remove the earlier librsvg2#2.14.2-1 version from the system?
Check libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 with rpm -V. If there's a problem, re-install it (with rpm -U --oldpackage).
Then try removing the earlier package and see what happens (with rpm -e or rpm -e --test). If anything complains, see if you can sort it out. If RPM lets you, you're very unlikely to see any real problems.
In any case, this is hardly a system-critical library.
Hope this helps,
James.
Problems here. I can't remove the earlier version, and the later version wants to remove half the OS along with it as deps. I've now got also since the updates, a problem gaining access to Gdm, as on my latest post to the list. Gdm lists librsvg2 as a dependency, so I think that the lack of access to gdm has got a lot to do with the 2 versions of librsvg2 being installed.
There is something really screwed up with the updates here.
The only way I can get into anything graphical at the moment is to boot into init3, and then startX which goes straight into Gnome. That's ok, but I use KDE, and don't know my way around Gnome so well.
This is the output error message from synaptic, when I just tried to remove the earlier version of librsvg2, and is almost the same message I got when all the updates had been installed.
While preparing for installation:
/usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such file or directory error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 W: Some errors occurred while running transaction
I have no problem is saving the /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive to save DL'ing them again, but if I reinstall FC5, which has nothing on it, I can just see the same problem arising when applying the updates again.
On the fly update:
I've just removed Gdm, which has removed a load of other stuff, then reinstalled Gdm, which upon completion gave me the same pixbuf errors as I've posted above. I then shutdown, rebooted, and now have a login screen. Not the same one as on the initial install of FC5, but who cares. It's quite plain, but gives me the option to choose Gnome or KDE.
I must admit that I'm a bit puzzled. I still have 2 versions of librsvg2 installed, and cannot remove either of them, but at least I have gdm back, and am able to get into KDE.
I've used FC since FC1, and still have FC1 on both machines, I use from day to day FC2 with no problems, even though both are no longer supported. All I can say is that updates shouldn't prevent you booting up. FC5 isn't succeeding at that, at the moment.
Anyway. I've got got FC5 working again, so, so be it.
Nigel.
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