rawhide report: 20060809 changes - fixes to restore X login

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Gerry Tool wrote:
> Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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>> buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
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>> I think this mornings rawhide update broke some stuff bad, my machine
>> won't boot
>> into X anymore. I believe I have tracked down the problem to this..
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>> symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol
>> cairo_xlib_surface_create
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> Reading the fedora-devel-list article about this rawhide update, the
> problem is due to two packages, cairo-1.2.2-1 and pango-1.14.0-2.
> 
> To solve the problem, I downloaded the original FC6T2 packages from an
> FTP mirror
> (ftp://redhat.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/fedora/core/test/5.91/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS)
> to a directory on my FC6T2 partition using another Linux system
> installed on my hard drive.
> 
> These packages are cairo-1.2.0-2.i386.rpm and pango-1.13.4-2.i386.rpm.
> 
> Then I booted to FC6T2 and logged into a console with Alt-F1 as root,
> changed to the directory where I had saved them, and ran
> 
> rpm --oldpackage --force -ivh <the original package names>
> 
> This left me with two versions of each package installed, so I had to
> 
> rpm -e pango-1.14.0-2
> rpm -e cairo-1.2.2-1
> 
> This order is required because pango depends on the cairo version.
> 
> I then successfully booted into X in FC6T2.
> 
> Others probably know a less clumsy way not requiring the two rpm -e
> actions at the end.
> 
> Gerry
> 


There is already a fix out for this... see bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201844

And it should also be in the 20060810 rawhide build.

Kevin

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