Gnome-unstable (Gnome3) installation fails

badhat · 2011-04-07 02:27:10

I'm having difficulty installing the new Gnome 3. After a fresh installation and updating my system, I enable all repositories and add the mentioned repo from the Gnome 3 Wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3

After following the wiki and trying to do
pacman -S gnome-unstable/gnome

I am returned the error:
"error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gtk2: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache exists in filesystem
libwnck: /usr/bin/wnck-urgency-monitor exists in filesystem
libwnck: /usr/bin/wnckprop exists in filesystem
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded."

I tried installing libwnck with pacman -S libwnck and that was the error that was produced the next time I tried getting gnome-unstable.

Before installing the libwnck package the error was similar (failed to commit transaction) and the installation failed. Any suggestions? With Gnome 3 released now, is it still in the unstable repository or should I be using something else?

wonder · 2011-04-07 03:59:05

@badhat read the wiki again. The repo order is very important

The_infinite_loop · 2011-04-07 08:23:54

I'm sorry but the repo order does not help, I get a similar error:
"error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gtk-update-icon-cache: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache exists in filesystem
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded."
Thanks.

Edit: Needed to update manually the gtk2 package.

Last edited by The_infinite_loop (2011-04-07 08:29:04)

nDray · 2011-04-07 09:01:06

I just installed without any problem. (Upgraded)!

aericson · 2011-04-07 09:18:30

badhat wrote:

I'm having difficulty installing the new Gnome 3. After a fresh installation and updating my system, I enable all repositories and add the mentioned repo from the Gnome 3 Wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3
After following the wiki and trying to do
pacman -S gnome-unstable/gnome
I am returned the error:
"error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gtk2: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache exists in filesystem
libwnck: /usr/bin/wnck-urgency-monitor exists in filesystem
libwnck: /usr/bin/wnckprop exists in filesystem
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded."
I tried installing libwnck with pacman -S libwnck and that was the error that was produced the next time I tried getting gnome-unstable.
Before installing the libwnck package the error was similar (failed to commit transaction) and the installation failed. Any suggestions? With Gnome 3 released now, is it still in the unstable repository or should I be using something else?

I could be wrong but from what I see, 'pacman -S gnome-unstable/gnome' is supposed to be used on new installs. If you already have gnome(2) you are supposed to upgrade it as it says on the wiki.
Upgrade: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … gnome_2.32
New Install: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … new_system
AFAIK they are two different cases.

delcypher · 2011-04-07 09:22:45

Hmm I'm having a similar problem to badhat.

I'm trying to do a fresh install. I currently have xfce4 installed (I appear to have some gnome dependencies).

[root@dan-netbook etc]# pacman -R gnome-panel-bonobo
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: libgail-gnome: requires gnome-panel-bonobo
:: xfce4-xfapplet-plugin: requires gnome-panel-bonobo

I didn't want to run with the (-Rscn) options as that seemed pretty dangerous and likely to break my xfce4 installation.

I modified my pacman.conf file as in the wiki (I modified the wiki there too because it wasn't that clear).

then tried...

# pacman -S gnome-unstable/gnome
:: There are 25 members in group gnome:
:: Repository gnome-unstable
   1) at-spi2-atk  2) at-spi2-core  3) epiphany  4) gnome-applets
   5) gnome-backgrounds  6) gnome-control-center  7) gnome-desktop
   8) gnome-icon-theme  9) gnome-icon-theme-extras
   10) gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  11) gnome-keyring  12) gnome-media
   13) gnome-panel  14) gnome-screensaver  15) gnome-session
   16) gnome-settings-daemon  17) gnome-shell  18) gnome-terminal
   19) gnome-themes-standard  20) gnome-user-docs  21) metacity  22) mutter
   23) nautilus  24) notification-daemon  25) yelp

Enter a selection (default=all):

The wiki needs to be CLEARER. Do I need to install everything or just gnome-shell ?

Anyway I just tried gnome-shell and I received the message...

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gtk-update-icon-cache: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I also noticed that I can't perform an upgrade. Now that the testing repo is enabled does that mean I'll get everything from testing, I just want to try out gnome3.0, I don't want to try out every new and unstable package from the testing repo.

# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronising package databases...
 gnome-unstable           31.9K  480.1K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
 testing                  26.4K  474.8K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
 core                     37.4K  415.7K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
 extra                   470.8K 1374.3K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
 community               437.6K 1396.7K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gnome-panel-bonobo: requires gnome-panel=2.32.1

gnome-3.0 has been released. Is there no gnome-3.0 package in the extra repo?

Last edited by delcypher (2011-04-07 09:27:55)

wonder · 2011-04-07 10:53:24

@elcypher read the wiki

really guys read the wiki and all file conflicts exist because you don't have the right order in pacman.conf

The right order is:

gnome-unstable,testing,core,extra

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_3

Last edited by wonder (2011-04-07 10:54:51)

delcypher · 2011-04-07 11:23:57

wonder wrote:

@elcypher read the wiki
really guys read the wiki and all file conflicts exist because you don't have the right order in pacman.conf
The right order is:
gnome-unstable,testing,core,extra

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_3

Did you read my post?? See the output of me running "pacman -Syyu", that IS the right order.

I am approaching this as a fresh install as I don't have the gnome desktop installed explicitly. However I do have a few gnome things ( network-manager-applet gnome-keyring gnome-panel gnome-panel-bonobo etc...)installed so I can use NetworkManager in xfce. Should I be treating this as an "upgrade"?

wonder · 2011-04-07 11:26:34

@delcypher you failed also to read the wiki

the wiki suggest to do pacman -Rnsc gnome-panel-bonobo and not a simple -R

MohammadR · 2011-04-07 11:55:23

i have installed gnome3 but now nothing run currently when i run nautilus from terminal i get this error :

nautilus : symbol lookup error : /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.o : undefined symbol : g_application_get_type

what should i do now ? i can not do anything ...

delcypher · 2011-04-07 12:03:12

That error message means that nautilus expected something from the gtk3 library (g_application_get_type - presumably that's a function or method name) but your version of the gtk3 library doesn't have it meaning you have the wrong gtk3 library installed or cached.

If you run the following (in a bash shell) you will be able to see if ld has any complaints about your installed library.

ldd $(which nautilus)

How you got in that state I'm not really sure. You could try running ldconfig as root to see if that fixes things but other than that I can't really help.

delcypher · 2011-04-07 12:13:21

wonder wrote:

@delcypher you failed also to read the wiki
the wiki suggest to do pacman -Rnsc gnome-panel-bonobo and not a simple -R

I did read that I just deliberately didn't use the -Rnsc option as that has a high risk of breaking some things I currently have installed. I need to clean up my the gnome dependencies I have on my machine. I'll give it another go once I've done that.

MohammadR · 2011-04-07 12:34:59

delcypher wrote:

That error message means that nautilus expected something from the gtk3 library (g_application_get_type - presumably that's a function or method name) but your version of the gtk3 library doesn't have it meaning you have the wrong gtk3 library installed or cached.
If you run the following (in a bash shell) you will be able to see if ld has any complaints about your installed library.
ldd $(which nautilus)
How you got in that state I'm not really sure. You could try running ldconfig as root to see if that fixes things but other than that I can't really help.

this is result :

[mohammad@Mohammad ~]$ sudo ldd $(which nautilus)
Password: 
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb78e0000)
    libnautilus-extension.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnautilus-extension.so.1 (0xb78ad000)
    libgailutil-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgailutil-3.so.0 (0xb78a5000)
    libgnome-desktop-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-3.so.0 (0xb7880000)
    libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 (0xb744b000)
    libgdk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0 (0xb73d4000)
    libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb73b9000)
    libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb73ae000)
    libcairo-gobject.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo-gobject.so.2 (0xb73a8000)
    libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7308000)
    libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb72c6000)
    libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb71ab000)
    libnotify.so.4 => /usr/lib/libnotify.so.4 (0xb71a5000)
    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb7188000)
    libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb709d000)
    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7057000)
    libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7054000)
    libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7050000)
    libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb6f81000)
    libexempi.so.3 => /usr/lib/libexempi.so.3 (0xb6e93000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb6e6c000)
    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6e53000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb6d07000)
    libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6ce0000)
    libpng14.so.14 => /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 (0xb6cba000)
    libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6c35000)
    libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb6c06000)
    librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb6bfd000)
    libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb6bef000)
    libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb6bec000)
    libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb6bdf000)
    libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6bd7000)
    libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb6bce000)
    libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb6bcb000)
    libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb6bc8000)
    libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb6bc3000)
    libstartup-notification-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 (0xb6bba000)
    libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xb6b4f000)
    libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb6b47000)
    libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb6b32000)
    libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb6b19000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb6b15000)
    libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0xb6ad8000)
    libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xb6ac3000)
    libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6a9b000)
    libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb69ab000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb78e1000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb698f000)
    libxcb-aux.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-aux.so.0 (0xb698c000)
    libxcb-event.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-event.so.1 (0xb6989000)
    libxcb-atom.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-atom.so.1 (0xb6984000)
    libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb697d000)
    libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb6966000)
    libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6963000)
    libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb695e000)
    libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6959000)
[mohammad@Mohammad ~]$ sudo ldconfig 
[mohammad@Mohammad ~]$ nautilus
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0: undefined symbol: g_application_get_type

wonder · 2011-04-07 12:40:08

@MohammadR pacman -Q gtk3 and pacman -Qm

delcypher · 2011-04-07 12:40:53

libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 (0xb744b000)

Oh well that didn't help. By the way you shouldn't run ldd $(which nautilus) as root as root permissions aren't needed to do that.

I would try and see what package owns /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 and see if that tells you anything interesting.

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0

gustavoimago · 2011-04-07 13:20:31

gnome3 the unstable repository is the final gnome3 which was released yesterday?

I install, I'll have the final gnome3?

tks

MohammadR · 2011-04-07 15:12:34

here are outputs :

[mohammad@Mohammad ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 
/usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 is owned by gtk3 3.0.8-1
[mohammad@Mohammad ~]$ pacman -Q gtk3
gtk3 3.0.8-1
[mohammad@Mohammad ~]$ pacman -Qm
bicon 0.2.0-3
bmon 2.1.0-5
boomerang 0.3-1
cpufreqd 2.4.2-1
f4l 0.2.1-6
fipy 2.1.1-2
gloobus-preview-bzr 262-2
google-talkplugin 1.5.1-1
gtk-engine-equinox 1.30.2-2
gtk-theme-divergenceiv-a-new-hope 0.7.9-1
jalali-calendar 1.7.1-1
kompozer 0.8b3-1
mdk3 v6-1
mplayer-fribidi 32492-1
nautilus-mount-image 0.2.0-2
nautilus-share 0.7.2-5
nautilus-wallpaper 0.1-4
nload 0.7.2-2
notification-daemon-engine-coco-git 20100427-1
notification-daemon-engine-nodoka-git 20101107-1
openssl-compatibility 0.9.8-3
orta-gtk-theme 1.4.1-4
pacman-cage 2.9.8.2-5
pidgin-birthday-reminder 1.7-1
pidgin-elementary-tray-icons 1-1
pkgman r148-1
pysparse 1.1.1-2
python-nautilus 0.7.0-4
slurpy 2.2.0-5
starcal2 1.9.0-1

badhat · 2011-04-07 19:08:24

After updating earlier I looked again at the wiki and it's changed. Now Gnome 3 is in testing according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3/.

When I try to use the new wiki directions (after removing gnome-unstable repo) I get the following error for a fresh install:

sudo pacman -S testing/gnome
error: target not found: gnome

wonder · 2011-04-07 19:15:04

@badhat wait mirror to sync. if you really want it now, just use the gnome-unstable repo . is the same

Last edited by wonder (2011-04-07 19:16:03)

soaliar · 2011-04-07 22:01:21

MohammadR wrote:

i have installed gnome3 but now nothing run currently when i run nautilus from terminal i get this error :
nautilus : symbol lookup error : /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.o : undefined symbol : g_application_get_type

what should i do now ? i can not do anything ...

Same problem here...

MarianoC · 2011-04-08 01:38:39

MohammadR wrote:

i have installed gnome3 but now nothing run currently when i run nautilus from terminal i get this error :
nautilus : symbol lookup error : /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.o : undefined symbol : g_application_get_type

what should i do now ? i can not do anything ...

Installing glib2 from testing everything works fine.

wonder · 2011-04-08 05:24:43

@MarianoC you have testing after core? that's the only explanation.

testing is always above core no matter what since is already in pacman.conf commented

NekySerbia · 2011-04-08 15:11:45

I got pretty much same errors. Here are my files.

pacman.conf

[testing]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#[community-testing]
## Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

I believe repo order is as it should be. Then I did yaourt -Syy to sync everything, and then yaourt -S testing/gnome testing/gnome-extra . This is the error output:

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(188/188) checking package integrity               [######################] 100%
(188/188) checking for file conflicts              [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gtk-update-icon-cache: /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache exists in filesystem
libwnck3: /usr/bin/wnck-urgency-monitor exists in filesystem
libwnck3: /usr/bin/wnckprop exists in filesystem
vte-common: /usr/lib/vte/gnome-pty-helper exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I use Compiz as standalone WM, but I have some GTK packages installed.

wonder · 2011-04-08 15:20:54

why are you using yaourt -S testing/gnome testing/gnome-extra i really don't get it.

pacman -Syu is all you need to do from an existing 2.32 gnome

no wonder you guys have so many issues. glib2 never gets updated this way because i didn't add versioned dependencies

NekySerbia · 2011-04-08 15:28:20

I didn't have Gnome before this, just some gtk apps (lxappearance, Thunderbird, deadbeef etc.). pacman -Syu now downloads additional files, will post here later.

Also, that's what wiki said (testing/gnome and testing/gnome-extra)

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