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#1 2008-03-26 23:57:36

orasis
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Gnome 2.22 breakage

Hi,

I installed Gnome 2.22 from 'testing' but finding it too slow compared to 2.20 I decided to go back to the latter. My problem now is that I uninstalled the former Gnome with 'pacman -Rs'(d)' and all seemed to be well, I re-commented the testing repository and so forth and proceeded to install the stable version of Gnome... and on comes the fun.

Now from Pacman I receive messages about libs in testing, which I suppose are still installed being 'newer' than whatever Gnome is asking for and blah blah blah.

Nautilus will not run with this error message - symbol lookup error: nautilus: undefined symbol: eel_art_irect_empty and of course there are surely more...

My question is how can I un-install EVERYTHING regarding Gnome (except for the settings in my home file.) including all of the 'newer' libs?

I tried both -Rs and -Rd to no avail... so I sort of have a broken version of Gnome, which I will fix in time manually.. but I'd rather a nice quick package solution if possible wink

Thanks in advance for your reply and time.


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#2 2008-03-26 23:59:38

kastor
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

pacman -Rc gnome gnome-extra ?

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#3 2008-03-27 00:02:05

orasis
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

I have not tried that yet. Hopefully it works smile

Thanks.


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#4 2008-03-27 00:30:11

orasis
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

Nope.. unfortunately the same thing occurs - the Gnome desktop and apps go but all of the 'newer' libraries remain which conflict with certain 2.20 apps such as Nautilus...


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#5 2008-03-27 00:33:11

kastor
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

and with -Rcs  ?

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#6 2008-03-27 00:38:52

orasis
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

Well I will have to try that, and I will, as soon as I am done my extensive reading session on Pacman wink

I would suggest that people, unless they really do want to 'test' heh, stay away from Gnome 2.22 at the moment...


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#7 2008-03-27 06:04:10

kwidzin
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From: Gdansk, Poland
Registered: 2007-02-04
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

Well, I installed 2.22 few days ago without problems. Only one is numlock status failure.

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#8 2008-03-28 15:40:20

freakcode
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From: São Paulo - Brazil
Registered: 2007-11-03
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Re: Gnome 2.22 breakage

orasis wrote:

Well I will have to try that, and I will, as soon as I am done my extensive reading session on Pacman wink

I would suggest that people, unless they really do want to 'test' heh, stay away from Gnome 2.22 at the moment...

The problem is not Gnome 2.22. The problems is that you failed to fallback Gnome 2.22 AND all the upgraded libs, and now you can't install Gnome 2.20 because libraries conflict. I guess you can fix this by commenting out [testing] and doing a databse sync.

Then, you find all the packages installed from [testing] that are no longer referenced with:

pacman -Qm

I guess it will be mostly libraries. You can uninstall those packages, and then install plain Gnome from [extra] and all dependencies with:

pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

Good luck!

Last edited by freakcode (2008-03-28 15:44:42)

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