FireFox and G<whatever> problems

dr0p · 2009-01-18 19:41:32

Okay, so I recently reinstalled my / because my friend was a jerk and messed it up. Ever since I haven't been able to use some really necessary programs. Anything related to gnome (gedit, gnome-terminal) gives an error about libORBit-2.so.0 isn't found, firefox says that it can't find a compatable GRE with the version 1.9.0.5. Any help for these problems?

solarwind · 2009-01-18 19:54:42

dr0p wrote:

Okay, so I recently reinstalled my / because my friend was a jerk and messed it up. Ever since I haven't been able to use some really necessary programs. Anything related to gnome (gedit, gnome-terminal) gives an error about libORBit-2.so.0 isn't found, firefox says that it can't find a compatable GRE with the version 1.9.0.5. Any help for these problems?

What I would do in this situation is boot the installer CD and reinstall everything from the live shell OVER your / partition. It's not a system reinstall, I would just install all the packages over the ones that are on your system. pacman has an option where you can specify the target root directory. Sorry I can't explain better, I'm in a rush.

Again, this wont do a reinstall of the entire system, it would reinstall the packages only so everything would be back in place. All your configuration files will still be intact and your system would function as you last left it (but I would back up /etc and /home/user/.<stuff> anyway, but I'm just paranoid).

Just out of curiosity, how exactly did you "reinstall"?

Last edited by solarwind (2009-01-18 19:56:37)

dr0p · 2009-01-18 20:32:06

solarwind wrote:

dr0p wrote:
Okay, so I recently reinstalled my / because my friend was a jerk and messed it up. Ever since I haven't been able to use some really necessary programs. Anything related to gnome (gedit, gnome-terminal) gives an error about libORBit-2.so.0 isn't found, firefox says that it can't find a compatable GRE with the version 1.9.0.5. Any help for these problems?
What I would do in this situation is boot the installer CD and reinstall everything from the live shell OVER your / partition. It's not a system reinstall, I would just install all the packages over the ones that are on your system. pacman has an option where you can specify the target root directory. Sorry I can't explain better, I'm in a rush.
Again, this wont do a reinstall of the entire system, it would reinstall the packages only so everything would be back in place. All your configuration files will still be intact and your system would function as you last left it (but I would back up /etc and /home/user/.<stuff> anyway, but I'm just paranoid).
Just out of curiosity, how exactly did you "reinstall"?

That's the thing... this is a completely fresh install, I wiped the partition and just completely restarted from scratch, so I am really confused as to why there are any errors.

skottish · 2009-01-18 20:40:34

libORBit-2.so.0 is owned by orbit2 (2.14.16). Try (re)installing that:

pacman -Sy orbit2

dr0p · 2009-01-18 20:56:22

skottish wrote:

libORBit-2.so.0 is owned by orbit2 (2.14.16). Try (re)installing that:
pacman -Sy orbit2

Errors occur, not sure why. Output: http://topazes.net/pacman_out

skottish · 2009-01-18 21:01:59

Looks like your pacman database is all screwed up. Try to rebuild it with a simple pacman -Suy first.

dr0p · 2009-01-18 23:53:07

skottish wrote:

Looks like your pacman database is all screwed up. Try to rebuild it with a simple pacman -Suy first.

Everything is up to date...

SamC · 2009-01-19 00:16:10

I'm pretty sure the command to rebuild is pacman -Syy, in fact.

dr0p · 2009-01-19 00:28:25

SamC wrote:

I'm pretty sure the command to rebuild is pacman -Syy, in fact.

That just updates the package lists, but either way that's not the problem.

LTSmash · 2009-01-19 01:05:56

That's because pacman believes orbit2 is installed when it's not, just remove it's entries from the database and install again. (perhaps installing with pacman -Sf orbit2 could help too)

Last edited by LTSmash (2009-01-19 01:07:08)

dr0p · 2009-01-19 02:55:39

LTSmash wrote:

That's because pacman believes orbit2 is installed when it's not, just remove it's entries from the database and install again. (perhaps installing with pacman -Sf orbit2 could help too)

*sigh* So easy to fix, anyways, now does anyone know what firefox is talking about when it says no GRE?

Allan · 2009-01-19 03:09:14

Looking at your error messages, there are also mentions of policykit and xulrunner. I would reinstall those too. xulrunner may be the solution to you firefox problem.

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