[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem solved but not all well

Wed Apr 18 15:52:41 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 13:46 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 18/04/12 13:09, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> I'm pretty sure it's KDM that failing and subsequently bringing X
+>> down with it. I'll see if I can reproduce with KDM here.
+>>
+> kdm.log was >5000 lines and full of identical lines, so I mv'd it.  The
+> attached is a clean kdm.log.  Those 29 lines have the answer :-)
+
+Indeed it does!
+
+> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
+> Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40800) with this library (version 0x40801)
+> KCrash: Application 'kdmgreet' crashing...
+> KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly
+> Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40800) with this library (version 0x40801)
+> Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
+
+
+Seems like there is some Qt mixup here.
+
+Can you figure out what library it's talking about? It can be quite hard
+to know what's wrong, but here are some tips:
+
+
+1. Make sure that "urpmi --auto-update" definitely returns nothing to be
+upgraded.
+
+2. Does "urpme --auto-orphans" work? Be careful as it may suggest
+removing more than it should. If the suggestions look valid enough, does
+this help the issue? If so, can you provide a list of the rpms removes?
+
+3. Assuming things are still bust, run "urpmq --not-available | sort".
+This will show you packages that are installed on the machine that are
+NOT available via the media. You'll typically get old libraries here
+(i.e. ones with old major versions that are no longer needed. These are
+deliberately not removed as users may have compiled their own programs
+against such libraries and we don't want to break such setups.
+
+Anyway, this might suggest some things. You should probably remove those
+things that look non-Qt related first and confirm that things are still
+broken after their removal. Then remove any remaining Qt related looking
+things and confirm that it fixes things. If the problem goes away at any
+step (first or second), please let us know which packages your removed
+in that step so we know which one is to blame.
+
+4. If things are still broken, do you have an old self-compiled version
+of Qt or similar in /usr/local/ or /opt/ that might be messing with things?
+
+That should get you closer!
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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