scribus won't start

wimbo · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: scribus won't start

hello,

i just emerged scribus. got no errors while compiling. but when i try to start the program i get this error:

hermanng · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject:

The symbols, your system is complaining about, are from qt.
Did you update qt after you emerged qt ? If yes, you should re-emerge scribus. If no, against which qt version was scribus linked ? I use scribus with qt-3 3.4-r8 without problems. You could have a look on the output of ldd

wimbo · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

i can't remember whether i've updated qt or not. probably not, since i don't know how to it. i'm using qt 3.3.4-r8. this is my output of ldd

hermanng · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

wimbo · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:

that is possible. i once installed an older version of qt because of some program i needed and didn't work with the versions wich where in portage. should i remerge qt?

hermanng · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject:

No, re-emerging is not necessary. If you don't need the old qt version on /usr/local any longer, you should remove it.

Anyway there seems something to be odd with your environment - the system obviously looks in /usr/local/qt/lib, which is unusual. Most probably you should have some file named 45qt3 in /etc/env.d/ (don't know the name exactly, the number may be different at your site). This file contains the correct path to your QT binaries and libs. But these are just the basis. env-update reads these files and generates an appropriate /etc/ld.so.conf, so if that file contains /usr/local/qt/lib, you could have a look in /etc/env.d and change/remove the appropriate file.

Alternatively you could set "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/qt/3/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" in your .profile. That should normally be sufficient to run scribus - but doesn't repair your broken environment.
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wimbo · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject:

i just re-emerged qt and scribus. it still doesn't work, unless i log in as root. this doesn't make any sense to me

hermanng · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

It's common that root has a slightly different environment from that of a normal user.

As I said, you should fix your environment in /etc/ld.so.conf. If "/usr/local/qt/lib" is not in there, you most probably have your old qt libraries linked from /usr/local/qt/lib to /usr/local/lib. In this case you should better remove these links.
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wimbo · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject:

i must be getting close to a solution, but i still don't have it.

i looked for the file /etc/env.d/45qt3 it says

hermanng · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

wimbo · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject:

[quote="hermanng" Your .profile looks good, but to check for links in /usr/local you should do a

hermanng · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:

Oh, I'm running out of ideas. The things you checked, look fine, and I assume, that any KDE programs are running correctly. And if there were any old handmade links in /usr/qt/3/lib/, they would have disappeared after your re-emerge of qt.
Yeah, I think, it can`t be a big thing and you are really close the solution, but I have no more idea of the missing link. Surely you have checked your private and global environment (aka ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile,/etc/bash/bashrc). Perhaps you could try to find the difference between your environment and the environment of root.
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