Gnome stopped working, maybe python error?

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ph03 · Post by **ph03** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:18 pm

Hi!
After updating a bunch of packages when I returned from holidays my gnome desktop stopped working at all. When loggin in I get an error, that gnome-session didn´t last even 10 sec., but without any information why. Perhaps the reason is that one of the packages that were emerged was the ne python2.5. I run python-update and everything seemes to work fine, but after I logged out of my session an re-logged-in nothing worked anymore. I cant even run progs like gnome-terminal from the XTerm safe-session, but I get no error messages why it doesn´t start anymore...

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$emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.0, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-suspend2-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-suspend2-r1 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile ML-40
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:30:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4, 2.5.1-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17.50.0.18
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal howl iconv ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mono mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis wma xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon v4l"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Majlo · Post by **Majlo** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:24 pm

Take a look to ~/.xsession-errors
Maybe there is some clue

Regards,
Mario

ph03 · Post by **ph03** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:38 pm

Majlo wrote:Take a look to ~/.xsession-errors
Maybe there is some clue

I´m sorry to say thats theres nothing informative in there... The programms (for example gnome-terminal) just exit without any error
message but don´t show up. Maybe I should uninstall python2.5 again and stay with 2.4? Dous 'python-update' also work backwards?

regards, ph03

Naib · Post by **Naib** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:13 pm

gnome-* and all other python-dependent apps run fine with python25 (it is a good update!!)

you just need to manage the upgrade a bit

1) python-update to re-emerge those apps that install python site-package files into python24 dir
2) revdep-rebuild to re-build those apps that are linked against python24.so

I updated fine and have removed python24 from my system and GNOME-2.18 is working fine \o/

ph03 · Post by **ph03** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 8:33 am

Naib wrote:you just need to manage the upgrade a bit

1) python-update to re-emerge those apps that install python site-package files into python24 dir
2) revdep-rebuild to re-build those apps that are linked against python24.so

I´m sorry, but this didn´t worked either. I had python2.5 installed into a new slot, so i unmerged python2.4 and tried a revdep-rebuild, but the script only found a few minor packages like blender linked against python24.so, but nothing crucial in relation to gnome... no i´ve gone back to python2.4 an are still 'python-updating'. I hope it will work again after that... the last resort is to setup my system again...

Naib · Post by **Naib** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:04 am

you shouldn't remove python24 until you have done a python-update AND a revdep-rebuild python-update relies on the old install being present to fn.
removing it and you have to rebuild the dep's youself when they break... ie alot of work