On Saturday 30 September 2006 23:27, James Wilkinson wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > Anyway FC5 booted up ok when the power came back, and I ran apt-get > > update again just to check out whether everything was ok. I've got a big > > bunch of deletes from apt-get update, and the last entry is. > > W: There are multiple versions of "librsvg2" in your system. > > > > True. Looking in synaptic I have libsrvg2#2.14.2-1, and > > libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 . > > > > /usr/lib shows librsvg-2.so.2 pointing to librsvg-2.so.2.14.4 > > > > Is it safe to just remove the earlier librsvg2#2.14.2-1 version from the > > system? > > Check libsrvg2#2.14.4-1.fc5.1 with rpm -V. If there's a problem, > re-install it (with rpm -U --oldpackage). > > Then try removing the earlier package and see what happens (with rpm -e > or rpm -e --test). If anything complains, see if you can sort it out. If > RPM lets you, you're very unlikely to see any real problems. > > In any case, this is hardly a system-critical library. > > Hope this helps, > > James. Problems here. I can't remove the earlier version, and the later version wants to remove half the OS along with it as deps. I've now got also since the updates, a problem gaining access to Gdm, as on my latest post to the list. Gdm lists librsvg2 as a dependency, so I think that the lack of access to gdm has got a lot to do with the 2 versions of librsvg2 being installed. There is something really screwed up with the updates here. The only way I can get into anything graphical at the moment is to boot into init3, and then startX which goes straight into Gnome. That's ok, but I use KDE, and don't know my way around Gnome so well. This is the output error message from synaptic, when I just tried to remove the earlier version of librsvg2, and is almost the same message I got when all the updates had been installed. While preparing for installation: /usr/bin/update-gdk-pixbuf-loaders: line 27: /etc/gtk-2.0/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf.loaders: No such file or directory error: %postun(librsvg2-2.14.2-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 W: Some errors occurred while running transaction I have no problem is saving the /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive to save DL'ing them again, but if I reinstall FC5, which has nothing on it, I can just see the same problem arising when applying the updates again. On the fly update: I've just removed Gdm, which has removed a load of other stuff, then reinstalled Gdm, which upon completion gave me the same pixbuf errors as I've posted above. I then shutdown, rebooted, and now have a login screen. Not the same one as on the initial install of FC5, but who cares. It's quite plain, but gives me the option to choose Gnome or KDE. I must admit that I'm a bit puzzled. I still have 2 versions of librsvg2 installed, and cannot remove either of them, but at least I have gdm back, and am able to get into KDE. I've used FC since FC1, and still have FC1 on both machines, I use from day to day FC2 with no problems, even though both are no longer supported. All I can say is that updates shouldn't prevent you booting up. FC5 isn't succeeding at that, at the moment. Anyway. I've got got FC5 working again, so, so be it. Nigel. > > -- > E-mail: james@ | We're beginning to see the results of bringing a > rubber aprilcottage.co.uk | chicken to a nuclear battle. > > | -- "Whitefang", on groklaw.net
