cannot run any browser

jpff · November 2, 2013, 4:35pm

xenakis:/jpff # rpm -qi seamonkey
Name : seamonkey
Version : 2.21
Release : 1.21.2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 31 Oct 2013 18:29:24 GMT
Group : Productivity/Networking/Web/Browsers
Size : 64266400
License : MPL-2.0
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Fri 27 Sep 2013 14:39:49 BST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : seamonkey-2.21-1.21.2.src.rpm
Build Date : Thu 19 Sep 2013 17:58:06 BST
Build Host : cloud137
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : openSUSE:Submitting bug reports - openSUSE
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey
Summary : The successor of the Mozilla Application Suite
Description :
Originally based on the Netscape Communicator source, the SeaMonkey
project grew to be the most advanced web browser currently available.
It supports new techniques like CSS2, MathML, SVG, XML, transparent
PNGs, and its look is fully theme-able.
Distribution: openSUSE 12.3

Something must try to load that 12.2 32bit /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so, so you must have some leftover from 12.2 (the 12.3 packages are all compiled against pango-1.8.0).
Gtk2 itself maybe?

rpm -qi libgtk-2_0-0 libgtk-2_0-0-32bit
Or maybe pango-tools?

rpm -qi pango-tools pango-tools-32bit

xenakis:/jpff # rpm -qi libgtk-2_0-0 libgtk-2_0-0-32bit
Name : libgtk-2_0-0
Version : 2.24.18
Release : 2.4.2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 27 May 2013 14:00:35 BST
Group : System/Libraries
Size : 7838231
License : LGPL-2.1+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Thu 23 May 2013 14:51:47 BST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : gtk2-2.24.18-2.4.2.src.rpm
Build Date : Tue 21 May 2013 11:02:20 BST
Build Host : cloud113
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : openSUSE:Submitting bug reports - openSUSE
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : The GTK+ Project
Summary : The GTK+ toolkit library (version 2)
Description :
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects
ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites.
Distribution: openSUSE 12.3
package libgtk-2_0-0-32bit is not installed
xenakis:/jpff # rpm -qi pango-tools pango-tools-32bit
Name : pango-tools
Version : 1.32.5
Release : 3.4.2
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 11 Apr 2013 16:01:38 BST
Group : System/Libraries
Size : 66301
License : LGPL-2.1+
Signature : RSA/SHA256, Wed 10 Apr 2013 10:04:17 BST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : pango-1.32.5-3.4.2.src.rpm
Build Date : Mon 01 Apr 2013 14:02:49 BST
Build Host : build14
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : openSUSE:Submitting bug reports - openSUSE
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : Introduction - Pango
Summary : Library for Layout and Rendering of Text – Tools
Description :
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. It can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed.

Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+.
Distribution: openSUSE 12.3
package pango-tools-32bit is not installed

And maybe have a look in the package list in YaST->Software Management (Click on View->Repositories) if there are packages with a red version number and uninstall or “Update Unconditionally” them.

Or try to run “sudo zypper dup” and post a list of the conflicts you get.

Not sure if I can detect red (colour blind). But all looked the same (red==black usually)

zypper dup
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See ‘man zypper’ for more information about this command.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
gmplayer gstreamer-lang

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
lame libavcodec52 libavfilter1 libavformat52 libavutil50 libmp3lame0
libswscale0

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
get_iplayer k3b k3b-lang libjack0 libjack-devel libmad0

The following packages are going to change vendor:
get_iplayer
obs://build.opensuse.org/home:malcolmlewis -> PackMan :: Startseite
k3b
openSUSE -> PackMan :: Startseite
k3b-lang
openSUSE -> PackMan :: Startseite
libjack0
PackMan :: Startseite -> openSUSE
libjack-devel
PackMan :: Startseite -> openSUSE

7 packages to upgrade, 6 to downgrade, 2 new, 5 to change vendor.
Overall download size: 13.6 MiB. After the operation, additional 1.2 MiB will
be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): n
xenakis:/jpff #

BTW whatever happened to xpdf? It does not work and does not seem to be in repositories

wolfi323 · November 2, 2013, 6:12pm

Hm, that’s a pity. I expect some 12.2 package that’s left over and should be shown in red instead of black.

Well, try to select “Unmaintained packages” as secondary filter in that view (on the left side, below the repos list).
Does that show any packages?
Maybe post a list or just uninstall all of them (right-click on the package list and select “All in this List”->“Uninstall”).

zypper dup
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See ‘man zypper’ for more information about this command.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Computing distribution upgrade…

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
gmplayer gstreamer-lang

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
lame libavcodec52 libavfilter1 libavformat52 libavutil50 libmp3lame0
libswscale0

The following packages are going to be downgraded:
get_iplayer k3b k3b-lang libjack0 libjack-devel libmad0

The following packages are going to change vendor:
get_iplayer
obs://build.opensuse.org/home:malcolmlewis -> PackMan :: Startseite
k3b
openSUSE -> PackMan :: Startseite
k3b-lang
openSUSE -> PackMan :: Startseite
libjack0
PackMan :: Startseite -> openSUSE
libjack-devel
PackMan :: Startseite -> openSUSE

7 packages to upgrade, 6 to downgrade, 2 new, 5 to change vendor.
Overall download size: 13.6 MiB. After the operation, additional 1.2 MiB will
be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): n
xenakis:/jpff #

Those shouldn’t cause this.

BTW whatever happened to xpdf? It does not work and does not seem to be in repositories

It has been replaced by poppler. (actually poppler is a fork of xpdf with the goal to create a shared library that can be used by other programs)

No idea what happened to the xpdf-poppler package (an xpdf executable that used libpoppler) though, it got dropped after 12.1.

jpff · November 2, 2013, 7:00pm

Tried that and it deleted a number of packages, mainly 12.1CD/DVD and zlib anf some lib that looked likea video – could not find how to capture the text. Made no difference to rge call for pango:

(seamonkey-bin:5527): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but I get some kind of window. Need to await next week to see what happens on the screen.

It has been replaced by poppler. (actually poppler is a fork of xpdf with the goal to create a shared library that can be used by other programs)

No idea what happened to the xpdf-poppler package (an xpdf executable that used libpoppler) though, it got dropped after 12.1.

How does on get poppler? There is no package and no program
~I searched

Also triedlocate anf thete are unworking xpdf and xpdf-poppler – both seek libpoppler.so.18 which does not exist.

As you can tell my experience with 12.3 has been very negative; not booting, not giving X, not giving NFS disks, and some thing not working. 12.2 works perfectly. Worrying about 13.1!

robin_listas · November 2, 2013, 7:13pm

On 2013-11-02 18:16, wolfi323 wrote:
> jpff;2595164 Wrote:
>> >
>> > Not sure if I can detect red (colour blind). But all looked the same
>> > (red==black usually)
> Hm, that’s a pity. I expect some 12.2 package that’s left over and
> should be shown in red instead of black.
>
> Well, try to select “Unmaintained packages” as secondary filter in that
> view (on the left side, below the repos list).
> Does that show any packages?

Or run one of these queries:


> rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}	%{INSTALLTIME:day} \
>    %{BUILDTIME:day} %-30{NAME}	%15{VERSION}-%-7{RELEASE}	%{arch} \
>    %25{VENDOR}%25{PACKAGER} == %{DISTRIBUTION} %{DISTTAG}
" \
>   | sort | cut --fields="2-" | tee rpmlist | less -S
>
> or
>
> rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}	%{INSTALLTIME:day} \
>    %{BUILDTIME:day} %-30{NAME}	%15{VERSION}-%-7{RELEASE}	%{arch} \
>    %25{VENDOR}%25{PACKAGER} == %{DISTRIBUTION} %{DISTTAG}
" \
>   | sort | cut --fields="2-" | tee rpmlist | egrep -v "openSUSE.12\.2" | less -S

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

wolfi323 · November 2, 2013, 7:21pm

Poppler mainly is a library (libpoppler) to be used by other programs, okular and evince use it f.e., see here: Poppler (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As mentioned there also was xpdf-poppler, which was an xpdf that actually used libpoppler for rendering the documents, but that’s not available anymore (at least not in the standard openSUSE repos).

Also triedlocate anf thete are unworking xpdf and xpdf-poppler – both seek libpoppler.so.18 which does not exist.

Then they must be a leftover from 12.1! But why didn’t they get uninstalled by that “Uninstall all”?
And those packages should require libpoppler18, so they should have been uninstalled by the upgrade anyway because libpoppler18 is not available any more.

Strange. What does “rpm -qf which xpdf” say?

As you can tell my experience with 12.3 has been very negative; not booting, not giving X, not giving NFS disks, and some thing not working. 12.2 works perfectly. Worrying about 13.1!

Well, apparently there has been something wrong with the way you upgraded, if you still have 12.1 stuff left.
I didn’t have any grave problem with 12.3 (I don’t use NFS though I have to say).

jpff · November 2, 2013, 8:18pm

So there is no replacement for xpdf? I do not see that mentioned in the release notes.

Then they must be a leftover from 12.1! But why didn’t they get uninstalled by that “Uninstall all”?
And those packages should require libpoppler18, so they should have been uninstalled by the upgrade anyway because libpoppler18 is not available any more.

Strange. What does “rpm -qf which xpdf” say?

Well, apparently there has been something wrong with the way you upgraded, if you still have 12.1 stuff left.
I didn’t have any grave problem with 12.3 (I don’t use NFS though I have to say).

xenakis:~ 125> rpm -qf which xpdf
file /usr/bin/xpdf is not owned by any package
xenakis:~ 126>

This machine or its disks previously ran 12.0, 12.1 and 12.2 and was upgraded each time via zypper in place. Always worked before but not 12.3. Others here University failed to get 12.3 running and so my own network is all 12.2 and I fear the upgrade.

I akso tried the “rpm -q -a --queryformat …” command and it was incomprehensible, a list of dates and later version numbers (I think) for something.

Thank you anyway – maybe things are a little improved.

wolfi323 · November 3, 2013, 8:01pm

It’s not included anymore since 12.2, yes.

But you can find it on OBS:
software.opensuse.org:

xenakis:~ 125> rpm -qf which xpdf
file /usr/bin/xpdf is not owned by any package
xenakis:~ 126>

Another strange thing. Why is the file still there when the package is uninstalled?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s other stuff from 12.1 or 12.2 on your system, even though the corresponding 12.3 packages are installed.

How something like this happened I don’t know.
Maybe an inconsistent file system or hard disk errors when upgrading?
Or is your system spread over multiple partitions and not all of them were mounted during the update (not likely though, you would have bigger problems then)?

I would suggest to re-install all packages (f.e. right-click on the installed packages list in YaST and select “All in this List”->“Update Unconditionally”), or do a fresh installation.

If you don’t want to do that, you could run “rpm -Va” to verify all installed packages (warning, that will take some time!) and then only re-install those packages that are found to be not consistent.

This machine or its disks previously ran 12.0, 12.1 and 12.2 and was upgraded each time via zypper in place. Always worked before but not 12.3. Others here University failed to get 12.3 running and so my own network is all 12.2 and I fear the upgrade.

I doubt that you ran 12.0, that version never existed…

I always upgraded in-place from one version to the next since 8.1, and never had such problems.