[arch-general] Gnome update failed
Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue? Thanks, Manolo.
Once you've logged in to Gnome try switching to a TTY and as root run "killall compiz". From the gray screen with compiz effects activated it sounds like a driver issue when loading compiz that turns the entire screen that color. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Manolo <manolo.k@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue? Thanks, Manolo.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:34:40PM -0300, Manolo wrote:
Hello everyone, the last month when I was trying to update with pacman -Syu, this error message showed up: usr/sbin/gconfpkg: line 18: 21838 Violaci�n de segmento GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule /usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas > /dev/null When I rebooted, I couldn't enter into Gnome again. The only thing I could see was a gray screen, but with the compiz effects activated (cube). I tried to downgrade and to force the installation of the package gnome, xorg-server and so on, but nothing happened. Now, I'm usin LXDE (a nice DE, by the way), but the update of gnome package keeps failing. Anyone with this trouble, any ideas about solving this issue?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14107#comment42340 Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 21:16 GMT+2
ok, this is a serious bug. Stupid that we didn't catch it before.
For those who are affected: after this segmentation fault, the system gconf schema database is corrupted and needs a full rebuild. To do so, run this from a terminal:
export LANG=C export GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`/usr/bin/gconftool-2 --get-default-source` for i in /usr/share/gconf/schemas/*.schemas; do /usr/bin/gconftool-2 --makefile-install-rule $i done
This should install all gconf schemas on your system.
This happens with nearly every non-UTF8 locale.
OK, thanks for the answers. Upgrade worked for me when I set locales to "en". Thanks!!! Manolo.
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Alessandro Doro
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Christopher Daley
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Manolo