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[Database Administrator]

Unruh wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer writes:
>
> .....
>> At some point, a lot fell apart. I cannot login as one of my users.
>> Actually, it does login but I get a completely black screen. Ctl-Alt-F1 will
>> get me a console, so obviously it is working. I looked at what was running,
>> and lots of desktop stuff is missing. No idea why.
>
>> I can login as myself, but the Nautilus thingie does not know anything about
>> file types, and tries to open them all with the same tool that does not work
>> for most things. This works for root user, though.
>
> Ah, sounds like permission problems.
> chmod -R a+rX /usr/lib /usr/bin /usr/share
>
> and then try again.
>
>
>> Also, I cannot make launching icons on the desktop. I go through the drill,
>> but it makes defective ones. This works for root user, though.
>
> No idea what a defective one is.

It is one that does not look right (wrong icon with text in it) and does not
work right either. No matter what it is supposed to launch, it launches
RealPlayer 10 with an invalid error message.
>
>> Obviously some kind of permission problems, but I cannot imagine what I may
>> have done. I have SElinux turned off.
>
Anyhow, I reinstalled the whole thing and it is OK now. But I must get
GnuCash working within a week or so.

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In comp.os.linux.misc Jean-David Beyer :
> Michael Heiming wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Jean-David Beyer :

>>> I do not know what ff I was running. I am in process of upgrading to RHEL5
>>> and it is sure a can of worms. It installs pretty quickly, but configuring
>>> it is a pain between the back pockets.

>> Installed CentOS 5 some time ago and had no big problem, unless
>> the distro kernel was pretty unstable. To rule out any hardware
>> problem compiled a recent kernel.org kernel and had no problems
>> since then.


>>> I cannot find an Acrobat Reader that works, so I downloaded Xpdf, but that
>>> needs a non-RHEL5 library (libXp) that I got from xorg-X11-deprecated... and
>>> when that was installed, it worked, but it immediately updated to
>>> libXp-1.0.0-8 from somewhere else.

>> Strange,

>> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/acroread
>> AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1

> I tried it and it did not work worth a damn. Xpdf seems to
> work fine, so I guess I will go with that even though Red Hat
> do not support it.

Indeed, though the FC6 rpm should just work fine:

# yum localinstall /tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining /tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm: xpdf -
1:3.01-28.fc6.i386
Marking /tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm to be installed
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please
wait.
---> Package xpdf.i386 1:3.01-28.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: poppler-utils for package: xpdf
--> Processing Dependency: libt1.so.5 for package: xpdf
--> Processing Dependency: libXm.so.2 for package: xpdf
--> Processing Dependency: libpaper.so.1 for package: xpdf
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please
wait.
---> Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.el5 set to be updated
---> Package t1lib.i386 0:5.1.0-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libXm.so.2 for package: xpdf
--> Processing Dependency: libpaper.so.1 for package: xpdf
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libXm.so.2 is needed by package xpdf
Error: Missing Dependency: libpaper.so.1 is needed by package
xpdf

Obviously there are 2 dependencies that can't be resolved
automatically. ;-(

Never like xpdf that much, though it should be on the system in
any case. So lets start over:

# yum localinstall /tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm \
/tmp/lesstif-0.95.0-15.fc6.i386.rpm \
/tmp/libpaper-1.1.20-5.fc6.i386.rpm

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining /tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm: xpdf -
1:3.01-28.fc6.i386
Examining /tmp/lesstif-0.95.0-15.fc6.i386.rpm: lesstif -
0.95.0-15.fc6.i386
Examining /tmp/libpaper-1.1.20-5.fc6.i386.rpm: libpaper -
1.1.20-5.fc6.i386
Marking /tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm to be installed
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Marking /tmp/lesstif-0.95.0-15.fc6.i386.rpm to be installed
Marking /tmp/libpaper-1.1.20-5.fc6.i386.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please
wait.
---> Package libpaper.i386 0:1.1.20-5.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package lesstif.i386 0:0.95.0-15.fc6 set to be updated
---> Package xpdf.i386 1:3.01-28.fc6 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: poppler-utils for package: xpdf
--> Processing Dependency: libt1.so.5 for package: xpdf
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please
wait.
---> Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.el5 set to be updated
---> Package t1lib.i386 0:5.1.0-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

================================================== ===========================
Package Arch Version Repository
Size
================================================== ===========================
Installing:
lesstif i386 0.95.0-15.fc6
/tmp/lesstif-0.95.0-15.fc6.i386.rpm 1.8 M
libpaper i386 1.1.20-5.fc6
/tmp/libpaper-1.1.20-5.fc6.i386.rpm 75 k
xpdf i386 1:3.01-28.fc6
/tmp/xpdf-3.01-28.fc6.i386.rpm 2.3 M
Installing for dependencies:
poppler-utils i386 0.5.4-4.el5 base
70 k
t1lib i386 5.1.0-1.el5.rf rpmforge
362 k

Transaction Summary
================================================== ===========================
Install 5 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 4.5 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): poppler-utils-0.5. 100% |=========================| 70 kB
00:00
(2/2): t1lib-5.1.0-1.el5. 100% |=========================| 362 kB
00:01
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: t1lib
######################### [1/5]
Installing: poppler-utils
######################### [2/5]
Installing: lesstif
######################### [3/5]
Installing: libpaper
######################### [4/5]
Installing: xpdf
######################### [5/5]

Installed: lesstif.i386 0:0.95.0-15.fc6 libpaper.i386
0:1.1.20-5.fc6 xpdf.i386 1:3.01-28.fc6
Dependency Installed: poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.el5 t1lib.i386
0:5.1.0-1.el5.rf
Complete!

OK, works now...

>>> Also, I cannot make launching icons on the desktop. I go through the drill,
>>> but it makes defective ones. This works for root user, though.

>>> Obviously some kind of permission problems, but I cannot imagine what I may
>>> have done. I have SElinux turned off.

>> Generally a good idea, I got at one point somehow bugged by
>> auditd and related stuff. But in total a pretty easy update.

>> Replaced 80GB hds with 250GB to have some more space and
>> did a fresh install.

> I did a fresh install and that fixed most of the problems. Maybe all of
> them. I think it had trouble with old hidden configuration files (in $HOME)
> or something before, caused by my restoring the entire /home from backup.
> Instead, I restored it to a spare (for now) hard drive, and copy selectively
> as little as possible back to the /home directory hierarchy.

Restored $HOME completely from my CentOS 3 system to CentOS 5 and
it works without issues.

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