Gnome 2.2 will not start on my CURRENT system

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: 23 Jul 2003 13:40:49 -0400
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> On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 13:24, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > Date: 22 Jul 2003 19:48:14 -0400
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> > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:44, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > > > Date: 22 Jul 2003 18:14:33 -0400
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> > > > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:05, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > > > I'm not sure if this is a threading issue or a Gnome issue, but..=
> .
> > > > > >=3D3D20
> > > > > > Today I could not start Gnome on my desktop CURRENT system. X sta=
> rts
> > > > > > fine, but Gnome start-up immediately bombs out (and X goes with i=
> t)
> > > > > > with the message:
> > > > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libc_r.so.5: Undefined symbol =
> "__t=3D
> > > hr_j=3D3D
> > > > > table"
> > > > > >=3D3D20
> > > > > > I have rebuilt my system, so I have a current libc_r.so and I hav=
> e
> > > > > > checked that all of the gnome components are up-to-date as of thi=
> s
> > > > > > morning.
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> > > > > > Any idea what is happening here?
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> > > > > This is the same problem you reported before, and so far you're the=
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> > > > > one that's reported it.  Have you installed anything from packages =
> that
> > > > > might have been built against on older version of libc_r?
> > > >=3D20
> > > > No, the last problem was quite a bit different. (Well, it was a loade=
> r
> > > > issue.) It was an error that occurred when building Gnome and was
> > > > cause by an out-dated gmake which produced a message making libintl.s=
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> > > > suspect.
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> > > > This is a run-time error with the problem in libc_r. And, what makes
> > > > it worse is that gnome was starting last week and went away this
> > > > week. I only re-built some ports in between. (Unfortunately, I don't
> > > > recall just what ports.)
> > >=20
> > > Can you isolate a certain component that causes the error?  That is, ca=
> n
> > > you launch pure GTK applications (e.g gaim)?  Can you launch
> > > gconf-editor?  If we can isolate a bad dependency, that may help.
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> > Yes, gtk based apps run. gconf-editor also runs, although it finds
> > nothing since gconfd is not running.
> 
> Okay, so that rules out all of the dependencies of gconf-editor.  Bump
> up to ggv, and see if that works.

Yes, ggv dies with the same error. But my re-build attempt made me
realize what was really happening.

I'm so embarrassed! You were right the first time.

This system was recently upgraded from STABLE to CURRENT. As I
discovered last time, you really MUST re-build gmake after the upgrade
and I failed to do it.

While the symptoms of this were a bit different, the cause was the
same and the fix was 'portupgrade -f gmake.

Things are still re-building, but I strongly suspect that
gnome-session will run fine after it's re-built.

Sorry for wasting your time.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634