From: Mike H. <mik...@an...> - 2007-07-16 15:20:03
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I've been using ROX Session + ROX Filer on Fedora Core 3 for ages with very few problems but today, as a result of unintentionally loading a 10MB JPEG into Firefox which appeared to make the desktop unusably slow, I had to halt the machine and restart it. When it restarted ROX Session had all new window furniture but crashed immediately offering alternatives of continuing, xterm, or restart. Restart just gets back to the same crashed state and continuing just crashes again. My only option is to use KDE or Gnome :-( This happened a long time ago and I had to re-install ROX (I used ROX-All for simplicity). So I thought I'd do the same again. However, when I tried to follow the instructions to re-install ROX-All 1.1 it failed at the second hurdle (0launch appeared to be OK)... ~/.cache/0install.net/implementations/sha1new=bcb7bacfd76a3dc2e38bcff422290bbafa 6fcefb/ROX-Filer/ROX-Filer: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ~/.cache/0install.net/implementations/sha1new=bcb7bacfd76a3dc2e38bcff422290bbafa 6fcefb/ROX-Filer/ROX-Filer) Now all I'm trying to do is to re-install the currently installed version (1.1) but it appears to require a new version of GLibC which it didn't require last time. Next, I looked for the required GLibC_2.4 RPM and found there isn't a version for FC3 (only FC5 and above). I don't have the time to risk upgrading on my live machine so I don't intend to go to FC5 or later, yet. With all the complexity of 0install and rox I really don't know where to start trying to get back to a working ROX Session without spending the rest of the week installing new libraries and probably getting locked into endless dependencies until the point of realizing its easier to install a new Fedora Core from scratch. I have an extremely tight schedule so I can't spend any time experimenting so at the moment I'm simply having to ditch ROX. In fact, would it be simpler to upgrade to a later FC, or is there a way of recovering the situation? ROX is great when its working but its a nightmare if anything goes wrong because I never know where to start in recovering it. -- Mike Hobbs |