Re: [Gramps-users] Debian upgrade woes

[Tim A. <ti...@pr...>]

Michael Lightfoot wrote:
> On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:49, Michael Lightfoot wrote:
> 
> I have now installed python-gnome2 2.12 from Debian unstable but it doesn't 
> fix the problem.  I suppose there are other gnome/python components which are 
> still interfering with gramps.
> 
> As I am decidedly NOT a python programmer (and not really a programmer at all) 
> I can't really get any more diagnostics.  Has anyone else suffering from this 
> gnome/python problem got a solution that doesn't involve me hacking my key 
> Linux system from moderately stable to unusable.  :-)

I had a slightly similar, but, I think, different, experience when I 
upgraded my gnome recently, on my gentoo box. I also upgraded my gcc and 
glibc at the same time. Gramps stopped working, segfaulting during 
startup. I presumed that I had some dependency or other that needed 
rebuilding after the gnome/glibc upgrade, so started tracking them down 
and rebuilding them one by one. Eventually after I rebuilt expat, it all 
worked ok. The errors you're seeing don't sound exactly like what I'm 
seeing, so I guess if it's a dependency problem it's a different one (ie 
not expat). But I suppose if you have the persistence to just update 
packages one by one, you will probably get there. I don't know much 
about the internal format of a .deb, but presumably it does declare 
dependencies somewhere, so that would tell you what to concentrate on.

Tim