Re: Orca possible problem with latest edgy updates

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,

Looks like it is indeed a rather unfortunate night in terms of the whole 
update process.  Keep your chin up though, as you seem to be doing better 
than me-- at least your desktop comes up in the first place, grin.

I'm thinking that at least on my machine, some sort of Python related 
dependency may be broken.

My initial update failed with errors, and now, whenever I try to update 
again, even after doing a -f install, I get this:
Setting up gnome-app-install (0.2.11) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/update-app-install", line 16, in ?
from AppInstall.Menu import *
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/Menu.py", line 5, in ?
import gtk
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 48, 
in
?
from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: PyGObject version too old, 2.11.1 is required, found 2.12.0.

I  have no idea exactly what's going on, but I guess I've managed to break 
enough stuff for one night, so I'm off to bed.  You really gotta love Linux 
though.  This is one of the very few instances in life in which I'll be able 
to go to sleep, and half way legitimately expect that my problem will really 
be gone by the time morning comes around.

--Al





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <j-diggs comcast net>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:09 AM
Subject: Orca possible problem with latest edgy updates


> Hi all.  I just updated both of my Edgy machines and had some rather
> unfortunate results with respect to Orca.  Since I have not yet figured
> out what is going on, I figured I'd post it here.
>
> The post-update symptoms:
>
> 1.  When I run Orca from the Applications menu, nothing seems to occur.
>
> 2.  When I run Orca from a terminal window I get the following error:
>
>    Cannot start Orca because it cannot connect to the Desktop.
>    Please make sure the DISPLAY environment variable has been set.
>
> 3.  When I check to see if the DISPLAY environment variable has been
> set, it *seems* to be:
>
>    jd pokey:~$ echo $DISPLAY
>    :0.0
>
> 4.  I tried deleting my user-settings.py (and later on my entire ~/.orca
> directory).  Then when I run Orca from the terminal, I go through the
> normal setup routine (which is spoken as expected).  However, after I
> log off and back on and launch Orca, I'm back to the above problem.
>
> 5.  I tried completely removing the Orca package (including ~/.orca) and
> reinstalling it.  No difference.
>
> 6. I (re)built from CVS.  No difference.
>
> Somehow, I managed to get Orca working again on my primary desktop.  I'm
> afraid I don't know what did the trick, however.  Sorry! You see, I
> initially thought the problem was related to that computer's setup
> (tri-head using Xinerama) and therefore messed around in an admittedly
> unsystematic fashion with xorg.conf and anything else I thought might be
> related.
>
> My secondary desktop is pretty straightforward (one monitor, original
> xorg.conf, and mostly devoid of "development" versions of software).
> It's on this system that I have not yet figured out how to get Orca
> running again.  I figured that if I'm having this problem on my "normal"
> system as a result of the latest edgy updates, there's a healthy chance
> that I wouldn't be the only one, hence the note.
>
> Finally:  After having the problem with my primary desktop, I figured
> I'd should pay attention to what was being updated.  Here's the list
> from the secondary desktop:
>
> eog
> evolution
> evolution-dbg
> evolution-exchange
> evolution-plugins
> gnome-about
> gnome-desktop-data
> libgnome-desktop-2
> libgnome-desktop-dev
> libmetacity0
> libmono-cairo1.0-cil
> libmono-corlib1.0-cil
> libmono-data-tds1.0-cil
> libmono-security1.0-cil
> libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil
> libmono-sqlite1.0-cil
> libmono-system-data1.0-cil
> libmono-system-web1.0-cil
> libmono-system1.0-cil
> libmono0
> libmono1.0-cil
> libwnck-common
> libwnck18
> mcpp
> metacity
> metacity-common
> mono-common
> mono-gac
> mono-jit
> mono-runtime
> python-glade2
> python-gobject
> python-gobject-dev
> python-gtk2
> python-gtk2-dev
> system-tools-backends
> ubuntu-standard
> xrdb
> yelp
>
> Take care.
> Joanie
>
>
>
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