[NTLUG:Discuss] RH 8.0 questions.

[Wayne Dahl]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 08:56, Greg Edwards wrote:
> Wayne Dahl wrote:
> > Hi again guys.
> > 
> > I just upgraded (?) from RH 7.3 to 8.0 a couple of days ago and have
> > some questions. 
> > 
> 
> 
> > 2.  I now can't get into my normal user account, presumably because I
> > temporarily selected Enlightenment as my window manager, changed back to
> > Gnome and now I get this error showing in the .xsessions-errors file in
> > my user account...
> > 
> > /usr/bin/enlightenment: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libImlib.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > 
> 
> 
> > 
> > This is gonna take some getting used to.  Some of the programs I used
> > before like Kpackage aren't there any more.  The Package Manager they
> > send with this version locked up on me the other day, but seemed to work
> > find today.  Same with up2date...up2date is not confused about a package
> > I installed the other day...it won't install the updated samba-common
> > rpm because it says the samba-client update is already installed.  Does
> > that mean I don't need to install it?  I was under the impression that I
> > needed to install all the updates since I did update the samba-server
> > and the samba-client...or does that catch the files the samba-common
> > would install?

This may answer some of the questions Kenneth had to upgrading to RH
8.0.  For a little more background, I upgraded to 8.0 on a CompUSA
466Mhz PII, 256 Megs mem with a 6 Gig main drive and 40 Gig secondary
drive (I use the 6 Gig drive for my Windows 98 drive and a partition on
it for /boot for Linux, that's it.  The rest of the installation is on
the 40 Gig drive).  
> My install (Mandrake 8.2) has /usr/lib/libImlib.so.1 as a link to 
> /usr/lib/libImlib.so.1.9.13.  Check if this may just be a missed link.

When I do a ls -l /usr/lib/libIm*, I get libImlib.a, libImlib.so,
libImlib.so.11, libImlib.so.11.0.0.  libImlib.so and libImlib.so.11 are
sym links to libImlib.so.11.0.0.  I tried installing the latest version
of Enlightenment on my system and I still can't get into my normal user
account (I'm writing this as root right now).

So, I'm still stuck.  When I attempt to log into my normal user account,
Wayne, pass xxxxxxx, I immediately get an error telling me my session
lasted less than 10 seconds and to check the /.xsessions-errors file and
checking that file after the install of the latest version still yields
the error found above.

So...is there a configuration file I should be looking for under the
desktop of my user account that might account for this?  What caused
this to begin with was, I was using Gnome 2.0, switched to Enlightenment
temporarily and then switched back to Gnome in the same session (unless
it's changed, I know that Enlightenment used to run on top of
Gnome...don't know if that's still the case or not).  I had not logged
out of the session before I switched back.  So...is this telling me
there's a problem with the install of Enlightenment?  The other stuff
with Samba will have to wait until I can log back on as a normal user.  

By the way, the other users I have set up on this box work just fine,
but they have not been switched to Enlightenment either.

The other thing about the sawfish window manager is that I am running
sawfish 2.0 with Gnome 2.0 and it will not start...it just does nothing
with no errors that I can see or find.  That's in answer to the question
Kyle asked.

Thanks again,

Wayne