Another 2.6 upgrade
Hello all,
This is a detailed report of an upgrade from Sarge's Gnome 2.4 to
Experimental Gnome 2.6.
First things first, I added both "unstable" and "experimental" to my
sources.list file and went from there as I did previously with a
different system, only this time i tried to take notes on the things
that went wrong. This is what I got:
When libgconf2.4 was being installed, it just sits there waiting
forever... after I hit "ENTER" it continue with the installation of the
rest of the packages (This is the second time that happens to me while
installing gnome2.6 from experimental: apt-get install -t experimental
gnome-desktop-environment).
When logging in for the first time, Gnome would say that the session
lasted less than 10 seconds then it would offer to show the sessions
error file, inside that file there was nothing. Just common entries. I
fixed this issue by logging on from a console (ctrl+alt+f1) and moving
the old .xsession file to xsession. After that I could login with no
problems.
Gnome complaint about my .Xmodmap file. I had to remove that file
afterwards (supposedly the keyboard control panel allows you to
configure your keycodes, but, I have not done that yet).
When using Nautilus 2.6 to mount smb shares over the network, the system
log displayed the following errors, and, of course, nautilus hung
forever:
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: smbfs: Unrecognized mount option noexec
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: smb_lookup: find //.Trash-username failed,
error=-5
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000000
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: printing eip:
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: 00000000
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: *pde = 00000000
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: SMP
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Tainted: P
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.5-smp-0)
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: EIP is at 0x0
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: eax: d7b73f60 ebx: d5afdf30 ecx:
c016b210 edx: d40658e0
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: esi: d5afdfa0 edi: c129af18 ebp:
d137c7c0 esp: d5afdf00
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: Process nautilus (pid: 1617,
threadinfo=d5afc000 task=d5b24830)
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: Stack: e0b7bc86 d40658e0 d5afdfa0 c016b210
d5afdf30 00000000 00000002 00000004
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: d3255e6c 00000000 d0ac7000 de9783c0
006083bb 00049422 005f82ba 00000000
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: 00000000 d0ac7000 00000002 00000000
00000000 00000001 00000004 00000000
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: Call Trace:
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [pg0+545049734/1069871104]
smb_readdir+0x406/0x5a0 [smbfs]
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [filldir64+0/288] filldir64+0x0/0x120
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [vfs_readdir+137/160]
vfs_readdir+0x89/0xa0
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [filldir64+0/288] filldir64+0x0/0x120
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [sys_getdents64+110/170]
sys_getdents64+0x6e/0xaa
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [filldir64+0/288] filldir64+0x0/0x120
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: [sysenter_past_esp+82/113]
sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel:
Apr 16 10:48:13 r007 kernel: Code: Bad EIP value.
In case you wonder, the kernel is "tainted" because it has the nvidia
module loaded. I never saw this kind of errors before with Nautilus 2.4.
Also, in fstab the share I have set (which was working find before) has
been setup like that for a long time and it doesn't contain the "noexec"
option as said above. I think nautilus uses it's own options when
mounting shares and it disregards the entries in fstab? Not sure.
I fixed the previous issue by stopping FAM and rebooting the box. After
that, I could mount the smbfs shares with no problems. Just they didn't
change icons to gnome-fs-smb.png like Nautilus 2.4 did. The Gnome icons
folder still has the icon, so I guess that there is something screwed
there possibly upstream and not necessarily the Debian package?
I had to manually install all the gtk2-engines* that i needed: pixbuf,
pixmaps, smooth, crux, etc... Something is screwed there.
The gnome-devel meta package doesn't work. I had to manually pick all
gnome-dev stuff starting from libgnomeui2-dev and following with
whatever was left.
This should be it for now, I'll try to install Gnome2.6 to other boxes I
have to see how smooth/bad the process goes.
All in all, i'm very glad I did the upgrade.
Keep up the good work.
p.d. For those keeping notes, I upgraded the GnoMetal2 theme (again).
This time I added a better "visiting" folder icon (hopefully better) and
cleaned up a lot of stuff that were wrong or extra (thus wrong anyway).
You can get it from
http://www.latinomixed.com/downloads/GnoMetal2.tar.bz2 as usual... To
see a screenshot, just use this link:
http://lems1.latinomixed.com/images/screenshot-full-size.png
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Luis M
System Administrator/Web Developer
LatinoMixed.com
lemsx1@latinomixed.com
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