Sarge: GNOME broken, @gprel relocation errors and still the NVIDIA problem
Hi,
After some hesitation, I finally upgraded my "production" hp workstation
i2000 from Woody to Sarge (reinstallation from scratch with the debian-
installer CD). It was then quickly updated with the latest Sarge
available packages as of July 30th. The nightmare has begun.
When starting a GNOME session, nautilus crashes with something wrong
in libpthread. I've read the post from David and tried the proposed
solution with the fixed libgnome2 and libpango1.0 libraries from
Ian. No success and in fact, actual Sarge packages are posterior
to the ones in Ian's pango directory. Since a GNOME session without
a running nautilus is pretty unusable, I've then switched to KDE.
KDE starts up without a problem. Great! Now trying to install the
latest NVIDIA kernel. After apt-getting the required kernel-headers,
the NVIDIA kernel recompiled and installed flawlessly. Ouch! Now
KDE badly crashes. It seems that I'm not as lucky as Richard in my
attempt to have a working 3D accelerated KDE environment. Just to
check, I started a GNOME session again to see if the problem is limited
to KDE or not. Unfortunately, no! Same problem with GNOME: crash
without more information in /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
After properly uninstalling the NVIDIA kernel, I have at least a
running KDE session and can start to work. Not so far however, since
I'm experiencing a lot of @gprel relocation errors in my C++ projects.
After Googling a few hours in order to make these errors go away
(without a success), I finally decide to give the Intel compilers
a try. This ended up with @gprel relocation errors against the same
symbols (well, the temporary names are not strictly the same, but
they definitely point to the same symbols).
To resume, I have a completely unusable fresh Sarge installation.
Except for the Intel compilers, all my packages come from Debian
Sarge repository. My kernel is kernel-image-2.4.26-1-itanium-smp
(I've tried kernel-image-2.4.25-itanium-smp too but not a 2.6.x kernel
image since the NVIDIA drivers are not compatible with), libc6.1
is version 2.3.2.dsl-0.13, XFree86 is 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 and gcc is 3.
3.4-3.
Any hints to workaround some of these problems? Should I upgrade
to unstable?
Great thanks.
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