Re: Testing, "could not start kdeinit. check your installation" since yesterdays updates

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> > Yup, get the libXft 2.1.7 library and replace that shared object 
> > library as
> > below and it will work, it is only a hack but it works..
> >
> > I fixed this by using the lib from a box with libXft2 2.1.7 instead of
> > 2.1.8.2-3.
> >
> > # mv libXft.so.2.1.2 libXft.so.2.1.2-2.1.8.2-3
> > # scp root@box:/usr/lib/libXft.so.2.1.2 .
> >
> > Then everything worked again.

[...]

> Could you make that lib available somewhere or perhaps mail it to me,
> then I can make it available?

You can find the old versions of this library on snapshot.debian.net if
you add the following 4 lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xft2
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xft2
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xft
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool xft

Then you get:

$ apt-cache policy libxft2
libxft2:
  Installed: 2.1.8.2-3
  Candidate: 2.1.8.2-3
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.8.2-3 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.1.8.2-2 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
     2.1.8.2-1 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
     2.1.7-1 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
     2.1.2-6 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
     2.1.2-5 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
     2.1.2-4 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft Packages
     2.1.1-2 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft2 Packages
     2.1-7 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft2 Packages
     2.1-6 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft2 Packages
     2.1-5 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft2 Packages
     2.1-4 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft2 Packages
     2.1-3 0
        500 http://snapshot.debian.net pool/xft2 Packages

You can install a specific version by
# apt-get install libxft2=2.1.7-1
(and use apt-pinning or aptitude to forbid upgrades of this package
until the problem is solved)

Regards,
           Florian