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. =================================================================== EASY and FREE access to your email anywhere: http://Mailreader.com/ ===================================================================
