Adam Hardy wrote: > hi fellow debian users > > I throw myself at your feet and grovel for help with the whole tedious > mish-mash that has arisen while trying to set up libusb to run the > hotsynch with my handheld. > > This is what went wrong: > > (1) suddenly the gnome window manager, menu and taskbar when I booted > this morning after working on it last night > (2) the sound is now disabled (esd) > (3) I can't open a terminal or shell window > > I can't strictly narrow this down to libusb, it might have something to > do with udev and a few other packages I upgraded last night. > > I managed to salvage gnome by re-installing it with synatpic. > > I can't get the sound back on (even though I see the esd daemon sitting > there) and the shell launchers in x give me "error creating child > process". > > I also see lots of different apps saying: > > /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 131: /dev/null: Permission denied > What are the permissions on /dev/null? They should be crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-03 01:51 /dev/null
> and also a few of these: > > > (nautilus:4179): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module > `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libcdda.so' > (/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libcdda.so: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory) > What are the permissions on these shared libraries? > Can anyone tell me where to go from here? > What versions are your running? Both of Debian (sarge, etch, sid, mix?) and of the failing programs. Are any packages in a broken state, unconfigured, or otherwise not installed properly? I.e. does apt-get install (whatever) suggest you do an apt-get -f install? > > Thanks > Adam Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]