Ok, an update. Thanks to a few other errors generated, and a tracing of problems, i found a massive core in / that was filling up my hd. I deleted it, and now scrollback buffer works in konsole, i can log out through popup k-menu, and i'm generally a happier person. BUT: still i can't lock the screen through k-menu (like that stupid program works anyway, it still accepts anything for a password), and still a few terms (Eterm, gnome-terminal, to name a few) won't start. And still with the libsafe craziness. And, by the way, as i look thru my own message i see that it says "libsafe.so[2085]: version 1.2" but it's supposed to be version 1.3 - that's what the package name is, anyway. Could this be part of it? I"m getting sick of this problem. Many thanks, j --- John Wolford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, i've got a tough one (for me). > > I"ve had libsafe-1.3 installed on my system for a long time. Everything has > been working just fine. The other day i tried to install an rpm that wanted > libsafe-2.0, and so i pulled it off one of the Mandrake mirrors for 8.0. I > went > to install it, and it told me "failed dependancies: requires libsafe.so.1.3" > or > it might have wanted the package libsafe-1.3 i don't remember. Anyway, i do a > "rpm -q libsafe" and it answers the exact thing that it just said libsafe-2.0 > requires. So what do i do? I think to myself "stupid rpm, it's there!" and i > do > "rpm -ivh --nodeps libsafe-2.0.etc.etc" (actually, i had to do a > "--replacefiles" too because it wanted to overwrite some .gz doc file > somewhere. So that worked. > > Then the pain started. I had to fight with it awhile and some of you may > remember that i blew up libsafe-1.3 and had to get someone to send me a copy > of > /lib/libsafe.so.1.3 which finally worked and so i reinstalled it properly > (with > all kinds of --nodeps etc to get it to install). So recently i've been unable > to launch several applications. I can't log out of KDE with the pop-up K > menu, > nor can i lockscreen. Most normal applications work fine. The scrollback > (history) feature in konsole is not working, it's as though i've turned it > off > (but i haven't). I was at such a loss. Various terminals don't work. Most > don't > give an error message but Eterm gives this: > > Detected an attempt to write across stack boundary. > Terminating /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm-O.8.10. > "libsafe violation for /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm-O.8.10, pid=22253; overflow > caused > by strcpy()" > Null message body; hope that's ok > /tmp/RsiOT9Pn: No space left on device > > Inspired, i went to the logs: > [root@homer log]# grep -ir libsafe * 2>/dev/null > auth.log:May 5 08:09:32 homer libsafe.so[2085]: version 1.2 > auth.log:May 5 08:09:32 homer libsafe.so[2085]: detected an attempt to write > across stack boundary. > auth.log:May 5 08:09:32 homer libsafe.so[2085]: terminating > /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm-O.8.10 > auth.log:May 5 08:09:32 homer libsafe.so[2085]: overflow caused by strcpy() > > > > Several entries like this, all from Eterm, and all from today. > >RXVT works, and so does its scroll-back buffer, but > most > other terminals won't even fire up. I have to use the 3-fingered salute > (ctrl-alt-del) to log out of KDE b/c the menu item is non-responsive. > > And i can't seem to get rid of libsafe-2.0. Now nothing will work without > _it_ > either - my system seems to have become dependant on it as well as > libsafe-1.3. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
