[NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 Gnome kaput; What now?

[Terry]

On 5/5/05, John K. Taber <jktaber at charter.net> wrote:
> I applied about 150 updates from the red button, a few at a time.
> Someplace along the way, the Gnome desktop was damaged. The error
> message box says "eggcups unexpectedly quit" and lets me send an error
> report to Bugzilla.
> 
> The crash occurs after I log on.
> 
> No icon appears on the desktop, and the desktop is just a solid blue,
> not the FC3 screen. In effect, the Gnome desktop is unusable. I also
> can't log off (I still have terminal mode so I issue a shutdown).
> 
> I was told to "yum update prelink" by the Bugzilla people, which I did,
> but to no avail.
> 
> Does anybody have suggestions? Remember, I'm a newbie so you need to be
> more specific than with a pro.
> 
> At worse I suppose I can reinstall from the FC3 disks, and just not
> apply updates.
> 
> Unhappy,
> 
> John
> 
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Just did a google search that truned up some info:
From:
http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/archives/1/200411

Errors after a massive Fedora Core 3 errata updates
23 November, 2004 5:45 pm - Categories: Linux

After experiencing a lot of errors starting programs when a GNOME
session is started (no background is shown and a lot of panel applets
crashes) after doing a massive update of all the erratas for Fedora
Core 3, I solved them executing a full prelink of the system, with the
following command:

/usr/sbin/prelink -af

This force the prelink of all the binaries located on the directories
defined in the file /etc/prelink.conf, ignoring if there is data on
the prelink cache
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Also turned this up from: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/106950
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-458
2004-11-30
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : prelink
Version     : 0.3.3
Release     : 0.fc3
Summary     : An ELF prelinking utility
Description :
The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries
and executables, so that far less relocations need to be resolved at runtime
and thus programs come up faster.

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* Tue Nov 23 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> 0.3.3-0.fc3

- if layout code needs to re-prelink some library, make sure
  all libraries that depend on it are re-prelinked too (#140081)
- add several more checks before deciding it is ok to prelink a binary
  (even if another bug like #140081 was in, these checks should hopefully
  catch it and refuse to (re-)prelink the binary)
- added new PRELINK_NONRPM_CHECK_INTERVAL variable to /etc/prelink,
  defaulting to 7 days.  Prelink nightly job will not do anything
  if that interval has not elapsed since last prelinking and
  and the rpm database has not been modified since that prelinking.
  This is useful if you rely on rpm/up2date/yum/apt-rpm for library
  and binary updates.  If you combine it with other means (installs
  from source, tarballs etc.), you probably want to
  set PRELINK_NONRPM_CHECK_INTERVAL=0.
- update prelink man page (#126468)


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This update can be downloaded from:
   http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

SRPMS/prelink-0.3.3-0.fc3.src.rpm
  x86_64/prelink-0.3.3-0.fc3.x86_64.rpm
  x86_64/debug/prelink-debuginfo-0.3.3-0.fc3.x86_64.rpm
  i386/prelink-0.3.3-0.fc3.i386.rpm
  i386/debug/prelink-debuginfo-0.3.3-0.fc3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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And this too:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/updates/3/i386/debug/prelink-debuginfo-0.3.3-0.fc3.i386.html