Re: What could be missing?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:14:34 -0500, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

> My question has been, repeatedly,
> what could those specific files needed by NEdit (that are present in
> the first install
> and absent in the second) be? The answer to that question will fix this  
> problem.

Maybe, but the logic you use to arrive at that solution does not track  
with my experience in this area, and it is obvious to me that these are  
rather non-standard Slackware installations on different hardware, making  
diagnosis that much more difficult. There is no way of knowing what  
exactly is the cause without further investigation. Doing a comparison of  
the hashes on every single file in these two systems and tracing the files  
and system calls of the two running NEdit installations could do it.

> Does looking at the list of removed packages give you a hint of what
> that may be?

No. There are just too many things that do not track for me to feel  
confident picking out one of this packages. The most expedient solution is  
to install all of the packages that you removed and see whether things  
work or not. If not, then you know it is something else, if it does work,  
then you know that something is there that is needed. After that you can  
simply start removing packages one at a time and find out which one causes  
the problems.

If you lack the space for such a venture, then your only hope is to  
selectively try all the combinations of packages that could do something  
and see when things start working again.

Basically, there are only two possible solutions, more analysis, or brute  
forcing it. I would be inclined to brute force it, but it appears that you  
do not want to do that. I see nothing in your emails that jumps out at me,  
or that indicates anything amiss aside from the very strange and limited  
package sets that differ significantly from mine. Of course, one can do  
things with a system outside of the package system, so it is as likely  
that someone or something altered something outside of the purview of the  
package manager as it is likely that you have a missing package.

	Aaron W. Hsu

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