Re: Can't get a GUI window to open up.

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Jim Beard grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>=20
> libstdc++.so.6.0.16 is a standard (critical) library.  The
> segfault indicates something is out of kilter.  It could be you do not
> have the latest version of libstdc++ (not likely) or that there is a
> piece of code lying around that expects the old version.
>=20
> If the new version of libstdc++ was recently installed, you may need to=

> logout out of the desktop and back in, or maybe log out and in as
> you/user, or possibly reboot to get the new version fully integrated.=20
> If the problem is old cruft lying around, you may need a new version of=

> something, or need to get rid of tmp files, or maybe need to remove old=

> config files with something like
> rm -rf $HOME/.kde4
> and let the system create them anew.

Well, thanks to you for all the time, help & info.  Thanks also to
Charles & David for their input as well.  However, I've gotten to the
point where I'm Just Giving Up.

I can't get "telinit 5" to bring the system into a normal GUI mode.
While I *can*, as it turns out, do a startx to get into it after logging
in as a normal user in run level 3 (which is not the desirable scenario
for me anyway), I can't get any sound to work.  Any sounds coming out
don't actually play until I cntrl-alt-f1 back to the terminal where I
started X - then anything that played is all queued up and I get to hear
it.  Upon logging out and returning to terminal 1 (and it won't really
log out until I manually switch back so the "shutting down" sound can
play), there's tons and tons and tons of various error messages that
blast out at this point.

This particular upgrade is well and truly borked.  At this point, I
think that while time-consuming, simply burning the DVD .iso file &
using that to do a clean install and then adding back in the missing
stuff from the online mirrors, and painstakingly putting all the config
files back from a copy of /etc (as well as restoring users by copying
over their passwd and shadow entries to preserve their passwords), etc.,
etc., etc., will actually consume LESS time than trying to get this
abortion of an upgrade working fully again.

I haven't had an in-place upgrade go this badly since the last time I
tried to upgrade a Windows system (and I don't bother trying with those
any more - it's always a clean install now since upgrades there NEVER
work). :-(  I've always like the fact that with Linux (or at least
Mandriva; I don't know about the other distros), I *could* upgrade in
place with only a relatively few kinks that had to be worked out and
cleaned up afterwords.  That sure wasn't the case this time around....

                  --Dave



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