upgrading FC4 -> FC5 and what went wrong

[Uhu]

Hi everyone,

this morning I upgraded from FC4 to FC5 using the FC5-DVD. I was quite surprised that the installer kicked me out of the installation progress because:
- I symlinked /var/cache/yum to another partition. The installer didn't like that.
- in /var I symlinked tmp to ../dev/shm while /tmp was a symlink to var/tmp. The installer didn't like that.
And I still cannot understand why the installer complained about insufficient hard disk space - I had about 550 MiB free on /usr before my first upgrade attempt. The installer complained. So I removed openoffice, parts of gnome etc. pp. so I had 700 MiB free on /usr. The installer complained. Well after removing torcs and other seldom-used stuff I had about 1.3 GiB free. The installer liked that. After my successful upgrade I still had 1.3GiB free.. wtf?! Well, nevermind. Reinstalling torcs and openoffice is done in a jiffy. But I'm quite disappointed that I had to reboot every time the installer had something to complain - I had a shell on tty2 and I was able to uninstall some packages in a chrooted environment, so why doesn't the installer include a button "retry"?

Okay, so I finished my upgrade.

After booting my brand new FC5 X didn't came up which is quite natural to me because I'm using nvidia's closed source drivers and the upgrade included a kernel update and an X upgrade. So I installed the nvidia drivers using their tar.gz but since FC5 relocated the X tree from /usr/X11 to /usr X was unable to load the nvidia modules. Tried livna.org's kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-driver-nvidia (or something like that) but there was an unresolved symbol in libGL.. whatever. I installed xorg-x11-server-sdk and reinstalled nvidia's stuff from source. Worked.
Next thing is that my Microsoft Trackball explorer (USB) mouse buttons were not remapped, my .Xmodmap was ignored because the "pointer" line now required 4 buttons supplementary (I have 7 mouse buttons and I need to remap 11). Okay, fixed.

But what really pissed me off (sorry):
- cedega isn't working any more, it's just segfaulting.
- xfce4-panel is crashing very often with some glibc violations regarding free() and stuff (where the heck is the X session log gone?)
- KDE applications won't work anymore because kbuildsycoca crashes every time:

~$ kdevelop
kbuildsycoca running...
KCrash: Application 'kbuildsycoca' crashing...
kdeinit: Shutting down running client.

The dialogue says:

KBuildSyscoca - The KDE Crash Handler
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The application KBuildSyscoca (kbuildsyscoca) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

(backtrace):

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
`shared object read from target memory' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1209051472 (LWP 15991)]
(no debugging symbols found)
[KCrash handler]
#6 0x01492eeb in QString::QString () from /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#7 0x013ea593 in QDomElement::tagName ()
from /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#8 0x00bd01a8 in VFolderMenu::markUsedApplications ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#9 0x00bd0ae7 in VFolderMenu::layoutMenu ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#10 0x00bd09d6 in VFolderMenu::layoutMenu ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#11 0x00bd09d6 in VFolderMenu::layoutMenu ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#12 0x00bd09d6 in VFolderMenu::layoutMenu ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#13 0x00be0baa in VFolderMenu::parseMenu ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#14 0x00be3b89 in KBuildSycoca::build ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#15 0x00be40f2 in KBuildSycoca::recreate ()
from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#16 0x00be4a84 in kdemain () from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kbuildsycoca.so
#17 0x001a6544 in kdeinitmain () from /usr/lib/kde3/kbuildsycoca.so
#18 0x0804e3bf in ?? ()
#19 0x0804eb09 in ?? ()
#20 0x0804f008 in ?? ()
#21 0x0804fb2d in ?? ()
#22 0x009817e4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#23 0x0804b7b1 in ?? ()

Maybe someone can give me a clue on how to fix this, please?

btw - this was for my desktop computer. My laptop (which got a fresh FC5 install) works fine regarding KDE applications. But since there's no 3d-chip installed I cannot test whether or not cedega works. xfce4-panel also crashes sometimes on my fresh FC5-installed laptop.

[Uhu]

xfce4-panel doesn't crash anymore after deleting the .config directory in my home but still kde applications cannot be started because of kbuildsycoca. Neither upgrading to kde 3.5.2 / qt 3.3.6 (development repository) nor using a fresh user profile did help :\

[Uhu]

Originally Posted by Uhu

- cedega isn't working any more, it's just segfaulting.

Solved.

- xfce4-panel is crashing very often with some glibc violations regarding free() and stuff (where the heck is the X session log gone?)

Still crashes randomly but seldom. I can live with that.

- KDE applications won't work anymore because kbuildsycoca crashes every time:

Solved.

[X-Jester]

Can you actually run anything with cedega in fc5? No matter what I try and run, i just get a freeze. It happens to a lot of people according to transgaming forums.

The cedega window opens fine, but as soon as you try to do anything it freezes.

[Uhu]

I have cedega 4.3.2 installed because the more recent versions have GL bugs like no texture shown and stuff. Runs fine after I disabled the exec-shield, with exec-shield enabled it segfaults immediately. I didn't had that problem with FC4 though.
Other problem was that cedega could not find the truetype fonts so I copied them into cedega's Windows/Fonts folder. But now it works as good as with FC4.

[Nebuchadneza]

Hello Uhu!

I have the same problem as you have with kbuildsycoca. Though I haven't upgraded to FC5 on this machine yet.

How did you solve this problem? It's really annoying cause nothing really works. Crashing Dialogs all the time... Tried to upgrade/downgrade KDE and qt several times, but it didn't help.

I would very much appreciate your help.

[casio]

Originally Posted by Nebuchadneza

Hello Uhu!

I have the same problem as you have with kbuildsycoca. Though I haven't upgraded to FC5 on this machine yet.

How did you solve this problem? It's really annoying cause nothing really works. Crashing Dialogs all the time... Tried to upgrade/downgrade KDE and qt several times, but it didn't help.

I would very much appreciate your help.

If You have the Crossover Office Installed!?, This could be the solution :
(Atleast it solved the problem for me)

Edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/cxlegacy.menu to this :
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<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<!-- File Created by CrossOver Office cxmenu -->
<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>
<Menu>

<LegacyDir>/opt/cxoffice/support/xdg-legacy-menus</LegacyDir>
</Menu>
</Menu>

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[akinokaze]

Thanks a lot, I have been trying to solve the kbuildsycoca problem for weeks and this actually helps.
I guess its because the XML format is incorrect?

Originally Posted by casio

If You have the Crossover Office Installed!?, This could be the solution :
(Atleast it solved the problem for me)

Edit /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/cxlegacy.menu to this :
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<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<!-- File Created by CrossOver Office cxmenu -->
<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>
<Menu>

<LegacyDir>/opt/cxoffice/support/xdg-legacy-menus</LegacyDir>
</Menu>
</Menu>

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