[SOLVED] MCC and Add/Remove software GUI can no longer run

[jtmh]

My system was installed with the Mageia-2-alpha1-LiveCD-KDE4-Asia-Noindia-i586-CD iso, and applied all updates up to Mageia 2 final. I didn't change the repos from Cauldron to 2.

Today, I installed rkhunter using Add/Remove software GUI (which was started from within the MCC), and while the installation, there was a dialog saying some dependencies (perl-xxx-x.x.x-x.mga3, drakconf-xxx-x.x.x-x.mga3, etc.) need to be installed. I installed all the dependencies and upon completion of the installation, the MCC and Add/Remove software GUI both disappeared (I remembered I didn't close their windows).

After that, I am no longer able to open either the MCC or the Add/Remove software GUI, i.e., I click on their icons, enter the admin password, and no windows appear. There seems some big problem occurring. And now, if I try using rpmdrake command in Konsole, it ends with the following message:

*** This build of Glib was compiled with glib 2.32.3, but is currently running with 2.32.1, which is too old. We'll continue, but expect problems!
Cannot be run in console mode.

Could anyone help me fix my system? Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Please post the output of

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rpm -qa | grep mga3

And please use code-tags for that, explained here: ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/rpm/extra ... e_tags.ogv
As you didn't change away from the cauldron repos, chances are a big pile of cauldron packages has already been installed on your system.
Depending on the number and how firm you're in a terminal, it's probably easier, faster and more convenient to reinstall Mageia 2 but keep your /home.

[jtmh]

Please post the output of

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rpm -qa | grep mga3

And please use code-tags for that, explained here: ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/rpm/extra ... e_tags.ogv

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drakx-finish-install-14.21-1.mga3
perl-File-Sync-0.110.0-1.mga3
perl-Glib-1.260.0-1.mga3
harddrake-14.21-1.mga3
perl-Time-Piece-1.200.0-6.mga3
perl-Archive-Tar-1.860.0-1.mga3
perl-XML-LibXML-1.950.0-1.mga3
perl-Filesys-Df-0.920.0-7.mga3
drakxtools-backend-14.21-1.mga3
perl-XML-Parser-2.410.0-1.mga3
perl-Data-Dumper-2.131.0-4.mga3
perl-File-FnMatch-0.20.0-6.mga3
perl-CPANPLUS-0.912.0-2.mga3
perl-HTML-Parser-3.690.0-1.mga3
perl-FCGI-0.740.0-4.mga3
perl-Gtk2-1.244.0-1.mga3
drakxtools-14.21-1.mga3
perl-Gtk2-Notify-0.50.0-5.mga3
perl-WWW-Curl-4.150.0-6.mga3
perl-pcsc-perl-1.4.12-2.mga3
perl-Pango-1.223-2.mga3
drakxtools-curses-14.21-1.mga3
perl-Gtk2-SourceView2-0.100.0-6.mga3
perl-YAML-Syck-1.200.0-2.mga3
perl-DBI-1.618.0-3.mga3
perl-base-5.16.0-6.mga3
perl-Net-DBus-1.0.0-2.mga3
userdrake-1.13.6-2.mga3
perl-List-MoreUtils-0.330.0-1.mga3
perl-Term-ReadKey-2.30-13.mga3
perl-URPM-3.40-1.1.mga3
perl-Gtk2-WebKit-0.90.0-4.mga3
perl-Module-Build-0.400.0-1.mga3
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-12.mga3
perl-Locale-gettext-1.50.0-6.mga3
perl-Module-CoreList-2.670.0-2.mga3
perl-5.16.0-6.mga3
harddrake-ui-14.21-1.mga3
perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.580.0-8.mga3
perl-Cairo-1.91_1-1.mga3
perl-Gnome2-Vte-0.100.0-2.mga3
perl-Curses-1.280.0-8.mga3


As you didn't change away from the cauldron repos, chances are a big pile of cauldron packages has already been installed on your system.
Depending on the number and how firm you're in a terminal, it's probably easier, faster and more convenient to reinstall Mageia 2 but keep your /home.

If there is still any chance to fix my system, I'd like to try it. I think I have a basic experience in a terminal, so please give me some hints for fixing my system. Thank you for the quick reply.

[doktor5000]

Please post the output of

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urpmq --list-media active

and

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urpmq --list-url

[jtmh]

Please post the output of

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urpmq --list-media active

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Core Release (distrib31)
Core Updates (distrib33)
Core Backports (distrib37)
Nonfree Release (distrib41)
Nonfree Updates (distrib43)
Nonfree Backports (distrib47)
Tainted Release (distrib51)
Tainted Updates (distrib53)
Tainted Backports (distrib57)
Core Release (distrib61)
Core Updates (distrib63)
Core Backports (distrib67)
Nonfree Release (distrib71)
Nonfree Updates (distrib73)
Nonfree Backports (distrib77)
Tainted Release (distrib81)
Tainted Updates (distrib83)
Tainted Backports (distrib87)
Core Updates (distrib91)
Nonfree Updates (distrib92)
Tainted Updates (distrib93)


and

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urpmq --list-url

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Core Release (distrib31) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release
Core Release Debug (distrib32) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/core/release
Core Updates (distrib33) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/updates
Core Updates Debug (distrib34) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/core/updates
Core Updates Testing (distrib35) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/updates_testing
Core Updates Testing Debug (distrib36) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/core/updates_testing
Core Backports (distrib37) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/backports
Core Backports Debug (distrib38) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/core/backports
Core Backports Testing (distrib39) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/backports_testing
Core Backports Testing Debug (distrib40) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/core/backports_testing
Nonfree Release (distrib41) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree Release Debug (distrib42) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/nonfree/release
Nonfree Updates (distrib43) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/updates
Nonfree Updates Debug (distrib44) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/nonfree/updates
Nonfree Updates Testing (distrib45) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/updates_testing
Nonfree Updates Testing Debug (distrib46) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/nonfree/updates_testing
Nonfree Backports (distrib47) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/backports
Nonfree Backports Debug (distrib48) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/nonfree/backports
Nonfree Backports Testing (distrib49) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/backports_testing
Nonfree Backports Testing Debug (distrib50) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/nonfree/backports_testing
Tainted Release (distrib51) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/release
Tainted Release Debug (distrib52) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/tainted/release
Tainted Updates (distrib53) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/updates
Tainted Updates Debug (distrib54) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/tainted/updates
Tainted Updates Testing (distrib55) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/updates_testing
Tainted Updates Testing Debug (distrib56) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/tainted/updates_testing
Tainted Backports (distrib57) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/backports
Tainted Backports Debug (distrib58) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/tainted/backports
Tainted Backports Testing (distrib59) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/backports_testing
Tainted Backports Testing Debug (distrib60) http://mageia.webconquest.com/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/debug/tainted/backports_testing
Core Release (distrib61) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release
Core Updates (distrib63) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/updates
Core Backports (distrib67) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/backports
Nonfree Release (distrib71) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/release
Nonfree Updates (distrib73) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/updates
Nonfree Backports (distrib77) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/backports
Tainted Release (distrib81) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/release
Tainted Updates (distrib83) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/updates
Tainted Backports (distrib87) ftp://twiska.zarb.org/mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/backports
Core Updates (distrib91) http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/updates
Nonfree Updates (distrib92) http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/nonfree/updates
Tainted Updates (distrib93) http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/tainted/updates


[doktor5000]

Ok, first the easy part, remove all your repos and readd them as Mageia 2 repos:

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urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia --distrib ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/2/i586

You can also use any other mirror there, but i don't know if the 2 taiwanese mirrors are reliable or sync often, but one of our sysadmins told me both synced ~5 hours ago, and as you can see both have a 1GBit link, so speed should be OK for both of those. You can have a look at http://mirrors.mageia.org/ where you can also filter by country ...

Now for the more complicated part, you need to download all correspondent mga2 packages to the mga3 packages you got by that last command manually into some directory, and from there just do

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rpm --oldpackage ./*.rpm

Currently there is no equivalent functionality in urpmi to downgrade packages, or at least none that i know of, and also no convenient one-liner, or none that comes to my mind when only using rpm.

BTW:

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urpmq --sources name_of_package

will show you the path on the mirror to see which repo it comes from.
Pay attention to query only for the name of the packages.

[tac]

Hi,

I posted without any search
so perhaps you have the same problem:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2696

Try to edit:
/usr/lib/libDrakX/common.pm

search at line 399:

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sub check_for_xserver() {


Just add below:

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    return true;


T++

Edit:
this is just a test, not the good solution for your problem!

[doktor5000]

Well, he's got a totally different problem, and also a different root cause for that problem ...

[jtmh]

Now for the more complicated part, you need to download all correspondent mga2 packages to the mga3 packages you got by that last command manually into some directory, and from there just do

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rpm --oldpackage ./*.rpm

Sorry, but after I run the command above, rpm says

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rpm：only installation and upgrading may be forced

[jtmh]

Now for the more complicated part, you need to download all correspondent mga2 packages to the mga3 packages you got by that last command manually into some directory, and from there just do

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rpm --oldpackage ./*.rpm

Sorry, but after I run the command above, rpm says

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rpm：only installation and upgrading may be forced

I do a search and find the command below may work:

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rpm -Uvh --oldpackage ./*.rpm

and it does work. My system is OK now. Thank you both, doktor5000 and tac.

[doktor5000]

Sorry, but after I run the command above, rpm says

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rpm：only installation and upgrading may be forced

Sorry, hadn't used that since years and type out of my memory. But as it tells you and as you found out you would have only needed to use rpm -i [or -U for upgrade as you did, which means the same in this context] --oldpackage some.rpm

[tac]

Well, he's got a totally different problem, and also a different root cause for that problem ...

Sorry I'm too tired, I only read mcc failed from console