[Ubuntu] Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems
with 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries
Etienne Tourigny
etourigny.dev at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 09:17:20 EST 2011
I removed qgis-sqlanywhere last week as I don't use it, so I guess I
would have experienced the same problem.
Etienne
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had the problem again after apgrading to qgis 1.7.3.
> The cause was qgis-sqlanywhere1.7.2. Removing it and installing
> qgis-sqlanywhere1.7.3 fixed the problem.
>
> Agus
>
> 2011/12/13 Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
>> Yesterday upgraded to 1.7.3, libqgis1.7.2 is still installed but QGis loads ok.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Etienne Tourigny
>> <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems with
>>> 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries
>>> To: tech at wildintellect.com
>>> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org, ubuntu at lists.osgeo.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> I created a ticket in trac, launchpad does not me file a ticket (and
>>> there isn't much activity there anyway)
>>>
>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/ticket/19
>>>
>>> Etienne
>>> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>>> The mailing list is on osgeo:
>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu
>>>>
>>>> I should probably put that on launchpad somewhere.
>>>>
>>>> Bug reporting should be possible if you have a launchpad account, hmm or
>>>> were we using a trac instance for that. I'll have to go check.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On 12/04/2011 11:01 AM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>>>>> I just ran into that same problem myself, using Ubuntu 11.04.
>>>>>
>>>>> I upgraded qgis to 1.7.2 through synaptic, and got the "Could not open
>>>>> CRS database /resources/srs.db<br>Error(14): unable to
>>>>> open database file!" error. I had to uninstall qgis and then
>>>>> re-install to get it working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where do I file a bug report for ubuntugis packages? The mailing
>>>>> list is not active, and the launchpad bugs page does not let me add a
>>>>> bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntugis).
>>>>> Subscription policy: shows "Restricted Team".
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are my QGis packages, there is no reason for multiple libqgis
>>>>> packages (1.7.0 and 1.7.1).
>>>>>
>>>>> In my opinion. libqgis.1.x.y should be named only "libqgis" for ease
>>>>> of use, and the old versions would not be left around causing this
>>>>> bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> ii libqgis1.7.0 1.7.0~natty1
>>>>> Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
>>>>> libqgis1.7.1 1.7.1-1~natty1
>>>>> Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
>>>>> libqgis1.7.2 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> Quantum GIS - shared librariesii
>>>>> python-qgis 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> Python bindings to Quantum GISii
>>>>> python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> Python bindings to Quantum GIS -
>>>>> architecture-independent filesii qgis
>>>>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> Geographic Information System (GIS)ii qgis-common
>>>>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii qgis-plugin-grass
>>>>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> GRASS plugin for Quantum GISii qgis-plugin-grass-common
>>>>> 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> GRASS plugin for Quantum GIS - architecture-independent dataii
>>>>> qgis-providers 1.7.2-1~natty1
>>>>> collection of data providers to Quantum
>>>>> GISii qgis-providers-common
>>>>> 1.7.2-1~natty1 collection of data
>>>>> providers to Quantum GIS - architecture-independent files
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Etienne
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I think another way to phrase the question is why doesn't the deb (FYI
>>>>>> packages via the update tools are deb files) have a conflict rule that
>>>>>> removes the old version?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So if you have
>>>>>> libqgis1.7.2
>>>>>> there should be a conflict rule saying to remove other versions of
>>>>>> libqgis1.7.0 libqgis1.7.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's a little more work to maintain but solves both issues of knowing
>>>>>> exactly which version a user has and cleaning up on upgrade.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/30/2011 09:27 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>>>>>> Just clarifying I was updating through the update manager of ubuntu,
>>>>>>> not through the deb files.
>>>>>>> Agus
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2011/12/1 Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> I think I misunderstood the problem, the ubuntugis-unstable repos only
>>>>>>>> allows 1 version of qgis installed at a time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you need to uninstall qgis-1.7.0 before upgraging to 1.7.2, then
>>>>>>>> there surely must be a problem with the upgrade process in the .deb?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David J. Bakeman <dbakeman at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> shouldn't qgis be packaged in such a way to avoid multiple (minor)
>>>>>>>>>> versions of QGIS?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> i.e. change the package names to 1.7 instead of 1.7.0 / 1.7.1 / 1.7.2 ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There really is no need to have the old packages around, especially
>>>>>>>>>> with this issue.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I respectfully disagree. It's not that the old packages need to be around
>>>>>>>>> it's that they are
>>>>>>>>> out there already.
>>>>>>>>> People have them some people either can't or won't be
>>>>>>>>> able to upgrade
>>>>>>>>> them and when those people have questions it's important that the developers
>>>>>>>>> and others
>>>>>>>>> know exactly what version of the software is being discussed.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>> Etienne
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Noli Sicad<nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> reproduced the problem by installing on another machine with ubuntu
>>>>>>>>>>>> 10.04 . Running qgis from the command line I get:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> alobo at delia:~$ qgis
>>>>>>>>>>>> Warning: loading of qgis translation failed
>>>>>>>>>>>> [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
>>>>>>>>>>>> Warning: loading of qt translation failed
>>>>>>>>>>>> [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
>>>>>>>>>>>> Warning: Couldn't load Python support library: Cannot load library
>>>>>>>>>>>> /lib/qgispython: (/lib/libqgispython.so: cannot open shared object
>>>>>>>>>>>> file: No such file or directory)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In ubuntu 10.04 Lucid, you have to install
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> - python-qgis 1.7.2~Lucid1
>>>>>>>>>>> - python-qgis-common 1.7.2-1~Lucid1
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> If you upgrade from other version (e.g. 1.7.0), you have to remove
>>>>>>>>>>> first the old version then install 1.7.2.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Noli
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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