[GRASS-dev] [bug #5253] (grass) grass-fc4.rpm dependency breaks fontserver (xfs)

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Subject: grass-fc4.rpm dependency breaks fontserver (xfs)

Platform: GNU/Linux/x86
grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: grass-6.2.0-1.fdr.fc4.i386.rpm

Problem is not with GRASS, but with installation of GRASS from rpm, which caused xfs to fail and, therefore, X server to not start. Can be very frightening for non-computer people (i.e. me!). Details follow:

OS = FC5 (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5-i686 kernel) with latest updates (yum, as at 01 November 2006, excluding latest kernel and openoffice). Tcl=8.4.13. Nvidia driver from livna. Running Grass6.2.0RC1 compiled from source on FC2 a short time before upgrade to FC5. All running fine until 02 Nov 2006.  

Installed grass-6.2.0-1.fdr.fc4.i386.rpm on 01 November 2006 (immediately following yum update noted above), plus all other rpm's present at http://grass.itc.it/grass62/binary/linux/ to ensure up-to-date installation.

Following packages (most recent available) were also installed same date to satisfy dependencies claimed when installing grass-6.2.0-1.fdr.fc4.i386.rpm:
   1) xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.i386.rpm
   2) xorg-x11-Mesa-ligGL-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.i386.rpm

All appeared fine, but following first shut-down (for the night) and reboot on morning of 02 Nov 2006, X-server (per xorg.conf) could not init font path "unix/:7100 (font-server network link broken?), resulting in X server not being able to open default font 'fixed' (but font and index .dir and .alias files present, fontpaths all fine and identified), resulting in X-server not starting. Traced problem to one of the files (/usr/X11R6/lib/libFS.so.6?) in xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.i386.rpm package. Removing package (using --nodeps, as rpm installer complained that grass, mplayer, terraform and opendx all needed package) solved the problem. Curious thing, however, is that grass, mplayer and opendx all seem to function fine so far (and newer rpm of opendx installed fine) without this package!

Suggestion: review rpm spec for Grass as relates to dependency for shared libraries in xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.1.i386.rpm and/or other X-related packages.

Other than this incident, I am very pleased with the fine job developing this recent version of Grass ... hats off to a job well done folks!

Regards,
Rick



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