[Ubuntu] Re: [Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Critical problems with 1.7.2 from ubuntu binaries

Agustin Lobo alobolistas at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 08:34:43 EST 2011


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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