<div class="iw"><span name="Anil Kiral" class="gD">Thanks to <br><br>Anil Kiral</span> <span class="go"><br><br>for sending me the file permissions.<br><br>I have no idea how /var got that screwed up but they are fixed thanks to you.<br>
<br>Thanks to everyone else also for their suggestions<br><br>This has now allowed me to find and fix the other problem which turned out to be googleearth</span><br></div><pre>ldd `which kde4-config` | grep Qt
libQtCore.so.4 => /opt/google/earth/free/libQtCore.so.4 (0x07cfa000)
libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 (0x00634000)
libQtNetwork.so.4 => /opt/google/earth/free/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0x0053a000)
libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 (0x004ac000)<br><br>As a quick and dirty fix I have just renamed the directory free to freexxx.<br>Googleearth doesn't run but everything else seems fine.<br><br>Stripes<br>
</pre><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 July 2013 23:42, stripes theotoky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com" target="_blank">stripes.theotoky@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">More progress,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> ls -alR /var > permissions<br>
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> and send me the permissions file.<br>
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</div>Can you not get that from some weird incantation with "apt-get" to list<br>
the package files and permissions?<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Probably but I don't know how. It is something I must research in case I ever have to do this again.<br><br>Reset all the file ownerships in /var (the permissions file was 180 pages so it has taken a while to work though it.) I didn't change the permissions just the owners and it seems to have worked.<br>
<br>system boots<br><br>apt-get update<br>apt-get dist-upgrade<br>apt-get -f install<br><br>No errors<br><br>which is much better than it was before.<br>Still drops me to the command line.<br><br>cat /var/log/kdm.log gives this error<br>
<br>/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: symbol look up error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtSvg-so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK14QWidgetPrivate17hasHeightForWidthEv<br><br>Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.<br>
<br>I get similar errors in trying to start dolphin, kate, kile.<br><br>So at present I can log into the command line. <br>startx gives me lnusertemp error<br>xinit starts an x term where I can start some graphical software not dependent on libQtSvg<br>
<br>Very odd really.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br>Stripes<br> <br></font></span></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Good your system proved clean with Memtest86+ and fsck. Always good to<br>
be sure the hardware isn't causing randomness...<br>
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Let us know how this unfolds!<br>
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Good luck,<br>
<div>Martin<br>
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