From georgeparker20 at googlemail.com Tue Dec 28 12:48:36 2010 From: georgeparker20 at googlemail.com (george parker) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:48:36 -0500 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria will not open Message-ID: <201012281248.36242.georgeparker20@googlemail.com> I have used Alexandria for some time with no problems. I run Simply Mepis, a debian based distro and have recently upgraded to version 8.5 which has KDE 4. Alexandria installs (ver 0.6.1_1) in synaptic but will not run. If I run it from a terminal it gives a message: ruby1.8: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/gtk2.so: undefined symbol: gtk_file_system_error_quark I have installed the latest version which gives the same result with an additional message: W, [2010-12-28T12:44:46.702997 #10951] WARN -- [Cls Alexandria::BookProviders]: Can't load 'hpricot' and 'htmlentities', hence AdLibris, Barnes & Noble, DeaStore, Proxis, Siciliano, Thalia and Worldcat book providers will not be available I'm not too bothered about that as I saw a reference to it on another post. Any ideas? George From lennart at karssen.org Wed Dec 29 09:13:21 2010 From: lennart at karssen.org (L.C. Karssen) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:13:21 +0100 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria will not open In-Reply-To: <201012281248.36242.georgeparker20@googlemail.com> References: <201012281248.36242.georgeparker20@googlemail.com> Message-ID: <1293632001.2322.5.camel@sidonia> Hi George, On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 12:48 -0500, george parker wrote: > I have used Alexandria for some time with no problems. I run Simply Mepis, a > debian based distro and have recently upgraded to version 8.5 which has KDE > 4. Alexandria installs (ver 0.6.1_1) in synaptic but will not run. If I run > it from a terminal it gives a message: > > ruby1.8: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/gtk2.so: undefined > symbol: gtk_file_system_error_quark I guess that, since gtk is the Gnome Toolkit and your distro is using KDE, the gtk libraries are not installed. Looking at my Ubuntu install, the package might be named libgtk2.0-0. Please try to install the gtk libraries and report back. I guess the real problem is that the alexandria package (or any of its dependencies) doesn't depend on the gtk libraries. Lennart Karssen. > > I have installed the latest version which gives the same result with an > additional message: > > W, [2010-12-28T12:44:46.702997 #10951] WARN -- [Cls > Alexandria::BookProviders]: Can't load 'hpricot' and 'htmlentities', hence > AdLibris, Barnes & Noble, DeaStore, Proxis, Siciliano, Thalia and Worldcat > book providers will not be available > > I'm not too bothered about that as I saw a reference to it on another post. > > Any ideas? > > George > _______________________________________________ > Alexandria-list mailing list > Alexandria-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- L.C. Karssen Utrecht The Netherlands lennart at karssen.org http://blog.karssen.org Stuur me aub geen Word of Powerpoint bestanden! Zie http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.nl.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From georgeparker20 at googlemail.com Wed Dec 29 11:52:13 2010 From: georgeparker20 at googlemail.com (george parker) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:52:13 -0500 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria will not open Message-ID: <201012291152.13602.georgeparker20@googlemail.com> Hi Lennart, I don't think the GTK libraries are the problem. I have libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgtk2-ruby1.8 all installed. As I say, Alexandria worked previously with KDE 3.5 but refuses on KDE 4. George From ras at acm.org Wed Dec 29 12:30:18 2010 From: ras at acm.org (Robert A. Schmied) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:30:18 -0800 Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria will not open In-Reply-To: <201012291152.13602.georgeparker20@googlemail.com> References: <201012291152.13602.georgeparker20@googlemail.com> Message-ID: <4D1B702A.5040604@acm.org> george parker wrote: > Hi Lennart, > > I don't think the GTK libraries are the problem. I have > > libgtk2.0-0 > libgtk2.0-common > libgtk2-ruby1.8 > > all installed. As I say, Alexandria worked previously with KDE 3.5 but > refuses on KDE 4. > > George > _______________________________________________ > Alexandria-list mailing list > Alexandria-list at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list > based on this and your original post i did a google on find gtk_file_system_error_quark man page and found a number (38) of reports about undefined symbol: gtk_file_system_error_quark maybe you need to investigate on that edge aloha ras ps -- on my solaris sparc i have that symbol in /usr/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1200.0 which is one of my local libs, not the 'official' platform version which is at /usr/sfw/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1, but possibly more interesting is that my ruby gtk2 lib ( /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.10/gtk2.so ) doesn't refer to that symbol. closest i get is the gnome_vfs_error_quark symbol. -- ras