<div>On 10/30/07, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 10/30/2007 01:24 PM, Bob Cortez wrote: > On 10/30/07, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: >> >> On 10/28/2007 12:48 AM, Bob Cortez wrote: >> > All of a sudden both applications start to load and then simply >> close. No >> > error messages. I've removed both and reinstalled both independently of >> one >> > another. I haven't found any information about this in any of the usual >> > places. Anyone have any ideas? >> > >> >> Both are working here. Try 'sudo apt-get -f install', then 'purge' both >> and reinstalling - could be that a config file is affecting them. > > > No-op- > > Thanks for the reply. I got Rythmbox working. I removed some applications > running in the background at startup. However, I still can't pidgin to > work. The buddy list pops up and indicates 'connecting' but then after a > few seconds it quits and disappears. This is an older Dell Inspiron 8200 > laptop with 512 Ram. Could limited resources be the problem? I doubt it - this only has 512M & my other only has 256M, and I have it running on 384M on a 800Mhz processor. > > This is a production machine so I need to be careful that I don't render it > fubar and pidgin isn't a high priority. I installed Ayttm in the interim. > I'm a relative newbie so your patience is appreciated. I'm not sure I > undestand what will happen when I run apt-get -f install. sudo apt-get -f install man apt-get: <quote> -f, --fix-broken Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT to deduce a likely solution. Any Package that are specified must completely correct the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which usually means using dselect(8) or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together with -m may produce an error in some situations. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken. </quote> Go ahead & please run it; it won't hurt anything and will attempt to fix any problems that it encounters. I read the > terminal help and it says " -f Attempt to continue if the integrity check > fails". Does that mean it will try and fix any problems or conflicts it > discovers with the installation files? Also, when you say purge, would that > be in the form sudo apt-get purge pidgin ? Yes. That will also remove any previous configuration files associated with pidgin as well as the program/package itself. You can do the same from Synaptics by selecting pidgin, right click and selecting "Mark for Complete Removal". Once you've done that, then reinstall.</blockquote><div> Ok, ran -f install. No problems found. Suggested some packages that could removed as no longer required, so I removed them with autoremove. Purged pidgin, re-booted, installed pidgin, same symptoms. Buddy list window opens then closes. I thought maybe there were some old files from the gaim installation, so I purgeed gaim, not installed. There were some more autoremove files which I also ran again. Any other ideas? Thanks again. Bob </div> </div>