Problems after GCC migration

[smolloy]

I have just finished migrating from GCC3.3 to 3.4 as in these instructions. I chose the second (longer option).

After completing this I have noticed two problems.
1/ When booting into Gentoo I get a lot of error messages like the following,

rm: Unable to remove: '/sys/...': Operation not permitted

Hundreds of similar messages scroll by very quickly, each one with a different file in /sys
2/ idesk will not start. If I try to run it from a terminal it gives the following message,

smolloy@tux ~ $ idesk
 Idesk starting in :0.0
[idesk] Background's source not found.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::ios_base::failure'
  what():  basic_filebuf::underflow error reading the file
Aborted

I unmerged and re-emerged it with no success.

Can anyone offer any suggestions??

[sarumont]

1) Can you boot a liveCD and remove /sys/* ?

2) Have you tried a different version?

[smolloy]

1) Can you boot a liveCD and remove /sys/* ?

I've got a couple of liveCDs I could use. Is it safe to remove /sys?? Like the following??

rm -rf /mnt/gentoo/sys

I was thinking about doing that, but it sounds like it could break something!

2) Have you tried a different version?

I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean to use a different version of idesk, or to give up on it and use conky or gkrellm or something like that??

Thanks for the fast response sarumont -- I appreciate it.

[smolloy]

I might recompile everything with the new GCC to be sure,

emerge -e system
emerge -e system
emerge -e world
emerge -e world

I'll do it twice like that to make sure it works. Sure, it'll take a loooooong time, but it's worth a shot. Unless anyone has any suggestions??

I had a look at the FHS and I couldn't find anything about /sys -- what is it used for?? Can anyone confirm for me that it would be OK for me to remove /sys from gentoo using a liveCD? Will this be regenerated when I next boot into gentoo??

[smolloy]

So I just did the re-compile of everything as described in my previous post (took 5 days!), and I am left with the same problems. idesk refuses to start, and gives me the error I posted at the top of this thread, and I get a the same error messages on boot about not being able to remove /sys.

Tonite I'm going to rename /sys to /sys.bak to see if the computer can boot without it (and hopefully will generate a new /sys).

I'm completely stuck when it comes to the idesk problem. I really liked the way I had it set up and would love to get my icons back. I googled on the error (see the first post of this thread) and I think it is some error with compiling, but I have no idea what to do since I have recompiled my whole system so many times.

Can anyone help me get my icons back??

[smolloy]

Tonite I'm going to rename /sys to /sys.bak to see if the computer can boot without it (and hopefully will generate a new /sys).

This worked fine. No problems.

Just have to get idesk started now -- any ideas??

[smolloy]

No one has any suggestions??

I'd love to either,
1/ Fix idesk -- I've spent a while configuring it, and I'd love if someone could help me get it working again.
2/ Get icons on fluxbox another way.

Thanks guys.

[drakebasher]

Since re-emerging, have you tried going through idesk's set-up procedure? See section "Setup" here.