[Xastir] RasPi upgrade continued ...

[Lee Bengston]

I did some googling yesterday and found several cases of the lxpanel
disappearing on various platforms with the lxde desktop. Some went back to
2010. Was hard to tell if anyone found a definitive solution.

Lee - K5DAT


On Aug 31, 2017 11:52 AM, "Rob Noll" <rob at nollmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting find...  FWIW, my Pi is on Jessie and I have the
> disappearing-panel problem, and I do think I did an apt-get
> update/upgrade/autoremove not long ago.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xastir [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Jason
> KG4WSV
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:49 AM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] RasPi upgrade continued ...
>
> I've replicated the problem.  Started with a relatively clean Jessie, did
> the upgrade to Stretch, logged in to a panel at the top of the screen (ala
> Jessie). ran xastir.  lxpanel went away.
> ~/.cache/lxsession/LXDE/run.log has some rather unhelpful error messages.
>
> for grins, ran lxsession from the terminal window.  Got a different style
> of
> panel at the bottom of the screen.  ran xatir, got several "error in
> lxpanel: corrupted double-linked list".
>
> as part of the upgrade process I did an apt-get autoremove, which
> apparently
> removed a bunch of the development packages required for an install, since
> there are now .h files missing.
>
> did another apt-get update, only sees 2 sources (used to have ~20?)
>
> this update process is very suspect.  not sure I have a working system
> anymore.
>
>
> IMO, if you have a burning desire to upgrade to stretch, stifle it.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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