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avant-window-navigator package

Cannot remove all traces of avant-window-navigator

Bug #524360 reported by Vicente Iborra
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Binary package hint: avant-window-navigator

I'm running Linux Mint - Helena (Ubuntu 9.10), I had a look at the Linux Mint web site, but didn't see a way to register a bug report there, so I thought I'd do so here. Please let me know if I should be doing this somewhere else.

I installed Avant Window Navigator through the "Software Manager" and set it to automatically start on login. I played for a little while with it, but decided that it wasn't for me. I've tried removing it using the following.

1. I went to uninstall it through the "Software Manager" but with no effect (it still appeared at the bottom of the screen).

2. I then used "Synaptic Manager" to see if there were any "*awn*" or "*avant*" packages still installed, there were some, which I completely removed, with no change.

3. I then performed a "find / -name "*awn*" -name "*avant*" -print" to find any related files to remove manually, some were found, which I removed, with no change.

4. I then hand edited the /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml (which I know I shouldn't, but couldn't think of anything else), and removed all the entries referring to awn and avant, with no change.

Throughout all these changes, I've tried re-login in, and restarting the machine, but awn still shows at the bottom of the screen.

The only thing that has any effect, is if I turn off the Visual Effects.... of course AWN requires this, so I guess no great mystery that it doesn't run when these are turned off.

I've tried googling for this problem, others have had similar problem but they seem to have resolved through one of the above steps. It seems quite a mystery how it could run, If I've removed any relevant files..... Could something (compiz, gnome, ?) be caching the executables somewhere?

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

If you removed avant-window-navigator-data, libawn0, libawn1, avant-window-navigator-data-trunk, libawn0-trunk, libawn1-trunk, you should have removed all traces of Awn. If not, it's a problem on your system.

Closing this bug as Invalid, as it's seems to be a local problem.

Changed in avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Vicente Iborra (vicente-iborra)
Changed in avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Incomplete
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Vicente Iborra (vicente-iborra) wrote :

I have verified by doing find commands from the root directory and the files specified don't show up, but avant navigator still displays. Should I be removing them from somewhere else apart from the filesystem? Some database or something?

I'm a little surprised by the "it's a problem on your system" comment.... I've used the system tools to remove it first, I only hacked around when these didn't work..... my system was a standard one up to this point.... I'm happy to trouble shoot my own issue, I'm just out of ideas because I can't seem to find the files in the filesystem, so hence I'm guessing it is not as straight forward as removing the filesystem files.

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote : Re: [Bug 524360] Re: Cannot remove all traces of avant-window-navigator

Do you check in /usr/local/bin or in /opt/ ? For me, it seems that it
was intalled somewhere in your PATH.
But, if you removed all packages, and it's still here, it's not a
problem in the packaging, and so it is not a problem from Ubuntu.

Julien Lavergne

Le 6 avr. 2010 à 10:17, Vicente Iborra <email address hidden> a
écrit :

> I have verified by doing find commands from the root directory and the
> files specified don't show up, but avant navigator still displays.
> Should I be removing them from somewhere else apart from the
> filesystem?
> Some database or something?
>
> I'm a little surprised by the "it's a problem on your system"
> comment.... I've used the system tools to remove it first, I only
> hacked
> around when these didn't work..... my system was a standard one up to
> this point.... I'm happy to trouble shoot my own issue, I'm just out
> of
> ideas because I can't seem to find the files in the filesystem, so
> hence
> I'm guessing it is not as straight forward as removing the filesystem
> files.
>
> --
> Cannot remove all traces of avant-window-navigator
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524360
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
> avant-
> window-navigator in ubuntu.

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Vicente Iborra (vicente-iborra) wrote :

Julien,

I've checked in the whole filesystem, that's why it's such a mystery...
when it is running, I don't even see a process running with avant or awn
or anything like that.... it's very odd.

With regards to "if you removed all packages.... it's not a problem in
the packaging", isn't part of the packaging process to remove things
properly?.... that's what I did first.

I'm quite an old hand with regards to Unix, maybe not so much with the
gnome desktop, could you let us know whether awn works the same as other
processes... or whether it does something fancy (runs as part of an
existing desktop component), or point me in the right direction (faq,
etc)?

I'm starting to consider reinstalling the OS, but it does seem rather
drastic.

Thanks
Vince

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 10:06 +0000, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> Do you check in /usr/local/bin or in /opt/ ? For me, it seems that it
> was intalled somewhere in your PATH.
> But, if you removed all packages, and it's still here, it's not a
> problem in the packaging, and so it is not a problem from Ubuntu.
>
> Julien Lavergne
>
> Le 6 avr. 2010 à 10:17, Vicente Iborra <email address hidden> a
> écrit :
>
> > I have verified by doing find commands from the root directory and the
> > files specified don't show up, but avant navigator still displays.
> > Should I be removing them from somewhere else apart from the
> > filesystem?
> > Some database or something?
> >
> > I'm a little surprised by the "it's a problem on your system"
> > comment.... I've used the system tools to remove it first, I only
> > hacked
> > around when these didn't work..... my system was a standard one up to
> > this point.... I'm happy to trouble shoot my own issue, I'm just out
> > of
> > ideas because I can't seem to find the files in the filesystem, so
> > hence
> > I'm guessing it is not as straight forward as removing the filesystem
> > files.
> >
> > --
> > Cannot remove all traces of avant-window-navigator
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524360
> > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
> > avant-
> > window-navigator in ubuntu.
>

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in avant-window-navigator (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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