Re: Failure to load images with gpicview, mirage in Rawhide

2013-02-11 Thread Steven I Usdansky
  Finally found the culprit - gdk-pixbuf2.-- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Failure to load images with gpicview, mirage in Rawhide

2013-02-08 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Works fine in F18, Mint14, Ubuntu 12.10, so it's not the files.   > > From: moshe nahmias >To: Steven I Usdansky ; For testing and quality >assurance of Fedora releases >Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 2:08 AM >Subject: Re: Failure to lo

Failure to load images with gpicview, mirage in Rawhide

2013-02-07 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Rawhide, fully updated after being away for two weeks. I get a segfault when trying to load a jpg or png file in gpicview; mirage gives me a "Cannot load image" message in the status bar. No problems loading images in GIMP. Not sure which component is at fault. Ideas? -- test mailing list test@l

Re: Beware of rebooting in rawhide right now

2012-07-08 Thread Steven I Usdansky
After upgrading my Rawhide installation yesterday, I couldn't even reboot using an older kernel, so I got out the proverbial hammer and: 1. Reinstalled F17 LXDE spin 2. Update everything except kernel and polkit to Rawhide Crude but effective -- Steven I Usdansky, PhD Traveling Geol

LXDE errors in Rawhide

2012-01-09 Thread Steven I Usdansky
I'm getting a couple of errors running Rawhide LXDE - not sure if they're related, how to fix, or which components need to have bugs filed against them. Error #1 occurs when I start the session (I boot into runlevel 3 and start x via startx). lxsession is running. The error message:   GDBus.Error:

Re: FC17 and Dual boot...

2012-01-08 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Multibooting (F15, F16, Rawhide, Win7, Ubuntu) is working fine for me. Rawhide's grub2 in installed in the Rawhide partition, and it offers all of the above as options. Steven I Usdansky Traveling Geologist -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe:

Re: where is my aisleriot-solitaire in F16

2011-08-23 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Not yet present. However, the OpenSuSE has an rpm for aisleriot-3.1.0 I had to force installation due to the lack of a glib2-tools package in F16, but my card games appear to be back -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

F15 Pygtk2-Glade3 problem

2011-04-26 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Encountering errors trying to create a simple gui using pygtk2 with glade3. Top-level window is created and displays properly. When I add a box (no more VBox and Hbox) and attempt to display the window with its box, I get the error: vlcgtk.py:19: Warning: cannot create instance of abstract (non-i

pcmanfm-0.9.9-3-etc... requires hal-storage

2011-04-10 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Just upgraded by rawhide installation, and found that pcmanfm-0.9.9-3.gitbd677a9783.fc15.x86_64 requires hal-storage. I thought hal was history. Steve Usdansky Traveling Geologist -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listin

gnome-sudoku missing?

2011-04-09 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Went looking for gnome-sudoku today in F15 and didn't find it. Gone for good? ~$ rpm -q --provides gnome-games config(gnome-games) = 1:3.0.0-2.fc15 glchess = 1:3.0.0-2.fc15 gnome-sudoku = 1:3.0.0-2.fc15 gnome-games = 1:3.0.0-2.fc15 gnome-games(x86-64) = 1:3.0.0-2.fc15 ~$ rpm -ql gnome-games | gre

Problems with Pidgin

2011-03-27 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Running Rawhide, fully updated as of 13:47 CDT Mar 27. With libpurple-2.7.11-2.fc16.x86_64 pidgin-2.7.11-2.fc16.x86_64 I see nothing in the pidgin main window, even though I know several of my buddies are online. Downgrading to libpurple-2.7.11-2.fc15.x86_64 pidgin-2.7.11-2.fc15.x86_6

Rawhide startup strangeness

2011-03-20 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Not sure if this is probably related to the F15 not starting problem, but thought I'd report my experience. Upgraded my Rawhide installation earlier this morning (9:24 AM CDT). Shut down the computer and attempted to reboot into Rawhide. Boot process hung for at least three minutes, at which point

hal-free LXDE for Rawhide/F15?

2011-01-31 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Apparently, lxsession still requires hal, and pcmanfm still requires hal-storage-addon. Any chance these dependencies on hal will be eliminated by the time F15 is rolled out? -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinf

Re: F14 openbox upgrade requires metacity - wtf???

2010-10-22 Thread Steven I Usdansky
~$ rpm -e --test firstboot error: Failed dependencies: firstboot is needed by (installed) system-config-keyboard-1.3.1-2.fc14.x86_64 Not that I normally need to reconfigure my keyboard, but this doesn't seem right. Also, this is not the first time it's come up: http://lists.fedoraproject.or

F14 openbox upgrade requires metacity - wtf???

2010-10-22 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Looks like something is missing in openbox 3.4.11.2-5.fc14 yum upgrade openbox now wants to install metacity to satisfy the firstboot(windowmanager) dependency ~$ rpm -q --provides openbox config(openbox) = 3.4.11.2-4.fc14.1 firstboot(windowmanager) openbox = 3.4.11.2-4.fc14.1 openbox(x86-64) =

Re: F14 Beta RC3 (LXDE) Failures

2010-09-21 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message > From: Adam Williamson > To: For testers of Fedora development releases > Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 5:00:44 PM > Subject: Re: F14 Beta RC3 (LXDE) Failures > It's our fault; that text should be edited depending on whether special > images have been built or n

Re: F14 Beta RC3 (LXDE) Failures

2010-09-21 Thread Steven I Usdansky
To quote from the the page to which you provided the link: How to test 1. Download the ISO images for testing: please use either the DVD installer image, or the nightly live image for the desktop you wish to test. Not wanting to download a full set of DVDs, or do a net install, I down

F14 Beta RC3 (LXDE) Failures

2010-09-21 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Running lxde-x86_64-20100920.16.iso on a USB stick: 1. NetworkManager will not connect. Icon is present in panel, nearby networks are visible, but nothing happens when my network is selected. 2. Automount does not work. Inserting a USB stick pops up an error dialog with the message "Not Authoriz

lxde-x86_64-20100917.16.iso NetworkManager failure

2010-09-19 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Running from the USB flash drive, NetworkManager fails to do it's thing. The nm-applet displays properly in the panel, I click on it and see a list of available networks, I click on my home network (no encryption for this test), and absolutely nothing happens. Not sure where the problem lies. Th

dbus failure w/ NetworkManager-0.8.1-4git20100817 (x86_64)

2010-08-19 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Running updated F14-branched w/ LXDE x86_64 desktop. Updated NetworkManager to 0.8.1-4git20100817, but network connection failed upon reboot. Tried calling up nm-applet manually and got the following error (taken from /var/log/messages) Aug 19 14:55:48 Pyrope kernel: init[1]: D-Bus activation fail

Re: Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user) Follow-up

2010-08-15 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Eric John Nagel > wrote: > > I found the same for my rc3 install. I just finished the rc4 from 8-13, the > > mounting worked untill I did the 165 updates. > > Plus, the shutdown function was there before the updates, now it is gone as > > well. > > > >

Re: Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user) Follow-up

2010-08-15 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Downloaded and installed desktop-x86_64-20100812.16.iso Mounting my USB device worked as expected (i.e., automatic mounting by nautilus). Updated to current updates-testing as of approximately 30 minutes ago and rebooted. No more automounting; unable to mount via panel disk mounting applet

Re: Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user)

2010-08-13 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Cristoph: PREFERRED="ck-launch-session /usr/bin/startlxde" causes X to fail. PREFERRED=ck-launch-session /usr/bin/startlxde starts my LXDE session, but I still get the same Not Authorized error The Not Authorized error also occurs when booting into runlevel 5. -- test mailing list tes

Re: Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user)

2010-08-13 Thread Steven I Usdansky
- Original Message > From: TK009 > To: For testers of Fedora development releases > Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 2:57:18 PM > Subject: Re: Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user) > > > In the file > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf > > Section > > > > I expect

Not Authorized (can't mount USB flash drive as normal user)

2010-08-13 Thread Steven I Usdansky
LXDE spin alpha RC4 x86_64. Boot into runlevel 3 as normal user Run startx to start an LXDE session Plug in USB flash drive - file manager appears Click on flash drive's entry to mount Error dialog appears with msg: Not Authorized How to fix? -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraprojec

why, oh why (do gtk2 pkgs depend on gtk3 pkgs)?

2010-08-12 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Trying to eliminate gtk3 packages from my F14 alpha rc 3.1 LXDE spin, I see: gnome-bluetooth-libs-2.90.0-4.fc14.i686 has missing requires of libgdk-x11-3.0.so.0 gnome-bluetooth-libs-2.90.0-4.fc14.i686 has missing requires of libgtk-x11-3.0.so.0 gnome-themes-2.31.6-1.fc14.noarch has missing requi

F14 LXDE alpha rc3.1 Live USB

2010-08-12 Thread Steven I Usdansky
It boots. The browser works. Updates work. But... When X starts, pcmanfm --desktop is not autostarted; the background consists of text from the boot process, and dragging a window around on the screen leaves an ugly trail. Running pcmanfm --desktop for the first time brings a solid black desk

RC2 LXDE spin two polkit invocations

2010-08-09 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Installed lxde-x86_64-20100806.15.iso, and everything seems to work. However, upon starting X (from runlevel 3) I get the following error: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.RegisterAuthenticationAgent () on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority at name org.freedesktop.

Need updated desktop-backgrounds-compat

2010-08-04 Thread Steven I Usdansky
~$ rpm -e --test goddard-backgrounds-single error: Failed dependencies: goddard-backgrounds-single is needed by (installed) desktop-backgrounds-compat-9.0.0-14.noarch ~$ rpm -e --test goddard-backgrounds-single desktop-backgrounds-compat error: Failed dependencies: desktop-backgrounds-comp

Interesting dependencies

2010-06-29 Thread Steven I Usdansky
Tablesyum remove constantine-backgrounds looks interesting today: Removing: constantine-backgrounds Removing for dependencies: compiz-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf control-center deja-dup desktop-effects file-roller gdm gdm-plugin-fingerprint gdm-user-switch-applet gn