Bug 448057
Summary: | xfce-setting-show and some of its applets do nothing | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Rob S. <rob.smeets> |
Component: | xfce-mcs-plugins | Assignee: | Kevin Fenzi <kevin> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 9 | CC: | christoph.wickert, kai |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | 4.4.3-1.fc9 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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Last Closed: | 2009-05-02 16:24:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Rob S.
2008-05-23 08:34:39 UTC
I uninstalled/reinstalled xfce-mcs-manager and about half of XFCE, but I still can't use the control panel. I also tried to start it as root, but no dice. Sounds like you might be getting hit by this bug: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/F9Common#head-4d00a901aba5a72b9f86a62147d1719af5717c66 So, try doing a 'yum groupinstall XFCE' and see if it pulls in some more packages that were not installed? Then see if it works? I tried that, didn't work. The full XFCE desktop is there, and even the binaries for xfce-setting-show (and probably all the other related progs) are in place, they just don't work. The worst thing about this is, that I badly need to change the screen size because I have to do a lot of vertical scrolling (it looks like Virtualbox is recognised as having a 1600x1200 screen or something like that). Is there a way to 'group uninstall'? I may have missed something. There is a 'groupuninstall', but I don't think that will help... How are you logging in? Is the xfce-mcs-manager process running? 'ps -axuww | grep xfce-mcs-manager' Does 'xfce-setting-show display' get you the display widget? - logging in: some graphical login screen (I assume the same one as in the Gnome install) - rob 2054 0.0 0.8 50672 4368 ? Ss 15:04 0:00 xfce-mcs-manager (so yes, it appears to be running. But what's with the question mark?) - no, xfce-setting-show display doesn't get me the display widget, and I tried some of the other widgets that are part of the same package and they don't work either. (calendar settings & desktop settings don't work either) Now this is odd... My problem is solved, but I don't understand how it may have happened. I basically edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf manually (just added Modes "1024x768" to Screen0) and rebooted. I was happy to see that my changes had been succesful, and explored the rest of the system for a little while, until I accidentally (without expecting anything) hit the 'Settings Manager' menu entry. Lo and behold, the control panel (or Settings Manager, whatever) popped up! Could it be that it's secretly dependent on a Mode being set in xorg.conf? Wow... that is odd. So everything is working for you now? When you had the higher resolution, was virtualbox showing it all, but having you scroll a viewable area around in it? Or was it not showing everything? Perhaps xfce-setting-show was being placed into an area of the screen you were not looking? In any case, I guess we can go ahead and close this now? Kevin, I'm positive that nothing happened at all when I called xfce-setting-show. I was scrolling around the screen all the time. (by the way, Virtualbox presented the full screen with a vertical and horizontal scrollbar) I think this is worth looking into; even if it might be an XFCE bug (or feature), it should be straightened out whether or not the mcs manager depends on display modes to succesfully run. I've had odd things happen in Xubuntu as well when I opened the Display applet (though it only screwed up my font rendering until next reboot). If we close this bug now w/out sending it upstream with some more info, this might never get fixed, right? If there's something else you'd like me to try (or if you want a DVD with my virtual machine), feel free to ask. Agreed. I would be happy to file a bug for you upstream, but I can't duplicate it, so I might not be able to provide full info for them. Would you be willing to file a bug upstream and assist them in tracking it down? (bugzilla.xfce.org under Xfce and xfce-mcs-manager package) Can do. But let's keep this one open, okay? I'd be happy to leave this open if you want, but not sure how much good it will do. I have added myself to CC on the upstream bug, so I should know when it's fixed upstream and we can update the Fedora packages at that time. Up to you. Well, I don't know if we can re-open it if XFCE were to identify it as a bug related to Fedora's implementation... If you prefer to, you can close the bug, but it hasn't really been solved, has it... No big deal, I can leave it open... but there may not be much action until upstream has had a chance to track it down. If they come up with a patch or the like, I can surely update the fedora package when they do. BTW, thanks for reporting this bug... (In reply to comment #6) > Now this is odd... > .. > > Could it be that it's secretly dependent on a Mode being set in xorg.conf? I don't think so, but maybe there is a bug in the display mcs plugin that breaks the plugin init when modes are not set, the plugin then prevents mcs-manager from starting up properly. But just to make sure: Did you installed a screensaver in the meantime and we are seeing a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448431 ? Quite sure. It wouldn't have made sense for me to install a screensaver in virtualbox... xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc9,gtk-xfce-engine-2.4.3-1.fc9,xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc9,orage-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfwm4-themes-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfce4-mixer-4.4.3-3.fc9,Thunar-0.9.3-1.fc9,Terminal-0.2.8.3-1.fc9,xfce4-session-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfce-utils-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfwm4-4.4.3-2.fc9,xfce4-panel-4.4.3-1.fc9,exo-0.3.4-3.fc9,xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.3-1.fc9.1,xfce4-appfinder-4.4.3-1.fc9,mousepad-0.2.14-1.fc9,libxfce4mcs-4.4.3-1.fc9,libxfcegui4-4.4.3-1.fc9,libxfce4util-4.4.3-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc9,gtk-xfce-engine-2.4.3-1.fc9,xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc9,orage-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfwm4-themes-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfce4-mixer-4.4.3-3.fc9,Thunar-0.9.3-1.fc9,Terminal-0.2.8.3-1.fc9,xfce4-session-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfce-utils-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfwm4-4.4.3-2.fc9,xfce4-panel-4.4.3-1.fc9,exo-0.3.4-3.fc9,xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.3-1.fc9,xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.3-1.fc9.1,xfce4-appfinder-4.4.3-1.fc9,mousepad-0.2.14-1.fc9,libxfce4mcs-4.4.3-1.fc9,libxfcegui4-4.4.3-1.fc9,libxfce4util-4.4.3-1.fc9 xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc9, gtk-xfce-engine-2.4.3-1.fc9, xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc9, orage-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfwm4-themes-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfce4-mixer-4.4.3-3.fc9, Thunar-0.9.3-1.fc9, Terminal-0.2.8.3-1.fc9, xfce4-session-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfce-utils-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfwm4-4.4.3-2.fc9, xfce4-panel-4.4.3-1.fc9, exo-0.3.4-3.fc9, xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.3-1.fc9.1, xfce4-appfinder-4.4.3-1.fc9, mousepad-0.2.14-1.fc9, libxfce4mcs-4.4.3-1.fc9, libxfcegui4-4.4.3-1.fc9, libxfce4util-4.4.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update xfdesktop gtk-xfce-engine xfce4-icon-theme orage xfwm4-themes xfce4-mixer Thunar Terminal xfce4-session xfce-utils xfwm4 xfce4-panel exo xfce-mcs-plugins xfce-mcs-manager xfce4-appfinder mousepad libxfce4mcs libxfcegui4 libxfce4util'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-3521 xfdesktop-4.4.3-1.fc9, gtk-xfce-engine-2.4.3-1.fc9, xfce4-icon-theme-4.4.3-1.fc9, orage-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfwm4-themes-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfce4-mixer-4.4.3-3.fc9, Thunar-0.9.3-1.fc9, Terminal-0.2.8.3-1.fc9, xfce4-session-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfce-utils-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfwm4-4.4.3-2.fc9, xfce4-panel-4.4.3-1.fc9, exo-0.3.4-3.fc9, xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.3-1.fc9, xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.3-1.fc9.1, xfce4-appfinder-4.4.3-1.fc9, mousepad-0.2.14-1.fc9, libxfce4mcs-4.4.3-1.fc9, libxfcegui4-4.4.3-1.fc9, libxfce4util-4.4.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |