Description of problem: I've noticed the following error message on console 1 after running startx: rhn_applet.py 362: Deprecationwarning integer argument expected got float rhn-applet-2.1.7-1.1.src.rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.1.7-1.1 title Fedora Core (2.6.7-1.476) title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3) title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.1) title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435) title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.427) title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) How reproducible: It appears every time that I go into gdm. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot into X 2. 3. Actual results: I have several error messages besides rhn_applet. agpgart problems which I am monitoring this list for a solution, and I receive several bonobo error messages when I leave X and return to the command line. Expected results: I don't expect to see an error message unless I've done something wrong. Additional info: I've noticed an error reported by the rpm database: S.5....T c /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-applet I've downloaded the rpm and reinstalled it, rebuilt the rpm database, but the error persists. If I swap HDs and boot into RH9/XFree86 instead of FC2/Xorg I don't see this message -- I don't see anything but a command prompt in console 1. I don't know if this will help, but I'll mention it. The X configurator in FC2 is determined to set my ATI 8500/64MB graphics card as an 8500 LE which is wrong. If I change the value manually the system changes it right back. Any window in an Xwindow session that get overlayed is permanently obscured -- I have to minimize and restore the window to get the information back. Please let me know if there is anything that I left out. Supermicro P4STA 1.7GHz 768 MB memory 80 GB WD JB HD ATI 8500/64 MB Thank you. Dwaine Castle
Today, I noticed something that might be of help. I boot into runlevel 3 by setting id:3:initdefault in inittab, and then use startx to begin an X window gdm session. This afternoon I noticed that when I executed a runlevel command in an xterm window it reported N 3. I expected to see 3 5. I left the X session, and then started an X window session by using init 5 instead of startx. Now an xterm runlevel command returns 3 5 and my console 1 does not having any error messages in it. There is one difference and that is that the X session prompts me for a username and password. I thought that startx was supposed to change to runlevel 5, but maybe I am wrong.
Hi Dwaine, The problem you are experiencing is related to the RHN "alert" applet that shows up in your panel when you log in to inform you of updates. The warning you are seeing is most probably harmless, but nevertheless, should probably be fixed. startx doesn't bring the system into runlevel 5, but instead just starts X in the current runlevel. GDM is only started in runlevel 5, so by running startx in runlevel 3, you are bypassing GDM (which is what provides the window that prompts for username and password). I am reassigning this bug to the rhn-applet component.
Created attachment 102329 [details] patch that fixes this bug Attached please find patch which fixes this bug. Problem was wrong type parameter in gtk.timeout_add call (was float, should be integer). math.floor returns float number allways so used instead internal python function int(x). Removed 'import math' from beginning because math functions are not needed anymore. Seems to work now and no logs to console anymore.
*** Bug 128460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've installed FC3t1 & encountered this error message as well as a few more. I posted a message to the fedora-test-list and got what seems to be a response from Brian Smith in vol 5 issue 58 that seems to be a good explaination. It seems that prefdm is sending these messages to /dev/null and not to any log, so they must not be important. I suspect that they are there even when I execute init 5 to start the GUI. ------------------------------------------------------------- Dwaine, Looking at your output, it seems those error messages are just warnings, letting the developers know that some of the gtk/gnome systems are using depricated function calls that have likely been replaced by better ones. This often happens during development releases while the coders are busy building up to new libraries. Most of the calls have to do with GTK so I have to assume that FC3 is using a newer version of GTK+2. The warnings are nothing to worry about. Runlevel 5, by itself, is of no consequence to x11. It is, however, most distributions' runlevel-of-choice when running a graphical login manager, hence the /etc/X11/prefdm line at the end of inittab. Hope this helps you -brian
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
1) Those are warnings not errors, and thus not critical or security fixes. See Fedora Legacy warning above. 2) rhn_applet is removed from the latest Fedora Core. 3) No response from reporter to a request for information.