Description of problem: I couldn't find a component section for this, so I picked what I considered a similar component. The problem is simply that gDesklets bails when starting up. I can never actually get gDesklets to start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): latest How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose gDesklets from program --> accessories. 2. 3. Actual results: gDesklets quits when starting the program. Expected results: That it would work? Additional info: G5 single (PowerMac 9.1)
The gdesklets maintainer needs to request a bugzilla entry for this package and adjust the component/distribution when this is done. I'll assign it manually to him for now.
Actually gdesklets is in Fedora Extras products list. Could you reproduce the bug with the terminal (Application --> Accessories --> Terminal) then type gdeskkets --debug?
$ gdesklets --debug "You're running gDesklets for the first time. gDesklets will start a requirements check now... Checking requirements: - sys ... found - xml.parsers.expat ... found - xml.sax ... found - gtk ... found - ORBit ... found Version check failed. ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required. Please make sure that the required software is installed. Also try to avoid having multiple versions of a library/binding on your system. gDesklets won't work if you don't have all necessary dependencies installed on your system. THE STARTUP WILL BE CANCELLED NOW!" As far as I know, nothing I have installed has changed the original pyorbit that came with FC 5. How do I install this (sudo yum install pyorbit)?
Strange that ppc64 required pyorbit 2.0.1 where the spec file actually mentionned >= 2.0.1 which worked fine on other architecture. Did you use the ppc32 version to verify if the issue get solved? I will release an update to see if the problem goes away.
I haven't done anything yet. I'll wait for the update.
Further details about gDesklets. I updated the package which will be available sooner. I found a workaround that consists to start gDesklets from the terminal once, exit and restart it from the menu. Hope if help. Sorry for the delay.
Gdesklets works fine on the system. Until the problem emerged once again, this bug report is now closed.
Please don't close a bug as WORKSFORME when you released an update. Use CLOSED/NEXTRELEASE or CLOSED/ERRATA I've had a look at your CVS "fix" and don't understand it. In comment 3, Brian report debug output about a failed version check. You've not done anything about that version check. Instead, you've only replaced a minimum version of a build requirement in the spec file. The failure is still reproducible here: $ rpm -q gdesklets gdesklets-0.35.3-8.fc5 $ rm -rf $HOME/.gdesklets $ gdesklets --debug
This bug affects i386 architecture as well. I just installed gdesklets and I ran into the very same problem as Brian reported ("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required."). The output of "gdesklets --debug" is the same as in comment #3. My system is fully updated as of Jun 5, 2006.
(In reply to comment #9) > This bug affects i386 architecture as well. > I just installed gdesklets and I ran into the very same problem as Brian > reported ("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required."). The > output of "gdesklets --debug" is the same as in comment #3. > > My system is fully updated as of Jun 5, 2006. > Current workaround posted from an user: This works fine on FC5, maybe it'll help on other distros: Open the file /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets in a text editor (I used vi) and find the two lines where the dependency is checked: ( ("ORBit",), lambda m : m.__version__ == (2, 0, 1), _("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version == 2.0.1 are required.") then edit the entries to read: ( ("ORBit",), lambda m : m.__version__ >= (2, 0, 1), _("ORBit python bindings (pyorbit) version >= 2.0.1 are required.") I will investigate further about this issue.
It has been a while I checked that bug report. I finally look around to find out it is an upstream bug i.e. it is a problem related to gdesklets itself. While the workaround is available online, I will prepare an updated version with a patch. Sorry for the very long delay of response.
The package is now updated with added patch against pyorbit requirement found on upstream package. Check out the package on Extras repository and let me know if the problem occurs on PPC.