Description of problem: On the Fedora-15-Nightly-20110428.20-x86_64-Live-kde.iso, in the live session, I tried running system-config-language from the menu and it didn't work at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-language-1.3.5-7.fc15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the F15 KDE live image. (I noticed this with the 20110428.20 nightly.) 2. Try running System Settings / Language from the menu. Actual results: Nothing happens. Expected results: The UI comes up. Additional info: I tried running system-config-language in a terminal and got the following message: Starting graphical mode failed. Starting text mode instead. It then proceeded to putting up a TUI. That TUI is not visible when running system-config-language from the menu.
Nominating as a blocker under the "All applications listed under the Applications menu or category must start successfully" criterion. (Yes, this shows up under Applications in Kickoff.)
Hi Kevin. Is this another version of the NM dhcp timing issue? If you run xhost + ... does that allow s-c-language to start in graphical mode from a terminal?
"xhost +" doesn't change anything. Also note that other consolehelper-using system-config-* tools work, only system-config-language is broken.
There's a Python exception being thrown, which makes the GUI mode fail to load: File "/usr/share/system-config-language/language-gui.py", line 406, in stand_alone self.iconBox.pack_start(self.icon, false) AttributeError: childWindow instance has no attribute 'icon'
The problem is that the code assumes that /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/preferences-desktop-locale.png always exists, yet nothing is requiring gnome-icon-theme on the KDE spin (and since it's 9 MiB of already compressed PNGs, I'm not sure we want to drag it in).
The code: https://fedorahosted.org/system-config-language/browser/trunk/src/language_gui.py has these lines: 97 try: 98 p = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file("/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/preferences-desktop-locale.png") 99 except: 100 try: 101 p = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file("/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/apps/preferences-desktop-locale.png") 102 except: 103 pass This is trying to load the same file twice. If I change line 101 to: p = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file("/usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/apps/preferences-desktop-locale.png") it works fine.
The best solution, though, would be to use the icon-theme-aware icon loading functions instead of hardcoding the theme. That way, it would always find the Oxygen icon on the KDE spin.
I'm now building system-config-language-1.3.5-8.fc16 and system-config-language-1.3.5-8.fc15 with the minimal fix, to get the blocker addressed. I'll leave it to the maintainer to decide whether he thinks it's good enough or whether he wants to make the code cleaner (e.g. by using the icon loading functions and/or by not making the code throw an exception if the icon wasn't found; the weird thing is that the code tries hard not to throw, then throws anyway later on).
system-config-language-1.3.5-8.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-config-language-1.3.5-8.fc15
Discussed during the 2011-05-02 Fedora QA team meeting. Agreed that this impacts application basic functionality when running s-c-lang in KDE, and is therefore a valid release blocker.
system-config-language-1.3.5-8.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Thanks Kevin :). Actually a lot of people have previously worked on this application, hence sometimes it becomes difficult to main a good code. For the time being, if it solves the problem, I will stick with this. But later on, I will change it with some cleaner code. Thanks again to you and James.