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gregy_
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 Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject: Gnome 2.6 problems - anyone else has those? |
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Hi.
I've just upgraded to Gnome 2.6 and I wonder if anybody else here has the same problems I've got:
1. gstreamer 0.8 - there seems to be some problem with gstreamer - I don't have any volume controls / gstreamer-properties don't work either. Emerging gst-plugins-ffmpeg doesn't pass compilation phase (some MMX asm problems)...
2. CDROM / Floppy mount points icons - Gnome 2.4 correctly recognized my supermount CDROM/Floppy mount points. New gnome doesn't recognize them, showing both locations with "harddrive" icon (instead of a "cdrom"/"floppy" icon)
3. ggv - the application seems to take tooooo loooong to startup due to DNS queries. If my DNS server is disabled (dnsmasq) - the application starts up in a seconds - otherwise it takes tens of seconds...
4. gpdf + nautilus - nautilus hangs when pressing "back" button after viewing a .pdf file.
5. gswitchit - keyboard layout applet seems to be missing the flag icons, a dummy icon is displayed instead of any flag icon... |
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deathdruid
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 problems - anyone else has those? |
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| gregy_ wrote: | Hi.
1. gstreamer 0.8 - there seems to be some problem with gstreamer - I don't have any volume controls / gstreamer-properties don't work either. Emerging gst-plugins-ffmpeg doesn't pass compilation phase (some MMX asm problems)... |
emerge gst-plugins-oss.
| Quote: | | 2. CDROM / Floppy mount points icons - Gnome 2.4 correctly recognized my supermount CDROM/Floppy mount points. New gnome doesn't recognize them, showing both locations with "harddrive" icon (instead of a "cdrom"/"floppy" icon) |
Mine don't even show up in the desktop right click menu. They do in "My Computer though.
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3. ggv - the application seems to take tooooo loooong to startup due to DNS queries. If my DNS server is disabled (dnsmasq) - the application starts up in a seconds - otherwise it takes tens of seconds... |
Is your /etc/hosts set up correctly? What host is it trying to resolve?
About the others, I have no clue. |
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gregy_
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 problems - anyone else has those? |
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| deathdruid wrote: | | gregy_ wrote: | Hi.
1. gstreamer 0.8 - there seems to be some problem with gstreamer - I don't have any volume controls / gstreamer-properties don't work either. Emerging gst-plugins-ffmpeg doesn't pass compilation phase (some MMX asm problems)... |
emerge gst-plugins-oss. |
I have those... Anyway how could I get some more status output out of it?
| Quote: | | Quote: | | 2. CDROM / Floppy mount points icons - Gnome 2.4 correctly recognized my supermount CDROM/Floppy mount points. New gnome doesn't recognize them, showing both locations with "harddrive" icon (instead of a "cdrom"/"floppy" icon) |
Mine don't even show up in the desktop right click menu. They do in "My Computer though. |
I have CDROM and Floppy icons on the desktop, and those had appropriate icons in Gnome2.4 - now I had to assign them custom icons...
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3. ggv - the application seems to take tooooo loooong to startup due to DNS queries. If my DNS server is disabled (dnsmasq) - the application starts up in a seconds - otherwise it takes tens of seconds... |
Is your /etc/hosts set up correctly? What host is it trying to resolve?
About the others, I have no clue. |
I couldn't understand what hosts it is trying to resolve.
Here is strace output:
connect(25, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 2 = 0
send(25, "*\1\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\6%eb%ec\3doc\0\0\1\0\1", 28, 0) = 28
gettimeofday({1081021697, 328438}, NULL) = 0
poll(
dnsmasq log shows lots of forward messages but contrary to normal queries, it doesn't show the actual url that is being queried...
those messages are printed:
"dnsmasq: forwarded query to <my-isp-ip>"
Thanks,
Greg. |
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deathdruid
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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What is in your /etc/hosts file?
Here is mine:
| Code: | | 127.0.0.1 host.domain.com host localhost |
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gregy_
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Mine /etc/resolv.conf is:
domain my.home
nameserver 127.0.0.1
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.0.10 homepc.my.home homepc
Now that I looked at dnsmasq sources it seems to me that "ggv" attempts to query NULL server - which seems to be accepted by dnsmasq - it uses a "magic" word "query" to perform the actual query... Seems really strange to me... |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| ggv is doing the same thing here. Very strange. |
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gregy_
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Removing ~/.recently-used seems to resolve ggv startup performance.
Seems like a bug though... Maybe some wrong xml parsing ? Why should it try to access ~/.recently-used anyway?
Thanks,
Gregory. |
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Epyon
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| cool. worked for me |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:27 am Post subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 problems - anyone else has those? |
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| deathdruid wrote: | | gregy_ wrote: | Hi.
1. gstreamer 0.8 - there seems to be some problem with gstreamer - I don't have any volume controls / gstreamer-properties don't work either. Emerging gst-plugins-ffmpeg doesn't pass compilation phase (some MMX asm problems)... |
emerge gst-plugins-oss. |
I also had this problem and solved it by emerging gst-plugins-oss. But maybe gregy also needs gst-plugins-alsa?
I have another problem with the volume controls: After startup the volume-control-applet always wants to change the master-volume. And I always set it to leave master at 100% and change the pcm-settings. How can I make this permanent? Or is this just another bug/feature?
| deathdruid wrote: | | Mine don't even show up in the desktop right click menu. They do in "My Computer though. |
A really stupid change. The old way was much faster if you often have to mount/umount something. |
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smn
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 problems - anyone else has those? |
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| deathdruid wrote: | | gregy_ wrote: | Hi.
1. gstreamer 0.8 - there seems to be some problem with gstreamer - I don't have any volume controls / gstreamer-properties don't work either. Emerging gst-plugins-ffmpeg doesn't pass compilation phase (some MMX asm problems)... |
emerge gst-plugins-oss. |
i did that, and it even works (tho i had to remove gst0.6 first and reemerge gst0.8 ). now the volume slider works, but i can only set it to max, if i set it to something between 0 and max it automatically moves toward 0. this is kinda annoying, i'd really like to use the volume control :\
anyone else got that behavior?
edit: i got that problem with volume-control changing to master at restart too  |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| gregy_ wrote: | Removing ~/.recently-used seems to resolve ggv startup performance.
Seems like a bug though... Maybe some wrong xml parsing ? Why should it try to access ~/.recently-used anyway?
Thanks,
Gregory. |
It's used by GTK to display the "Recent files" menu in alot of applications, even the gnome panel. (see the actions menu)
I'm not sure, but I think it's not actually part of GTK yet, still in libegg.
Alot of gstreamer plugins are actually failing here: sink plugins oss, alsa and xvideo and the source plugin gnomevfs. I just avoid merging them during an update world. Most of the time I use my seperately installed gnome cvs anyways. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: Gnome 2.6 problems - anyone else has those? |
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| smn wrote: | now the volume slider works, but i can only set it to max, if i set it to something between 0 and max it automatically moves toward 0. this is kinda annoying, i'd really like to use the volume control :\
anyone else got that behavior?
edit: i got that problem with volume-control changing to master at restart too |
I have the same issue. I've been playing around with setting the gstreamer settings to various combinations of alsa/oss/esd-src and alsa/oss/esd-sink, but have not had much luck so far.
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| Quote: | Emerging gst-plugins-ffmpeg doesn't pass compilation phase (some MMX asm problems)...
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I had the same problem. Lower your C flags, and should work after that. For me, it worked with:
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
Using my default CFLAGS:
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4"
resulted in the same error as you got.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| gregy_ wrote: | Removing ~/.recently-used seems to resolve ggv startup performance.
Seems like a bug though... Maybe some wrong xml parsing ? Why should it try to access ~/.recently-used anyway?
Thanks,
Gregory. |
I had the same problem !!! Removing ~/.recently-used solved the problem... Strange 
Has anyone filled up a bug report ? |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:16 am Post subject: |
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I'm havig the same problem in gpdf. If I open a pdf in the nautilus view, and I close, nautilus will crash. Pressing back also sometimes crash gpdf. Is this a gnome or gentoo bug?
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GNOME 2.6 has too much bugs for a stable release:
6. Session manager seems broken: If I start GNOME the second time (and later) the splash screen stops when loading previous settings. I can click it away but then I cannot log out any more. It only works if I delete the session file, disable "store session on logout" and restart GNOME.
7. If I want to assign a keyboard multimedia button to a function, it says, that this key "0xe6" already is assigned to another function. But the mentioned function (Help Browser) doesn't have a key associated it. So I try to associate the Help Browser with "0xed" and I got a message which said "Log Out" has this key, but that's wrong. If I try to set Log Out it claims with "Help Browser" again, althought the keycodes are different.
8. The mixer applet did only work on a Gentoo box with Linux-2.4.20 and OSS, but not on on another Gentoo box with Linux-2.6.4 and ALSA. It complains about /dev/sound/mixer not being found. And he was right: the file isn't there. But why does the XFce mixer applet work on the same box?
9. I entered a user defined eMail reader "MozillaThunderbird" but the setting "user defined" wasn't enabled anymore when I restarted the configurator for favorite programs.
All these bugs appeared in the first hour I tried GNOME. |
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| Pythagoras1 wrote: | | 7. If I want to assign a keyboard multimedia button to a function, it says, that this key "0xe6" already is assigned to another function. But the mentioned function (Help Browser) doesn't have a key associated it. So I try to associate the Help Browser with "0xed" and I got a message which said "Log Out" has this key, but that's wrong. If I try to set Log Out it claims with "Help Browser" again, althought the keycodes are different. |
Just sets a correct keyboard layout. If yours isn't listed, try a different layout which seems to correspond to your keyboard !!! |
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yup, that was the solution for 7.
Memorex MX2750 seemed to match best to my keyboard, which isn't labeled at all. It took me a while to try all these layouts and it seems that there are still problems (audio-skip-next button is only recognized every second time).
One thing is confusing: why do I still need to select a keyboard layout if different keycodes are recognized. Each key had it's own number but GNOME ignored them.  |
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problems i'm having seem to be a bit more fundamental.
after creating folders in GNOME, i can't delete them. i get a "cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately" which also fails. weirdness.
FTP and Samba shares don't work either, as I get a "the action associated with 'FOLDER NAME' is invalid" message. also strange.
oh, and i can't adjust my clock - there is no "adjust time" option on right click.
but all in all, i'm pretty pleased. if this was my production box i'd be pissed, but overall i'm liking it. |
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FTP and Samba shares don't work either, as I get a "the action associated with 'FOLDER NAME' is invalid" message. also strange.
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Hmmm, works for me. If you upgraded from 2.4, maybe your old settings are confusing nautilus?
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oh, and i can't adjust my clock - there is no "adjust time" option on right click.
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This is not a regression, is it? The adjust time applet is present on redhat/fedora and is part of gnome-system-tools which does not support gentoo yet. |
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| Quote: | | oh, and i can't adjust my clock - there is no "adjust time" option on right click |
This drives me NUTS.
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| Quote: | | Hmmm, works for me. If you upgraded from 2.4, maybe your old settings are confusing nautilus? |
could be, but i didn't have too many setting in the first place. i've read that some other folks had issues with SAMBA shares tho so i emerged gnome-vfs to see if that would solve the problem. unfortunately, i can't check b/c either that or a different change seems to have broken nautilus.
| Quote: | | This is not a regression, is it? The adjust time applet is present on redhat/fedora and is part of gnome-system-tools which does not support gentoo yet. |
definitely not a regression. clean gentoo install, so nothing else present. i wasn't aware tho that the adjust time option wasn't supported in gentoo - i was just going by gnome help.
i've reset my rc.conf file which was set to UTC which is likely part of the problem, and i'll make sure the BIOS clock is set right. would sure like an easier way to do it tho. i'm emerging NTP as we speak so maybe that'll help a bit.
thanks for the feedback tho, def helpful. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:16 am Post subject: |
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i just figured out how to fix the volume-bug:
just compile gnome-applets without gstreamer support. i am running 2.6.5 gentoo dev sources with alsa 1.0.4 (maybe thats needed as well, who knows..). for me both, the not-storing-channel-bug and the auto-move-towards-zero bug are fixed now  |
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