Re: (October release) control-center / GOAD / linuxppc problem



I had similar problems when building gonme on my Sparc....
The Berkley DB libraries (which ORBit uses) seemed to be the problem.....
I believe I got the latest release or mabey it was an older one
and then had to fiddle a bit, when building it....

Simon Stapleton wrote:

Hi.

I've been using gnome quite happily for ages now - the version packaged
with linux/ppc 1999 (just past the 1.0 release, I think) has been
performing splendidly.  However (there had to be a 'however', didn't
there), I needed to move up to a later version in order to be able to
compile up some software I needed, and frankly, I wanted to be up with
the game again.

So.  I downloaded the RPMS for the October release (gnome-core 1.0.53 et
al) from the UK sunsite mirror of gnome.org. It all works pretty well,
but the control center is failing to work.  Nary a configuration screen
will grace my monitor.  Which means I've got the default 'sound on,
background enabled' setup, and I can't change it.  Feck.  Especially as
esd makes nasty graunching noises under ppc, and I like to have it turned
well & truly off.

'Hmm', thought I.  Mebbes I've missed something.  Nope.  All RPMs
grabbed, all installed.  So I grabbed the source for control-center and
compiled it, uninstalled the RPMed version, installed my new version,
tried that.  Same problem.

'Hmmmmmm'.  Recompile with debug, pull out gdb. Nothing's crashing at
least - it looks to be hanging somewhere.  I'm getting 'Unable to contact
control-center' messages from the capplets.

'Hmmmmmmmmm'. Gdb one of the capplets, it fails on trying to do something
corba-ish to the control center.  Something about GOAD.  (I'm at work at
the moment, so can't see the errors)  A similar error happens if I run up
a second gnomecc in gdb - it sees the first one, tries to activate it and
drops out at that point.  Same function being called.

Now I figger that the problem is to do with my gnorba setup, as nobody
else seems to be screaming about this.  But I know feck all about gnorba,
or corba, and can't afford to waste much more time trying to get this up
& running. So.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Simon

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