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Old 12-22-2007, 12:07 AM   #1
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Smile Package Updater Crashes and Other Problems - FC7 Dell Inspiron


I'm running Fedora 7 (2.6.23.8-34.fc7) on a Dell Inspiron 6000. This is my first time running strictly linux; it has been working great. I do however have a couple problems.

1) My package updater, software updater and bluetooth client crash instantly when I try to open them.

I ran a yum update in the terminal and that seemed to fix the problem. The next day the problem came back. I ran yum clean all and updated again because it worked last time but it didn't work. This only started happening recently and the only thing I did to change my computer is install my WiiMote as a mouse following the guide at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=535659
Any advice?

2) When I'm typing the cursor bounces around and I end up typing in the middle of another word on another line; randomly. I assume its a problem with my keyboard configuration or possibly my mouse. I don't want to mess up my keyboard so I haven't tried to fix it.

3) I can't get the media buttons on the front to work. I've tried a few different techniques that were posted on this site and others but no luck so far. Not really a big deal but it would be nice.

Nubmer one is most important to me right now; thanks for looking.
 
Old 12-22-2007, 12:41 AM   #2
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1. The package updater is "yum" - you don't seem to be having trouble with yum. Probably you are having trouble with pirut? This is known to be unstable in f7. Don't use it. If you must have a gui (it's nice) try yum extender (yum install yumex - I think).

2. Try disabling your touchpad.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad
... it's very common to brush this thing lightly while typing, causing the insertian point to jump. I have mine set to toggle on/off on a hotkey.

3. Multimedia keys - http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv...p/t-10680.html
I've had mixed success. I've found that they are often used by some proprietary software supplied by the vendor which runs only on windows. It is sometimes possible to get them assigned to something if they produce a keystroke that x keybindings can use.

OTOH: all the special keys on my hp nx5000 work out of the box! So it's very variable.

Have you seen:
www.mjmwired.net fedora setup?
 
Old 12-22-2007, 01:36 AM   #3
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Wow great response.
Yeah the updater gui is what crashes. Yum does indeed work fine. Can you explain why the bit torrent client (sorry I made a mistake in the previous post) crashes? The updater gui and bit torrent client started crashing at the same time. I really like the bit torrent client and it has never had this problem in the past, the updater gui has been unreliable though.

When I try to run bittorrent in the terminal this is what I get:

Code:
$ bittorrent
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/bittorrent", line 177, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cairo/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from _cairo import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cairo/_cairo.so: undefined symbol: cairo_clip_extents
I get the exact same thing when I try to run yumex:

Code:
$ yumex
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yumex/yumex.py", line 29, in <module>
    import gtk,gobject
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cairo/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from _cairo import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cairo/_cairo.so: undefined symbol: cairo_clip_extents
Based on this I assume it's got something to do with python. I updated python and cairo for the WiiMote.
What should I do to fix this problem?

On the brighter side your touch pad advice turned out very well and I'm working on the media buttons.

Thanks

Last edited by the_mulletator; 12-22-2007 at 05:24 AM.
 
Old 12-23-2007, 08:55 AM   #4
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I'd normally suggest you remove yumex, clean and purge. Then yum install yumex.
It looks like the updated python is not quite right for the yum stuff. You probably have to update other packages too. If you have the bandwidth, try a general update. If you need to add a package, that would be difficult to figure out.

http://www.wiili.org/Main_Page
 
Old 12-24-2007, 02:19 AM   #5
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I did what you said:

removed yumex
yum clean all
yum install yumex
yum update

yumex and bittorrent worked immediately after but later they failed.
I tried the same solution again and now it won't work and gave me the exact same messages as before.

I think it has something to do with this command:
Code:
# ldconfig /usr/local/lib/
Its supposed to update my libraries database for use with the WiiMote.
Is there a way to determine the package I need or the one that is causing a problem? I may have installed extra packages that I don't need

I installed yum-utils which allows me to search for package problems for example:

Code:
# package-cleanup --problems
Setting up yum
Reading local RPM database
Processing all local requires
Missing dependencies:
Package php requires php-common = 5.2.4-1.fc7
Package php-cli requires php-common = 5.2.4-1.fc7
Package pm-utils requires radeontool
Package pm-utils requires vbetool
Package libXp-devel requires libXp = 1.0.0-8
Package libXp-devel requires libXp.so.6
Package libtimidity requires timidity++
Package wildmidi requires timidity++
Package iptstate requires libnetfilter_conntrack.so.1
Let me know what you think. Thanks for your help so far. Merry Christmas.
 
Old 12-24-2007, 08:53 AM   #6
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Looks like you may have to do without the wii thingy... shame, can you imagine playing fps's with that thing?! Tell the maintainer about this.

Run yum with fix dependencies.
 
  


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