Gnome 2.8 - MDK 10.1 CE issues

[a13x]

Well, the first thing that I've noticed is that some new services/daemons are started on boot. Two of these are the HAL daemon and devfsd. What are they for ? Can I disable them ?

 

I notice that in Gnome 2.8 wrong applications are assigned to open wrong files. For example Abiword opens all documents, except the OO specific ones. This is annoying because when I open a doc w/o extension I get the following error and Abi closes.

 

The Application "AbiWord" has quit unexpectedly. 

You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it.  Or you can restart the application right now.

 

The Preferred applications entry from GNOME CC doesn't work. I set gedit to be my default text editor and when I click close and open PA again, Abiword is still selected.

 

Another annoying 'feature' of Gnome 2.8 is that it gives those stupid errors in some folders like this one:

 

The Audio view encountered an error while starting up. 
The location cannot be displayed with this viewer.

 

This one occurred in the Documents and Settings/Alex folder, probably because of the ntuser.ini file that is there which Gnome considers to be an audio file. LOL.

 

The same thing happens with .dat files which Gnome considers to be video files.

Edited November 12, 2004 by a13x

[bvc]

if you upgraded from an earlier version of ML, ML-10.1 is udev and not devfs. Turn off devfs. I think HAL has something to do with hotplugging usb or other devices? What does it say it is in mcc>System>Services?

 

An upgrade to gnome2.8 does wackout the mimes. Also remember you are using a hack version of gnome2.8. Rt-click a file>Properties>Opens With tab should fix them.

 

Don't know about the errors. I don't browse folders with ini and dat files.

[a13x]

Rt-click a file>Properties>Opens With tab should fix them.

 

That's what I'm using but this is not a solution. It's a workaround. ;)

 

Don't know about the errors. I don't browse folders with ini and dat files.

 

LOL. Sometimes you have to go to these hostile places and do what you have to do

 

I think HAL has something to do with hotplugging usb or other devices? What does it say it is in mcc>System>Services

 

"This is a daemon for collecting and maintaining information about hardware from several sources."

[bvc]

workaround? It's code, intentionally put there to use and work ;)

 

what does urpmf say about HAL?

Google?

there's better info than that somewhere.

[a13x]

HAL is a hardware abstraction layer and aims to provide a live list of

devices present in the system at any point in time. HAL tries to

understand both physical devices (such as PCI, USB) and the device

classes (such as input, net and block) physical devices have, and it

allows merging of information from so called device info files specific

to a device.

 

HAL provides a network API through D-BUS for querying devices and

notifying when things change. Finally, HAL provides some monitoring (in

an unintrusive way) of devices, presently ethernet link detection and

volume mounts are monitored.

 

This, and more, is all described in the HAL specification

 

workaround? It's code, intentionally put there to use and work wink.gif

 

Yes but it still doesn't fix the problem. Normally I should be able to click a file and open it with the proper application.

 

I'm thinking about upgrading to Gnome 2.9. What do you think ?

[bvc]

you missed it

 

you upgraded

that's why

 

a default install of a distro with gnome-2.8 doesn't have the probs you are having. Could also be the hacked mdk rpms. Gnome is not the prob.

[bvc]

:o

he does have 2.9 up now

/bvc wonders if he should break his working gnome :unsure:

[a13x]

I used the rpms from the link you posted.

 

In this case I'll go for Thac's Gnome 2.9 rpms

[a13x]

Ok, now this is the weirdest urpmi issue I've ever seen.

 

[root@Alex root]# urpmi libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 
Some package requested cannot be installed: 
libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (trying to promote libxorg-x11) 
libxorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to missing libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586) 
xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to unsatisfied /usr/X11R6/bin/xset[*]) 
xorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to missing libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586) 
xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to unsatisfied /usr/X11R6/bin/xset[*]) 
xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to missing libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586) 
xorg-x11-server-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to missing libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586) 
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586 (due to missing libxorg-x11-6.8.1-7.mdk10.1.thac.i586) 
Continue? (Y/n) n 
[root@Alex root]#

 

"trying to promote libxorg-x11" - WTF ? :blink:

unsatisfied /usr/X11R6/bin/xset[*] - Huh ? :wacko: