blogthis hangs, ubuntu edgy

[f.kon...@gmail.com]

hi
when i select a foto and click blog, it opens the blogger new/old site
and i choose new the window clears and than it hangs.

picasa build is 2.2.2820-5

any ideas pls?
regards
florian

[Michael]

This is a known issue for some users on some distros. We're looking
into it.

Michael

On Feb 15, 4:34 pm, "f.konne...@gmail.com" <f.konne...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[di Lampedusa]

> > when i select a foto and click blog, it opens the blogger new/old site
> > and i choose new the window clears and than it hangs.

This happens to me too with Fedora 5, but only since I updated to the
New Blogger.

It worked nicely BEFORE that, with the Blogger Beta. It may be related
to the distro, but there may be something also failing in the New
Blogger (which, I've heard, is still not W3C compliant, and maybe that
causes conflicts).

I think this is very annoying, I used Picasa mainly to blog pictures.

I'm surprised that I couldn't find more posts about this on the net.
Are we really so few users affected by this? I've been suffering it
since last year, and this is the first thread I find...

Cheers,

dL.

[Michael]

> This happens to me too with Fedora 5, but only since I updated to the
> New Blogger.

Sorry for forgetting to update this thread. The problem has been
found, and will be fixed in the next version. I've also posted a
workaround for the current release. Please see my instructions in this
other thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_frm/thread/581b455d81501559/97fe65f8f1ab8698?hl=en#97fe65f8f1ab8698

Michael

[di Lampedusa]

Thanks for the reply!

> Please see my instructions in this other thread:

> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/browse_fr...

I've applied them, but it still doesn't work. I keep getting the white
screen (named Picasa: BlogThis!) after choosing "New Blogger". The
program doesn't hang, it just shows that white screen where I would
expect the blog to appear. If I close it [x] I get an "Are you sure
you want to cancel?", and if I click Yes the window quits and Picasa
keeps running normaly.

By the way, in my case most of the copied directories (command,
system) are completely empty, while system32 only has one file in it
(drivers/pxhelp20.sys).

Cheers,

dL.

[Michael]

> By the way, in my case most of the copied directories (command,
> system) are completely empty, while system32 only has one file in it
> (drivers/pxhelp20.sys).

Yes, the directories should be mostly empty when you copy them, but
then the Picasa "wrapper" script should populate them the next time
you run Picasa. What version of Picasa are you using?

As a quick fix, you can also symlink some files in there like this:

cd ~/.picasa/drive_c/windows/system32
ln -s /opt/picasa/wine/lib/*.dll.so .

That's not the ideal, and I don't know for sure that it won't cause
other problems, but it should solve the BlogThis! hang.

Michael

[di L]

No way...

> ln -s /opt/picasa/wine/lib/*.dll.so .

That doesn't work (no .dll.so file therein), but this correction helps
(notice the extra 'wine' after 'lib'):

ln -s /opt/picasa/wine/lib/wine/*.dll.so .

Still this doesn't solve the BlogThis problem :-( It keeps white as
described above.

I'm using Picasa Version 2.2.2820-5 for Linux, the latest I found
when this problem first appeared in my laptop, about one month ago.
Maybe there's another one more recent now... I'll take a look.

Thanks!

j.

[di L]

Wait, it worked !

It is simply very slow, but if I wait for a while it works now...

Thanks!!!!

j.

[Michael]

> > ln -s /opt/picasa/wine/lib/*.dll.so .
>
> That doesn't work (no .dll.so file therein), but this correction helps
> (notice the extra 'wine' after 'lib'):
>
> ln -s /opt/picasa/wine/lib/wine/*.dll.so .

Sorry, that was my typo. Your path is what it should have been. Glad
you got it working.

Michael

[di L]

Well, BlogThis doesn't hang now, but still doesn't work perfectly.

1) My post is not published, just saved as draft (I'm sure I clicked
"publish"! Tested three times). I must edit the post in blogger to
really publish it.

2) More importantly, I do not know if Picasa is actually uploading the
images or not, but in any case the images in the post are linked to
the localhost and not to the blogspot server, therefore the images
can't be seen at all from any other computer:

<IMG SRC='http://localhost:43727/736e05d63dc050559d064957f669702a/
image10967.jpg?size=320' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' >

Picasa indeed says "preparing images for uploading" and then
"posting", but it doesn't work as expected but as explained above.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for being there... :-)

[Michael]

This appears to be a problem with the 2.2.x version of Picasa. The
next release (2.6.x) should work properly.

Michael

[di L]

A previous reply of mine seems to be lost... I repeat it here.

> This appears to be a problem with the 2.2.x version of Picasa. The
> next release (2.6.x) should work properly.

What I find strange is that my 2.2 version was working correctly till
a few months ago! Something external made it fail...

[Michael]

> > This appears to be a problem with the 2.2.x version of Picasa. The
> > next release (2.6.x) should work properly.
>
> What I find strange is that my 2.2 version was working correctly till
> a few months ago! Something external made it fail...

You mentioned that it started when you switched to the new Blogger. I
think that is the root of it. Picasa 2.2.x came out before the new
Blogger, and it looks like some backward incompatibilities were
introduced. Picasa 2.6.x is aware of and tested with the new Blogger
and should work just fine.

Michael