Mayanna / Gimmie doesn't work on Fedora > 7
Lyle Lasheimok
since Fedora 8 Gimmie / Mayanna doesn't work in Fedora any more, it crashes at almost any button click.
Here's one of the bug reports: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384221
It may look like a Fedora Python bug, as this particular error happens only in Fedora, and only since Fedora 8, but the Python maintainers insist that the bug is not on their side.
This bug report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453582
describes the same error message in another program, where it was fixed.
Maybe that gives a hint on how to fix it?
(It may sound silly, but I still use the Gimmie dock, even with most of the functionality missing, as it's the best task switcher I've ever used. Before Gimmie I used 6 virtual desktops to organize all the open windows, but with Gimmie I hardly ever need a second desktop. The panel applet and awn plugin are great, but they're lacking the task switcher.)
Mayanna (svn trunk 60) crashes in the same way as Gimmie.
Thanx for all the great work! :)
Gratefully,
Lasheimok
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Alex Gabriel
- the error has to be in C code (which gimmie/mayanna doesn't have
apart from third party libs)
- the error seems to appear (or appeared in the past) in a great
number of applications (quodlibet, wxpython, elisa (gstreamer-python
is the cause here) , sugar, telepathy-gabble, Zope 2 (this was fixed),
yum,....)
I cannot tell you right now in which of the libs we use the error
appears.
The one thing I can do, is find out which third party libs we are
using ( I spend my time with the new mayanna code these days, so I'm
not on time with mayanna-legacy or gimmie)
And you can find out which versions of the libs you are using. Perhaps
a comparison between there version numbers between people experiencing
the problem and people that don't will show wich library is to blame.
cheers, Alex
On 2 Jul., 11:54, Lyle Lasheimok <lyle.lashei...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since Fedora 8 Gimmie / Mayanna doesn't work in Fedora any more, it crashes at almost any button click.
> Here's one of the bug reports:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=384221
>
> It may look like a Fedora Python bug, as this particular error happens only in Fedora, and only since Fedora 8, but the Python maintainers insist that the bug is not on their side.
>
Lyle Lasheimok
thank you for your reply! :)
I'm happy to help debugging wherever I can.
Gratefully,
Lasheimok
----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Gabriel <alexande...@tuhh.de>
To: MAYANNA <may...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 4:15:43 PM
Subject: [mayanna] Re: Mayanna / Gimmie doesn't work on Fedora > 7
I looked into the problem and got the following information:
- the error has to be in C code (which gimmie/mayanna doesn't have
apart from third party libs)
- the error seems to appear (or appeared in the past) in a great
number of applications (quodlibet, wxpython, elisa (gstreamer-python
is the cause here) , sugar, telepathy-gabble, Zope 2 (this was fixed),
yum,....)
I cannot tell you right now in which of the libs we use the error
appears.
The one thing I can do, is find out which third party libs we are
using ( I spend my time with the new mayanna code these days, so I'm
not on time with mayanna-legacy or gimmie)
And you can find out which versions of the libs you are using. Perhaps
a comparison between there version numbers between people experiencing
the problem and people that don't will show wich library is to blame.
cheers, Alex
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