On my new desktop (just package version upgrades, sticking with gcc-4.3 until I know all of this #!?* works) I've got a strange problem.
Background: when I saw that gconf now demands PAM I was double-plus unimpressed - for me, KISS is mandatory. Found some gentoo patches to build gconf without PAM, but I'm aware they might be the cause of the problem I'm seeing. Among other things, upgraded to gnumeric-1.8.4 (previously, I was on 1.8.3 and I've got a shed-load of gnumeric spreadsheets). When I initially tested it, noticed that I didn't have a print option in the menu (I did have 'Print Area', but it was greyed-out). Not good. Came back to it later (after a reboot), discovered printing *was* available. Then I discovered that I couldn't uipdate my existing spreadsheets. Build 1.8.3 in /opt, to see if it was specifically a 1.8.4 problem, but that was the same. Ran strace, got an enormous file telling me nothing useful. Today I came back to this. First, I tried running under gdb - the problem still showed, but I had no idea where to try putting a breakpoint, so it wasn't particularly useful. By this time, I'd deleted the trace. Gave strace another go, just in case I'd missed something - gnumeric worked without problems (specifically, I could put new content into a cell - previously, it just stayed in the "editing line", even if I clicked on the tick icon). Confirmed this, closed the file. Repeated, still ok. At this point, I looked around /etc/gnome (I don't go with /etc/gnome-x.y.z, my installs don't last long enough to upgrade gnome versions) and my dotfiles. The only thing I could see that had been updated was ~/.gconf/apps/gnumeric (my notes say it was ~/.gconfd, but that is now empty so i think they are wrong). Powered down. Unfortunately, now that I've rebooted I'm back to the "cannot update a cell in an existing spreadsheet" problem. Apart from suggesting some stronger spells with which to curse the inventors of gconf [ ;-) ] does anyone have any suggestions ? Like I say, my original notes said the changed file which might have made things work was in ~/.gconfd, although it probably came from epiphany, not gnumeric. But looking around, there is no gconfd.. I've also tried invoking dbus-launch, but it makes no difference. Summary: I've dropped kde4 from my desktop, now I start to think I'm going to have to drop gnome and keep everything in plain text files. Help!! ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
