SOHO RC1 bug reports and observations

[toothandnail]

I've just discovered that while Digikam starts fine and appears to work without problems, it shows no images of any sort at all. Earlier I had only 'tested' it by starting it.....

those trying digikam would you please upgradepkg or installpkg these updates see if it works now:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/test/digikam/digikam-1.1.0-i586-1vl60.txz
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/test/digikam/kipi-plugins-1.2.0-i586-1vl60.txz
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/test/digikam/lensfun-0.2.5-i586-1vl60.txz
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/test/digikam/liblqr-1-0.4.1-i586-1vl60.txz

Then let me know if digikam works as expected...........
Thanks for testing.............

Sorry, I'm getting 404s on all those URLs?

Paul.

[Joe1962]

Strange... I have gambas and gambas.runtime installed (2.16) and gslapt complained bitterly about unmet dependencies when I selected vcpufreq.

Yes, that is a mistake in slack-deps. It was fixed once, but that introduced another error. Needs an edit and repackage, sorry. Anyway, just tell it to ignore dependencies, or download and install manually with installpkg for now.

[Dweeberkitty]

The whole OpenOffice thing still doesn't fly for me. Every time I click on an equation in a document I get "General Error."

Dweb.........
well seems upstream problems in go-oo. Give me a link to a good openoffice that works for you and we will include it. johnb spent a lot of time on this oo build so please help us out with a working pkg.

Thanks Vec

Theoretically what version of Slackware is this new VL supposed to be compatible with?
The OpenOffice package I'm using right now is from the Beta3 discs. But that is an older version of OOo. I will try to find a package that works but the ones I've downloaded from the web for slackware 13 don't run.

[|nic|]

First tried to install it on my samsung n110 netbook, graphic install went well until the "add administrator password". My screen is to little and didn't display the fields, so I couldn't enter a password.
I'm also getting an error when trying the text install.

Installed it on another machine and everything is running well now.
Soho is looking good ! great work !

greetz

nic

[vector]

Sorry, I'm getting 404s on all those URLs?

Paul.[/quote

oops forgot to trigger osuosl. Try it now you should get thru.

vec

[soren]

Hi,

I just installed VL6 SOHO RC1 on my laptop. Overall it went great, but I have a single complaint. It may not even be a bug that is related to the distro, but I though I would mention it here anyway.

My wireless network doesn't work. It works on Ubuntu 9.10 on the same machine, and also on the VL6 standard I had installed until 25 minutes ago.

I am using wicd. It finds the networks correctly, and it also seems to auth with the router. The text on the bottom says "Obtaining IP-address" for a long time, and when it terminates, it says "Done connecting", but it has no connection. No indication of errors.

I have tried applying my limited knowledge of ifconfig and dhcpcd, and it seems to do the same. dhcpcd takes a looong time, and finishes with no indication of errors, but remains unconnected.

I'll be happy to give more details, if you point me in the right direction. For now I've plugged the good old cable, and I am very pleased with the system. Great work.

soren

[vector]

Theoretically what version of Slackware is this new VL supposed to be compatible with?
The OpenOffice package I'm using right now is from the Beta3 discs. But that is an older version of OOo. I will try to find a package that works but the ones I've downloaded from the web for slackware 13 don't run.

dweeberkitty try this one and anyone else that uses openoffice:
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/Uelsk8s/test/openoffice/openoffice.org-3.2.0_eng_US-i586-4vl60.txz
please let me know asap!!!

Thanks,
Vec

[Joe1962]

I'll try it, but I am happily using a repackaged standard build of ooorg. I don't know why it is supposed to be ugly or something, since it follows my window theme and the icon set, while not state of the art 3D glitz (overrated in my opinion) are pretty enough and, even better, very clear as to function. What fixes/extras does the go-oo build have over the standard build?

[toothandnail]

Sorry, I'm getting 404s on all those URLs?

Paul.

oops forgot to trigger osuosl. Try it now you should get thru.

Thanks. Got them. No difference, I'm afraid - still no images visible. Oddly enough, if I use the 'open in file manager', the images do show in the file manager. Just no in Digikam.

Paul.

[GrannyGeek]

Digikam wasn't working on my computer so I rried the new packages. Digikam still can't start. I get this when I start at the terminal prompt:
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libexiv2.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That's the same message I got before the upgrades.

I tried this on my Athlon 64 computer. On the 1.3 GHz Celeron Digikam started, went through its setup wizard, and it looked like everything was fine, but it didn't display any pictures at all or any thumbnails. It didn't complain about not finding libexiv2.so.5. I'll try to check that out later. I didn't try the upgrades on that computer yet.
--GrannyGeek

[GrannyGeek]

I upgraded to the new OOo package. In limited testing, everything was working. I never do equations, wouldn't know how to do one anyway, so I can't say whether equations are working in the new package. I do prefer /opt as the installation location. It's easier to find things in /opt than in /usr/share. Where does OOo install its program icons anyway? I can never find them without a search through several /usr/share/icons directories. I wish OOo kept its icons in an /icon directory along with the rest of the OOo stuff.
--GrannyGeek

[retired1af]

Digikam wasn't working on my computer so I rried the new packages. Digikam still can't start. I get this when I start at the terminal prompt:
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libexiv2.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That's the same message I got before the upgrades.

Same deal here.

[toothandnail]

Digikam wasn't working on my computer so I rried the new packages. Digikam still can't start. I get this when I start at the terminal prompt:
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libexiv2.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That's the same message I got before the upgrades.

Same deal here.

Sounds like you and Granny have upgraded something that pulls in the later exiv2 package. The SOHO RC has this package installed as standard:

exiv2-0.18.1-i586-1vl60

You might be able to reinstall it, but doing so may break whatever it is you've installed that pulled it in. The other option would be to create a symlink from /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.6.0.0 to /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.5. Should work.....

Paul.

[MikeCindi]

Creating a symlink to libexiv.so.6.0.0 named libexiv2.so.5 allows digikam to start. I was unable to import any jpegs though and was given the following error:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio-digikamalbums'.

[GrannyGeek]

I created the symlink and had the same results as MikeCindi. Digikam starts but does not display any photos. There are many error messages in the terminal when it's running. I get those with just about every KDE program but some run fine anyway, so I don't know how significant they are. But Digikam isn't working.
--GrannyGeek