gnome weather applet problem
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From: Keith Blow on 27 Sep 2007 14:12 I know I must have done something..... The gweather applet used to work on the machine I'm using now. It works fine on my machine at home (Debian testing like this one) and on my 64bit machine at work. Here, it never manages to make a connection. netstat -ta never shows any connections (I've managed to catch them on the other machines) and the applet simply reports "updating...". I tried running gnome as root, same problem. I also tried another program which contacts the same servers and that works fine. You (well I) can't run gweather from the command line (to see any errors on stdout) as it is a library component of gpanel. I've reinstalled all the libraries that the gnome-applets package depends on. I've rebooted the computer. The applet still responds, it just seems not to be able to create a TCP connection. So finally my question... how else do I get some information on what is (not) happening so I can work out what to try changing? -- Keith Blow
From: Geoffrey Clements on 28 Sep 2007 03:39 "Keith Blow" <keith(a)backblow-loft.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:fdgrpr$s37$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk... >I know I must have done something..... > > The gweather applet used to work on the machine I'm using now. It works > fine on my machine at home (Debian testing like this one) and on my > 64bit machine at work. Here, it never manages to make a connection. > netstat -ta never shows any connections (I've managed to catch them on > the other machines) and the applet simply reports "updating...". > I tried running gnome as root, same problem. I also tried another > program which contacts the same servers and that works fine. > > You (well I) can't run gweather from the command line (to see any errors > on stdout) as it is a library component of gpanel. > > I've reinstalled all the libraries that the gnome-applets package > depends on. I've rebooted the computer. > > The applet still responds, it just seems not to be able to create a TCP > connection. > > So finally my question... > how else do I get some information on what is (not) happening so I can > work out what to try changing? How about renaming the configuration file (or moving it) and seeing if you can reconfigure the applet manually. Just a thought, I don't use Gnome. -- Geoff
From: Keith Blow on 28 Sep 2007 03:55 Geoffrey Clements wrote: > "Keith Blow" <keith(a)backblow-loft.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:fdgrpr$s37$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk... >> I know I must have done something..... >>.......... >> >> So finally my question... >> how else do I get some information on what is (not) happening so I can >> work out what to try changing? > > How about renaming the configuration file (or moving it) and seeing if you > can reconfigure the applet manually. Just a thought, I don't use Gnome. > Good idea but this applet does not (afaik) use a configuration file. If you delete the applet and then add it again all the settings are back to defaults. locate gweather does not provide anything interesting either. -- Keith Blow
From: Liam O'Toole on 28 Sep 2007 05:24 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:55:13 +0100 Keith Blow <kb(a)somewhere.home> wrote: > Geoffrey Clements wrote: > > "Keith Blow" <keith(a)backblow-loft.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > > news:fdgrpr$s37$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk... > >> I know I must have done something..... > >>.......... > >> > >> So finally my question... > >> how else do I get some information on what is (not) happening so I > >> can work out what to try changing? > > > > How about renaming the configuration file (or moving it) and seeing > > if you can reconfigure the applet manually. Just a thought, I > > don't use Gnome. > > > Good idea but this applet does not (afaik) use a configuration file. > If you delete the applet and then add it again all the settings are > back to defaults. locate gweather does not provide anything > interesting either. > I bet that it uses the gconf database for its configuration. Using gconf-editor you can search for 'weather' to find the relevant keys and values. -- Liam
From: Keith Blow on 1 Oct 2007 10:40
Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:55:13 +0100 > Keith Blow <kb(a)somewhere.home> wrote: > >> Geoffrey Clements wrote: >>> "Keith Blow" <keith(a)backblow-loft.demon.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:fdgrpr$s37$1$8300dec7(a)news.demon.co.uk... >>>> I know I must have done something..... >>>> .......... >> Good idea but this applet does not (afaik) use a configuration file. >> If you delete the applet and then add it again all the settings are >> back to defaults. locate gweather does not provide anything >> interesting either. >> > > I bet that it uses the gconf database for its configuration. Using > gconf-editor you can search for 'weather' to find the relevant keys and > values. > Indeed it does and I forgot to look here. However, all the keys are in /schemas/apps/gweather/prefs and all the keys take the same value "schema" exactly as they do on the two working installations. -- Keith Blow |