Having a problem with Pidgin that may have come after the 5.2 upgrade. I don't use pidgin daily, but the last time I used it (a week or two ago) it was fine. Now, when clicking the icon nothing visible happens. When I open an xterm and run it from there I get this:
$ pidgin libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
and the terminal does not return to a prompt. there is no visible window for Pidgin, but parts of it may be running, as I heard the sound that (I think) means "buddy comes online".
running "ps ax | grep -y pidgin" returns one process, so it's not entirely kaput.
Anyone else seem this, or anyone have suggestions?
Oh, also, I've recently enabled "desktop effects". I think I'll disable that and see if it helps.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:30:42AM -0400, fred smith wrote:
Having a problem with Pidgin that may have come after the 5.2 upgrade. I don't use pidgin daily, but the last time I used it (a week or two ago) it was fine. Now, when clicking the icon nothing visible happens. When I open an xterm and run it from there I get this:
$ pidgin libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
and the terminal does not return to a prompt. there is no visible window for Pidgin, but parts of it may be running, as I heard the sound that (I think) means "buddy comes online".
running "ps ax | grep -y pidgin" returns one process, so it's not entirely kaput.
Anyone else seem this, or anyone have suggestions?
Oh, also, I've recently enabled "desktop effects". I think I'll disable that and see if it helps.
No, turning desktop effects back off makes no difference. same result as described above.
Suggestions welcome.
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:16 AM, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
Can you attempt to start it from the shell, and let us know what happens?
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:28:39AM -0700, Rodney Myers wrote:
On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:16 AM, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
Can you attempt to start it from the shell, and let us know what happens?
My original posting contained that:
$ pidgin libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any service files
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 14:50 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:28:39AM -0700, Rodney Myers wrote:
On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:16 AM, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
<snip>
Can you attempt to start it from the shell, and let us know what happens?
My original posting contained that:
$ pidgin libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error. (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any service files
I've not looked. But if you have run makewhatis, then apropos or "man -k dbus" lists some man pages. Maybe something is buried in there. I have no guess as to which, if any, of the below are useful.
$ man -k dbus dbus (rpm) - D-BUS message bus dbus-cleanup-sockets (1) - clean up leftover sockets in a directory dbus-daemon (1) - Message bus daemon dbus-glib (rpm) - GLib bindings for D-Bus dbus-launch (1) - Utility to start a message bus from a shell script dbus-monitor (1) - debug probe to print message bus messages dbus-python (rpm) - D-Bus Python Bindings dbus-send (1) - Send a message to a message bus dbus-uuidgen (1) - Utility to generate UUIDs dbus-x11 (rpm) - X11-requiring add-ons for D-BUS
<snip sig stuff>
HTH
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:16 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
A new icon should appear in the Notification Area when you start pidgin. Clicking on it will show the Buddy List.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:16 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
A new icon should appear in the Notification Area when you start pidgin. Clicking on it will show the Buddy List.
Ah. there's already one in the top panel. So I see a strange little icon there that says it's for pidgin, so when I click that the buddy list opens up. which is fine, thanks for pointing me to it. But I'm curios how it got into that state where it doesn't open. I'm sure I've not done anything to change it.
Thanks again!
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:01 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:16 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
A new icon should appear in the Notification Area when you start pidgin. Clicking on it will show the Buddy List.
Ah. there's already one in the top panel. So I see a strange little icon there that says it's for pidgin, so when I click that the buddy list opens up. which is fine, thanks for pointing me to it. But I'm curios how it got into that state where it doesn't open. I'm sure I've not done anything to change it.
---- I believe that is the intended behavior - that you can have pidgin running and the only evidence is the 'status tray' when pidgin is running in a minimal state and from which you can open various windows back up.
Craig
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:11:33PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 16:01 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 12:16 -0400, fred smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
Suggestions welcome.
Add a Notification Area to your panel, or look there if you already have one.
OK, done that. Now what?
Nothing happens there when I try to start pidgin. What should I be seeing?
A new icon should appear in the Notification Area when you start pidgin. Clicking on it will show the Buddy List.
Ah. there's already one in the top panel. So I see a strange little icon there that says it's for pidgin, so when I click that the buddy list opens up. which is fine, thanks for pointing me to it. But I'm curios how it got into that state where it doesn't open. I'm sure I've not done anything to change it.
I believe that is the intended behavior - that you can have pidgin running and the only evidence is the 'status tray' when pidgin is running in a minimal state and from which you can open various windows back up.
Sounds reasonable. but that's not the way it has worked here in the past.
Thanks for the tip!
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