Re: ROX-Session 0.30

On 03/19/10 13:11, Stephen Watson wrote:
> "Robert E. Beaudoin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/18/10 15:29, Stephen Watson wrote:
>>> After upgrading to SuSE 11.2 the XXMLRPC in ROX-Session broke.  I
> haven't
>>> worked out why (ClientCall seems to never return), but I have a
> workaround.
>>>
>>> The current SVN version and snapshot at
>>> http://rox.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ROX-Session.tgz use ROX-Lib 2.0.5
> to do
>>> the interprocess communication.  Since this defaults to DBus it works.
>>>
>>> On a slightly related point, what is the minimum version of Python that
> we
>>> are requiring these days?  Can I assume 2.4 or later, or are people
> still
>>> using 2.3?
>>>
>>
>> Not sure if this is related, but recently I've started seeing a problem
>> in ROX-Session:  the "session settings" and "logout" buttons no longer
>> work.  Press them and nothing happens, except that after pressing them
>> the "cancel" button also stops working.  (If the cancel button is
>> pressed before the others it cancels the ROX-Session dialog.)  If I run
>> /usr/lib/rox/ROX-Session/AppRun from a terminal, press "session
>> settings", then kill the (quiescent) app with control-c, the backtrace
>> indicates that the app is in the get_response method of a ClientCall
>> object, waiting in a gtk main loop (xxmlrpc.py, line 193).   
> 
> That's the problem I saw.
> 
>> I'm running
>> ROX-Session 0.30 (gentoo package version 0.30-r4), rox-lib 2.0.6, and
>> rox-filer 2.10, on amd64 gentoo linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r10.
> 
> Do you know your Python and PyGTK versions?
> 
>> To the list:  Does this sound like the same problem?  Should I supply
>> any further information?  To Stephen:  Is your workaround to downgrade
>> to rox lib 2.0.5?
> 
> No it's the modified ROX-Session with ROX-Lib at least 2.0.5.  Version 2.0.6
> will be fine.
> 

Thanks, Stephen.  Ah, you're saying the CVS snapshot for ROX-Session
(plus ROX-Lib 2.0.5 or newer) works, correct?  My python version:  2.6.4
(gentoo ebuild 2.6.4-r1).  PyGTK 2.14.1 (gentoo ebuild 2.14.1-r1).
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs 20091231.  gtkmm 2.18.2.  gtk+ 2.18.7.

Robert E. Beaudoin

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