Re: NumLock and Background problem with PXES 1.0-15/16

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:10, Sascha Juch wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> after installing PXES 1.0-15/16 (base/pxesconfig) I have discovered a
> few things which shouldn't happen (I think).
> 
> 1) When making the pxes-config package, a strange non deterministic
> warning occures. If I just restart the make process things look fine.
> 
> 2) For the prebuild image the NumLock-Key keeps the state it has set
> by the bios. So if it is turned on it stays turned on the whole time.
> 
> 3) If the X-Windows-System and the ICEWM is loaded it has the
> steelblue4 background loaded.
> 
> 
> To 1)
> I installed pxes packages from the source tgz-balls (In a second try I
> tested it with the RPM-packages but the results from 2) and 3) are the
> same).
> 
> Pxes-base installs fine without any complications. However
> installation of pxes-config leaves me with the following:
> 
> -----------------SNIP--------------
> [root@devbabe pxes-1.0-install]# cd pxesconfig-1.0
> [root@devbabe pxesconfig-1.0]# perl Makefile.PL
> Checking for Gtk.. ok
> Checking for Gnome.. ok
> Checking for Glade-Perl.. ok
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Use of uninitialized value in -d at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm
> line 664.
> Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
>         COPYING
>         Changelog
>         Documentation/COPYING
>         Documentation/ChangeLog
>         Documentation/FAQ
>         Documentation/INSTALL
>         Documentation/Makefile
>         Documentation/NEWS
>         Documentation/README
>         Documentation/ROADMAP
>         Documentation/TODO
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/quick-start.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step1.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step2.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step3.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step4.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step5-rdp.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step5-xdm.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step5.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step6.html
>         Documentation/html/quick-start/step7.html
>         FAQ
>         INSTALL
>         MANIFEST
>         META.yml
>         Makefile.PL
>         NEWS
>         Pxesconfig/Pxesconfig.pm
>         Pxesconfig/PxesconfigDruidPage.pm
>         Pxesconfig/PxesconfigGUI.pm
>         Pxesconfig/PxesconfigGUIUI.pm
>         Pxesconfig/PxesconfigModel.pm
>         Pxesconfig/SubPxesconfigGUI.pm
>         PxesconfigGUI.glade
>         README
>         ROADMAP
>         TODO
>         etc/ica/icaclient.files
>         etc/ica/icaclient.requires
>         etc/ica/localsession.files
>         etc/samba/smb.conf
>         lib/Pxesconfig.pm
>         lib/PxesconfigGUI.pm
>         lib/PxesconfigGUIUI.pm
>         lib/PxesconfigModel.pm
>         lib/SubPxesconfigGUI.pm
>         pixmaps/Logo.xpm
>         pixmaps/aquarium.png
>         pixmaps/card.png
>         pixmaps/cd.png
>         pixmaps/color.png
>         pixmaps/computer.png
>         pixmaps/disks.png
>         pixmaps/empty.png
>         pixmaps/floppy.png
>         pixmaps/fonts.png
>         pixmaps/glade2perl_logo.xpm
>         pixmaps/ibm-dis.png
>         pixmaps/ibm.png
>         pixmaps/ica.png
>         pixmaps/initrd.png
>         pixmaps/keyboard.png
>         pixmaps/keyboard_layout.png
>         pixmaps/monitor.png
>         pixmaps/mouse.png
>         pixmaps/network.png
>         pixmaps/nomachine.png
>         pixmaps/printer.png
>         pixmaps/processor.png
>         pixmaps/pxes-tiny.png
>         pixmaps/pxes2.png
>         pixmaps/pxesconfig.png
>         pixmaps/rdp.png
>         pixmaps/sound.png
>         pixmaps/ssh-dis.png
>         pixmaps/ssh.png
>         pixmaps/tarantella.png
>         pixmaps/telnet-dis.png
>         pixmaps/telnet.png
>         pixmaps/terminal-empty.png
>         pixmaps/thinlinc.png
>         pixmaps/vnc.png
>         pixmaps/wfcmgr.png
>         pixmaps/x.png
>         pixmaps/xdm-dis.png
>         pixmaps/xdm.png
>         pxes-tiny-48x48.xpm
>         pxesconfig
>         pxesconfig.desktop
>         pxesconfig.spec
> Please inform the author.
> Use of uninitialized value in -d at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm
> line 664.
> Use of uninitialized value in -d at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm
> line 664.
> Setting RELEASE = 6 at Makefile.PL line 134.
> Writing Makefile for Pxesconfig
> [root@devbabe pxesconfig-1.0]#
> [root@devbabe pxesconfig-1.0]# perl Makefile.PL
> Checking for Gtk.. ok
> Checking for Gnome.. ok
> Checking for Glade-Perl.. ok
> Use of uninitialized value in -d at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm
> line 664.
> Use of uninitialized value in -d at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/File/Find.pm
> line 664.
> Setting RELEASE = 6 at Makefile.PL line 134.
> Writing Makefile for Pxesconfig
> [root@devbabe pxesconfig-1.0]#
> -----------------SNIP--------------
> 
> So if I start it the first time, I get a bunch of file missing
> warnings while at the second start everything seems to be fine (except
> the warnings from Find.pm). make, make test (which is sensless at the
> moment) and make install worked fine.
All of these are MakeMaker problems.
Why are you receiving this: Setting RELEASE = 6 at Makefile.PL line 134.
Is this from pxesconfig-1.0-16 ?
> 
> To 2)
> I checked the prebuild images 1.0-15PB.squash on three different types
> of hardware. All the times a local desktop popped up with the
> NumLock-Key activated. However if I start pxesconfig and click through
> the wizzard on my own (leaving only the local desktop active) as soon
> as the PXE-loading phase is over, NumLock LED turns off.
PREBUILT configuration file is here:
http://pxes.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/PREBUILT_images#PXES_PREBUILT_configuration

> 
> I checked X_NUMLOCK in /var/run/pxes/env and it is set to '1'.
> 
> To 3)
> Same with the background: With the prebuild image a nice steelblue
> background is set in the Window Manager but with the custom build
> there is no background (only the default psychodelic X-Window
> background). /var/run/pxes/env has X_ BACKGROUND_COLOR='steelblue4'
> set. I don't see anything suspecious under /var/log/icewm-session
> (except complaining about verdana fonts the wm cannot load). But I
> don't think this should lead to a missing background.
> 
> I don't think I missed any dependencies, as the tgz-balls would
> complain otherwise. It is a freshly installed Red Hat 9 system. I also
> checked this on another Red Hat 9 system with the same effects.
> 
> Any ideas, comments, whatever? 
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Sascha.
-- 
Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]>
PXES Universal Linux Thin Client
http://pxes.sf.net



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