[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000071]: Missing items in Settings Manager on amd64
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000071
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Reporter: darrylbleau
Handler: olivier
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Project: XFCE
Bug ID: 0000071
Category: other
Reproducibility: always
Severity: minor
Priority: normal
Status: assigned
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Date Submitted: 2004-01-10 01:21 GMT
Last Modified: 2004-04-26 15:28 GMT
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Summary: Missing items in Settings Manager on amd64
Description:
After building xfce4 on an amd64 box, there are several items that you
cannot access in the Settings Manager. (The same xfce4 install on a x86
box works flawlessly). Most notably, there are no settings for the panel.
If I right click on the panel and select 'properties', I get
"Multi-Channel Manager Error: No such plugin "xfce"". This same problem
has occured with xfce 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.0.3. All of these builds work
fine on a x86 box.
My suspicion is that this is a 64 bit problem, though I'm not sure.
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darrylbleau - 2004-01-10 01:25 GMT
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I forgot to mention, the only things I see in the Settings Manager are:
"Desktop: backdrop", "Desktop: workspaces", "Session management", "Window
Manager", "Workspace Margines".
I have installed:
libxfce4mcs-4.0.3
libxfce4util-4.0.3
xfce4-4.0.3
xfce4-base-4.0.3
xfce4-panel-4.0.3
xfce4-session-0.1.1
xfce4-clipman-0.4.0
xfce4-datetime-0.2
xfce4-iconbox-4.0.3
xfce4-minicmd-0.2.0
xfce4-mixer-4.0.3
xfce4-netload-0.2.2
xfce4-notes-0.9.7
xfce4-showdesktop-0.3.0
xfce4-systemload-0.3.4
xfce4-systray-4.0.3
xfce4-toys-4.0.3
xfce4-trigger-launcher-4.0.3
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olivier - 2004-01-10 09:42 GMT
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I rather vote for an endianess problem. There was a somehow very similar
problem alreay reported some time ago (see
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=842074&group_id=19869&atid=119869)
What endianness does amd64 use?
TIA
Olivier.
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olivier - 2004-01-10 21:24 GMT
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Can you try to provide a bit more of information?
Try this:
- Kill the xfce-mcs-manager dameon
- From an X terminal, restart xfce-mcs-manager
- Post the messages displayed
If xfce-mcs-manager can't load a plugin, it should tell why on the log.
TIA
Olivier.
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olivier - 2004-01-10 21:44 GMT
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oh, and along with a list of files you have in /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/
(or adjust to the prefix you used when you ran configure script, could be
/usr/local/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins/ for example)
TIA
Olivier.
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darrylbleau - 2004-01-14 20:09 GMT
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Ok, I killed the xfce-mcs-manager (-9) then restarted it at the terminal.
It didn't output any messages at all.
Here is an ls -al from /usr/lib/xfce4/mcs-plugins :
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71K Jan 9 11:22
backdrop_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 Jan 9 11:22
backdrop_settings.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60K Jan 9 11:22
backdrop_settings.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48K Jan 9 11:23 keyboard_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3K Jan 9 11:23
keyboard_plugin.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48K Jan 12 12:29
libxfce4settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3K Jan 12 12:29
libxfce4settings.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97K Jan 9 11:20 libxffmsettings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:20
libxffmsettings.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151K Jan 9 11:16 margins_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 835 Jan 9 11:16 margins_plugin.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154K Jan 9 11:16 margins_plugin.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37K Jan 9 11:23 mouse_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:23 mouse_plugin.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K Dec 4 13:11
session_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 849 Dec 4 13:11
session_settings.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39K Dec 4 13:11
session_settings.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39K Jan 9 11:23 ui_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:23 ui_plugin.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38K Jan 9 11:22
workspaces_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 870 Jan 9 11:22
workspaces_settings.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40K Jan 9 11:22
workspaces_settings.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23K Jan 9 11:29
xfcalendar_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:29
xfcalendar_plugin.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44K Jan 9 11:25
xfce4-iconbox_settings.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:25
xfce4-iconbox_settings.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32K Jan 9 11:24
xftaskbar_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2K Jan 9 11:24
xftaskbar_plugin.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82K Jan 9 11:16 xfwm4_plugin.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 821 Jan 9 11:16 xfwm4_plugin.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68K Jan 9 11:16 xfwm4_plugin.so
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darrylbleau - 2004-01-14 20:12 GMT
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I should also mention that these don't seem to be the only problems.. the
taskbar doesn't seem to work at all (windows don't show up on it), and the
'add new item' on the panel menu doesn't list all the items it should. I
was asking in #xfce on freenode about it, someone told me the problems
were known and would be fixed shortly. Someone pointed me to
www.moongroup.com, who apprarently had solved the problems by running the
following set of commands to build with:
/bin/touch NEWS
/usr/bin/libtoolize --force
/usr/bin/aclocal
/usr/bin/automake
configure
make LIBTOOL=/usr/bin/libtool
I've tried this on several modules and it doesn't seem to help.
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darrylbleau - 2004-01-14 20:56 GMT
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oh, and the athlon64 is little endian, so it's probably not an endian
problem unless you code on an old mac or something :)
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olivier - 2004-01-18 22:31 GMT
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Can you try those sources:
http://xfce.org/archive/test/experimental/
These have been built using a more recent version of libtool, automake,
and autoconf.
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darrylbleau - 2004-01-19 18:48 GMT
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These seem to work! I now have settings for most things in the mcs manager,
the taskbar works properly, and I have most things on the 'add new item'
menu. The only things that I either don't have settings for or aren't in
the 'add new item' menu are those that either weren't in the experimental
dir you pointed me to or were in there but the CRC was the same as the old
file I had.
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huysmans - 2004-04-26 15:28 GMT
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