[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:              2004-01-10 21:24 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.