FS#16634 - [xfce4-settings-helper] XI is not present or too old.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alexander Haeussler (eminor) - Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 07:30 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 02 November 2009, 22:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:

I updated to xorg-server 1.7 recently and xfce4-settings-helper reports at startup:

xfce4-settings-helper-CRITICAL **: XI is not present or too old.

xfce4-settings-helper is running, but when i try to start the mouse-configuration tool it fails with the same error-message. There's a test for XI 1.4 in the sourcecode of xfce4-settings-helper (pointers.c) which produces the message. I think this test is not successful cause inputproto is version 2.0 or libxi 1.3.

if (!version || !version->present || version->major_version < 1 || version->minor_version < 4)
{
/* print error */
g_critical ("XI is not present or too old.");

/* no channel */
helper->channel = NULL;
}

Package Versions: extra/xfce4-settings 4.6.3-2, testing/inputproto 2.0-1, local/libxi 1.3-1
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Monday, 02 November 2009, 22:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 15 October 2009, 10:14 GMT
please ask on the Xfce mailing lists, I'm reading there.
Comment by Alexander Haeussler (eminor) - Thursday, 15 October 2009, 11:39 GMT
i found out that it's already fixed in git:

http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit/?id=22bc922adac9f1d87dc5114ea4f65bc027932baa

thanks
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 16 October 2009, 19:02 GMT
Is there any function broken in the current state? I don't get any msg when starting Xfce.
Comment by Vlad Grecescu (b100dian) - Monday, 19 October 2009, 17:53 GMT
For me, xfce4-mouse-settings does not start (the settings applet). And since I have one of my mices with the buttons reversed (the one that's not a touchpad) - I notice that they stopped being reversed by xfce. So there's 'something' that does not run at session start.
Comment by Alexander Haeussler (eminor) - Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 20:34 GMT
Sorry for my late reply, i thought it's done with the patch and you know what to do. :) The broken function is, as i described first and Vlad, the mouse-configuration tool (xfce-mouse-settings) does not start. The message was in first TTY where i started the X-Server. I think it's your decition as developer if you want to apply the patch or wait for next stable release.
Comment by Alexander Haeussler (eminor) - Sunday, 01 November 2009, 03:37 GMT
Here is my PKGBUILD with patches from 2009-10-11:

http://rapidshare.com/files/300742854/xfce4-settings-4.6.3.patched.tar.bz2.html

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