FS#9341 - Kernel 2.6.24-1 : cannot launch gnome-system-tools

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Saturday, 26 January 2008, 15:51 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 28 January 2008, 13:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: Since I upgraded kernel, it is not possible to launch gnome-system-tools.

I try to to run time-admin, and I got this error :

(time-admin:7937): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: Process /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl exited with status 127

Running ArchLinux 64 bits.

Additional info:
* Kernel 2.6.24-1
* gnome-system-tools 2.20.0-5


Steps to reproduce: See details.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 28 January 2008, 13:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 26 January 2008, 15:53 GMT
probably related to acpi not available, please try 24-2 package
Comment by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Saturday, 26 January 2008, 17:24 GMT
When I googled "/usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl exited with status 127" I found it could be related to a dbus problem.

I will try. Thanks for your tip.
Comment by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Sunday, 27 January 2008, 19:57 GMT
Also - I will not have time until tomorrow at least - could it be a perl 5.10.0 related bug ? As for  bug 9078  ?!

Comment by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Sunday, 27 January 2008, 21:30 GMT
Well, still seeing this bug. I tried to build system-tools against new version of perl. Do not work at all.

Testing with 2.6.24-2 kernel...
Comment by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Monday, 28 January 2008, 12:16 GMT
Got the guilty here : all perls packages !

I had to add this line in my /etc/pacman.conf

IgnorePkg = perl cairo-perl glib-perl gtk2-perl perl-locale-gettext perl-text-iconv perl-xml-twig perl-xml-simple perlxml

Which list all the perl related updates I was asked to install.
Comment by Hugo Doria (hdoria) - Monday, 28 January 2008, 12:19 GMT
Well, seens to be a perl problem. Im gonna try to recompile gst using the new perl.
Comment by Frederic Bezies (fredbezies) - Monday, 28 January 2008, 12:35 GMT
Don't bother do it. :)

I tried it, as I said in another comment, problem remains. If you can tell me what to do with that new perl version, be blessed for that ;)

So, ignoring perl updates is the way to go for gnome x86_64 users.

And how to use IgnoreGroup option in pacman.conf in order to avoid a long IgnorePkg line ?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 28 January 2008, 13:10 GMT
Frederic, I guess you are using Testing and have all those perl packages upgraded.
Hugo, just a reminder that you should not rebuild Community packages against packages in Testing. Please wait until new perl packages hit Core/Extra.
I'm closing this as "Not a bug" now.