f9 revisor silently exits - UPDATE PENDING

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

David L wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM, stan <goedigi89__e at cox.net 
> <mailto:goedigi89__e at cox.net>> wrote:
> 
>     David L wrote:
> 
>         I've never used revisor before, so maybe I don't know what to
>         expect, but when I run revisor in f9, it silently exits.  When I try
>         it on f8, it pops up a gui.  Is f9 revisor broken?
> 
>              David
> 
>     Brings up the gui on F9 here.  I've never used it so I can't say it
>     works, just that is brings up the gui.  Check for message in
>     /var/log/messages or with dmesg.
> 
> 
> dmesg shows nothing.  But running revisor with "--debug 8"
> showed the problem:
> 
> revisor --debug 8
> Setting options from configuration file
> <snip>...
> Setting gui_mode to False (from command line)
> <snip>...
> Setting cli_mode to False (from command line)
> <snip>...
> Architecture list: ['athlon', 'i686', 'i586', 'i486', 'i386', 'noarch']
> 
> I don't know why it decided to not run in gui mode.  This
> was a new f9 install updated as of this morning.  The only
> thing I can think of is that the first time I tried to to run it
> from the command line was via a ssh session without display
> forwarding.  I realized my mistake and forwarded displays
> the second time I tried it but the behavior was the same...
> did it remember my first attempt and disable the gui?
> Or is it non-gui by default in f9?
> 

So... This behavior was caused by the routines detecting the mode. 
Instead of falling back to GUI mode it just... failed.

There's an update pending for F9 that solves this problem.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip