[Bug 233603] Review Request: guidance - System administration tools

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Summary: Review Request: guidance - System administration tools


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233603


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------- Additional Comments From hlingler at verizon.net  2007-06-24 00:55 EST -------
Reference:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=512929&aid=1737344&group_id=65974

"guidance" package broken

The guidance software package for FC6
(http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/6/i386/stable/RPMS/guidanc
e-0.7.1-1.fc6.i386.rpm) is seriously broken.
For various reasons, I wanted to use the KDE desktop and kdm exclusively,
and in order to fully integrate KDE/kdm, it was necessary to remove the
several standard system-config-* software packages so that KDE could "take
over." I had hoped that "guidance" would provide some of the functionality
lost by removing these packages. Several problems immediately surfaced:
1) ~/.xsession-errors: the first line is always: "warning:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/40guidance-displayconfig_restore does not end in
.sh extension, ignoring"; if this is deliberate, I apologize, but nowhere
in the documentation did I find anything telling me to change/fix/configure
this item; if this script is meant to be run at start-up, then it's not
happening; if it's a "fall-back" or "back-up" feature, then I'm confused; I
am not sure whether or not to change this item so that it runs; my display
and desktop are functioning just fine, so I have left it alone;
2) Missing dependencies: PyKDE is required for runtime; the apps included
in guidance did not start until I installed PyKDE - the CLI errors pointed
me towards this; there may be other missing dependencies (PyQt, sip,
pykdeextensions, hsqldb), but these packages were already installed on my box
anyhow;
3) environment variables: after installing PyKDE, CLI errors told me that
some java-type file couldn't be found; I traced this to
/etc/sysconfig/hsqldb, which was looking for a file in the path
"JAVA_HOME", but on my box it's "J2RE_HOME"; I fixed the entry in
/etc/sysconfig/hsqldb, and I realize that this may be a problem with the
latest java and/or hsqldb packages, but without any warning, other users of
guidance will run into the same problems; perhaps guidance could be somehow
told to look-for/pass-on both paths to hsqldb and the other apps it uses at
runtime;
4) Permissions: the apps included in guidance will start for any user,
however, they will not run correctly and/or will yield spurious output
unless run by root; I believe that these apps were meant to be run by root
primarily;
5) Menu entries: the *.desktop items supplied with the package do not
integrate into the KDE menu; I had to manually add them;
6) KDE Kontrol Center: even after all of the above tweaking, guidance apps
will not start inside the KDE Kontrol Center as they are supposed to; I
haven't figured out this problem yet; the typical CLI error is: "Traceback
(most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/apps/guidance/wineconfig.py", line 19, in ?
from qt import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qt.so: undefined symbol:
PyUnicode_Type
error: ***failed to import module"; same error for each module
(displayconfig.py, serviceconfig.py, etc.);
7) Other errors: when run as root (or even as a normal user) as stand-alone
apps (outside of Kontrol Center), displayconfig and mountconfig appear to
run and work as intended;
serviceconfig CLI error: "rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection
refused";
userconfig errors: "Didn't read default DIR_MODE
Didn't read default DIR_MODE
no user removed
no user removed
no user removed";
wineconfig errors: "regedit: Can't export. Registry key
'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager'
does not exist!
Success
regedit: Can't export. Registry key
'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\AppDefaults' does not exist!
Success
regedit: Can't export. Registry key
'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides' does not exist!
Success"

I realize that this is a rather long list, and I apologize in advance if
any of these errors are caused by my own oversights; if any of these items
should be directed to the developer(s) of guidance itself, please let me
know and I will do so. If any additional info is needed, or if I can help
in any other way, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards,
Vince
Linux 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 #1 SMP Wed May 16 18:59:18 EDT 2007 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux
kde-3.4.1-1.0 from KDE-RedHat
guidance-0.7.1-1.fc6 from KDE-RedHat

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