I just tried to merge desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2, and got the following access violations: >>> Install desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2 into /var/tmp/portage/desklet-sidecandy gmail-0.4.2/image/ category x11-plugins * Installing Display gmail ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /root/.gnome2 (process:18240): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome2 directory: P ermission denied Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 23, in _pretty_excepthook deep_trace = True) File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py", line 77, in format if (path and vfs.exists(path)): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'exists' Original exception was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-control-getid", line 5, in ? from plugin.Interface import Interface File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/plugin/Interface.py", line 2, in ? from main import _ File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 6, in ? from utils import vfs File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py", line 119, in _new_imp module = _old_imp(name, globs, locls, fromlist) File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/vfs.py", line 16, in ? import gnome.vfs as gnomevfs File "/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py", line 119, in _new_imp module = _old_imp(name, globs, locls, fromlist) RuntimeError: could not initialise gnome.vfs * Installing Control man: prepallstrip: strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded >>> Completed installing desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2 into /var/tmp/portage/desk let-sidecandygmail-0.4.2/image/ --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-x11-plugins_-_desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2-18052.log" mkdir: /root/.gnome2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... which looks suspiciously like the access violation bugs that the rest of gnome hit with scrollkeeper earlier this week.
It doesn't look at all like it and the gnome2 eclass was never broken, the ebuilds were sort of. That it sandboxes doesn't mean it's the same thing. Anyway, weren't you the guy with the other odd gconf sandbox, I'm starting to suspect your sys more than anything. Where is your 'emerge info' btw, you should always provide it.
Okay - I misunderstood about the gnome2 problem. I did have an odd sanbox failure, but that was only once when I tried using the gnome2.eclass "fix" that someone suggested for the gnome problem - so I guess this was probably caused by a mixture of the broken gnome ebuilds, and a broken gnome2.eclass (due to this change). Everything else gnome-wise is now installed fine. In addition, I've just rebuilt gdesklets-core itself, and this worked - so I suspect it's an ebuild/eclass problem... emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r6,dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 16:16:35)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r6, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.4_p6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/xkb /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi adns alsa arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 caps cdr crypt cscope cups curl dbus dedicated dga directfb divx4linux dts dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firebird flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran freetds freetype gb gcj gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icc-pgo ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib informix innodb ipv6 jack java javamail javascript jms jmx joystick jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libgda libwww lua lzo mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbox mcal memlimit mikmod milter mmap mmx mng mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mssql multislot mysql nas ncurses net netboot network nls nntp nptl oci8 odbc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils png pnp portaudio postgres ppds prelude python qdbm qt quicktime readline real samba sasl scanner sdl skey slang slp smartcard sndfile snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd test theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xanim xface xim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv xvid zeo zlib video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
So let me try to get this straight: You changed your gnome2.eclass back to what it should be, recompiled gdesklets-core, and then everything started to work again?
No - once I heard that the gnome apps were fixed, I deleted the modified gnome2.eclass and resynced. I can build gdesklets-core without problems (my point was that this build does work, so I suspect a problem with gdesklets.eclass) I've now successfully merged desklet-sidecandygmail (perhaps rebuilding gdesklets-core did fix it!) - but I noticed the following: >>> Merging x11-plugins/desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2 to / >>> /means,/ >>> /DISPLAY/ >>> /X/ --- /usr/ --- /usr/lib/ --- /usr/lib/gdesklets/ ... >>> /usr/share/doc/desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2/html/icons-readme/Readme.htm >>> /usually/ >>> /isn't/ >>> /that/ >>> /running!/ >>> /variable/ >>> /set,/ >>> /is/ >>> /which/ >>> /NOT/ >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... ... and my root directory now looks like this: # ls / DISPLAY boot home lost+found opt sbin that var NOT dev is means, proc set, tmp variable X etc isn't media root space usr which bin exports lib mnt running! sys usually
More on this: >>> Install desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2 into /var/tmp/portage/desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2/image/ category x11-plugins * Installing Display gmail * Installing Control The DISPLAY variable is NOT set, which usually means, that X isn't running! ... but if I rebuild with DISPLAY set, I get: >>> Install desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2 into /var/tmp/portage/desklet-sidecandygmail-0.4.2/image/ category x11-plugins * Installing Display gmail * Installing Control IGmail_2ix3a2yfiiunm4skqlf1nmpom-2 ... is this Control name right?!
The Control name is correct. That second output is the desired output...this seems like it's a python issue I need to look into. Thanks - this sheds some light on another bug.
It seems that this is an issue with gDesklets - one of the main files it imports checks for DISPLAY and aborts if it's not set. It seems by prepending DISPLAY="${DISPLAY}" to the `emerge` command fixes this issue for me (only after I unset DISPLAY) - can you verify this?
Please resync and try emerging the package again. Is the result the same?
I'm assuming it was fixed.
