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Zaurus - pdaXrom / A Problem Of Gnumeric

« on: February 09, 2005, 09:11:19 pm »

I am having a different problem startin gnumeric on my SL-C860. When I try to launch gnumeric, an error message appears as follows:

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An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information in gnumeric. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
The shell shows a large number of errors like the following:

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** (gnumeric:9565): WARNING **: Unable to load key '/apps/gnumeric/blah/blah : because Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

** (gnumeric:9565): WARNING **: Using default value 'some_value'

(gnumeric:9565): Bonobo-WARNING **: Failed to get '/desktop/gnome/some/other/blah': 'Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'
Meanwhile, clicking OK a few hundred times will actually make the error dialogs go away. Then I have to go through the same thing again when I try to open an existing file. This time, when I madly clock OK to make the dialog dissappear, the file fails to load.

Gnumeric is not usable for me in this state.

I have tried removing gnumeric and reinstalling it - same issue.
I have tried reflashing the ROM from scratch and installing gnome-base-libs before installing gnumeric - same issue.

Considering this started right away from a fresh ROM flash, I am suprised that no one else has had this problem.

Is there some initialization step I must perform for gnome, bonobo, or CORBA before gnome apps will work in the new ROM?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / have we come up with a fix for the DATE/TIME yet?

« on: July 13, 2004, 07:39:12 pm »

The onboard clock has to be managed by the kernel, so this would have to be addressed in a future version of the ROM. I don't believe you'll see a fix in 1.0.6, but it has already been brought up in another thread. We are all aware of it.

Another idea would be to port ntp to pdaxrom. That would allow the Z to sync to a network clock at regular intervals. I believe this is on the roadmap also.

The thread on 1.0.6, while it is getting quite long, might be a better place to inquire.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Scripting in gnumeric

« on: July 12, 2004, 10:14:31 pm »

I have been trying to get some kind of scripting console to work in gnumeric - so I can write custom functions.

Gnumeric is supposed to include a Python console and python-loader plugin. See here

Python and PyGTK are already available for pdaxrom, and I thought that py-gnumeric would need to be ported also, but I am not sure if that is the case.

gnumeric-1.2.2-1 currently available on the feeds includes a CORBA Interface plugin, which supposedly provides a CORBA scripting interface, but gnumeric segfaults whenever I try to enable it.

Also, gnumeric-1.2.2-1 for pdaxrom does not appear to include python-loader.

Has anyone got scripting to work in gnumeric on pdaxrom?

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gnumeric again

« on: July 03, 2004, 04:06:43 pm »

Oh - soething else about your segfaults.

I sometimes see these too, but if I try to run gnumeric the same way a second time it comes up properly.

Not sure why, but you may want to look into it also.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gnumeric again

« on: July 03, 2004, 04:05:01 pm »

I did discover something which might help you.

When installing software on /mnt/cf or /mnt/card, the supporting libraries are stored on the same device, which is not always added to $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, where the application expects to find them.

I added the following paths to /etc/ld.so.conf

/mnt/card/usr/lib
/mnt/card/usr/local/lib
/mnt/card/usr/X11R6/lib

and then ran ldconfig as root. Unfortunately I found that I must run ldconfig after each restart (i.e. shutdown -r now - doesn't apply to suspend).

I could probably add ldconfig to the init scripts, I am also looking into ading these path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile or in ~/.bash_profile

Anyway, now all my applications installed on /mnt/card find their libraries  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Port Requests Here:

« on: July 03, 2004, 03:57:05 pm »

Has anyone considered porting py-gnumeric to pxaX11?

We already have:
 - gnumeric
 - Python
 - PyQT (?)

It would be nice to be able to use the Python plugin/console to add custom functions to gnumeric spreadsheets.

Python functionality is already offered for x86 (in gnumeric-plugin-extras under Debian at least), but spreadsheets containing any python functions won't work properly on the Zaurus if I understand correctly

I'm hoping it wouldn't take much effort.

cheers.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Gnumeric again

« on: June 17, 2004, 09:28:34 pm »

I have noticed the same thing on my SL-C860, with a few exceptions. Very frustrating. Here is what I tried:

1. Installd gnumeric and all its dependencies on /mnt/cf
    - behaviour exactly as you describe
    - runs ok from cli, faults when launched from the desktop
2. reformatted /mnt/cf
3. installed gnumeric (with all of its dependencies) on /
    - gnumeric ran fine from both the console and desktop
4. removed gnumeric and reinstalled it on /mnt/cf
   - gnumeric still launches fine from both cli and desktop
5. removed bzip2 and reinstalled it on /mnt/cf
   - gnumeric faults when run from the desktop
   - runs fine from a command line
6. removed bzip2 and reinstalled on /
   - gnumeric runs fine again

It seems as though gnumeric expects one or more of its deendencies to be installed in /

I haven\'t tried this with each and every library gnumeric depends on (there are too many).

Hope it helps.
motorhead.