[SOLVED] Services, Samba, Firewall and some other Apps will not open.

[sdlor]

Hi All. ..Have already spent hours trying to figure this out. Basically, here's what I'm seeing:
(F16-PAE, 32 bit; GeForce GT 430)

 [root@Rock /]# system-config-services
Illegal instruction
[root@Rock /]# system-config-firewall
Illegal instruction
[root@Rock /]# system-config-samba
Illegal instruction
[root@Rock /]#

And cannot open them with the graphical prompts either. Have tried to open them in Gnome-shell, gnome-fallback mode and in MATE DE.. no joy.. (the mouse cursor spins for several seconds then stops)

These two do work, and the graphical applications open up:

[root@Rock /]# system-config-httpd
/usr/share/system-config-httpd/ApacheConf.py:66: GtkWarning: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
  xml = gtk.glade.XML (glade_file, domain=PROGNAME)

[root@Rock /]# system-config-firewall-tui
[root@Rock /]#

Can anybody point me in the right direction?.. (Have seen a lot of threads about dbus stuff; but they're all fairly old).. My thanks- in advance- to any replies..

Some more info:

[root@Rock /]# system-config-services
No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/system-config-services", line 34, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
    _init()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
    _gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
[root@Rock /]#

[root@Rock /]# system-config-samba
No protocol specified
system-config-samba requires an X-Window display.
[root@Rock /]#

[george_toolan]

You can't run it from a text console, because the gui needs a X server to connect to.

Please check your python configuration

ls -l `which system-config-services`
less `which system-config-services`

ls -l /usr/bin/python
ls -l /usr/bin/python2

To find out more about the illegal instruction:

strace system-config-services

[sdlor]

Re: Post # 2, ..Thank you so much for the quick reply.
The xserver is running. Shouldn't the command: "system-config-services" (normally) call the x-server and open up a gui session, just as in selecting "services" from a gui menu? (Which doesn't work either).

[root@Rock /]# ls -l `which system-config-services`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 May 19 08:43 /usr/sbin/system-config-services -> ../share/system-config-services/gui.py

"less 'which system-config-services'" displays "gui.py". (usr/share/system-config-services/gui.py) .. (Did not want to paste the whole program, but here is a part of it (showing line # 34)):

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# gui.py
# Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2011 Red Hat, Inc.

23 """ system-config-services: This module contains GUI functionality. """
24
25 import scservices.config as config
26 from scservices.core.systemd.manager import SystemDManager
27 from scservices.core.systemd.unit import SystemDService
28 from scservices.core.systemd.util import check_systemd_active
29
30 import os.path
31 import sys
32
33 import gobject
34 import gtk
35 import gtk.glade
36
37 import slip.dbus.polkit
38 import slip.gtk

[root@Rock /]# ls -l /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May  6 06:25 /usr/bin/python -> python2
[root@Rock /]# ls -l /usr/bin/python2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May  6 06:25 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7
[root@Rock /]#

The command: "strace system-config-services" opens up a very, very long display with lots of lines that say: "No such file or directory" and (literally) hundreds of other things.. Looks to me like I may have to give up on this one. Have been able to do Yum Upgrades for the last few Fedora versions (including this one; which did work fairly well, up until a couple of weeks ago). But- when F17 finally comes out- may have to do a fresh install.. Still, if anybody has any suggestions on how to fix this, I sure would appreciate any replies.

[sdlor]

Hi All,
Gonna mark this one as solved. Never did figure out how to fix it. But, did a DVD upgrade to Fedora 17; and all the problems went away..