system-config-firewall died for no reason

nightmarcus · #1 16th December 2007, 10:28 AM

I just installed Fedora 8 like day before yesterday. Haven't made any major system changes, and all of a sudden it decides it's going to revert back to the default KDE theme and make all my fonts super huge and hide my fedora background, and now system-config-firewall is no longer working because it says the system-config-firewall_48 icon can't be found, but it's right there in the same place it used to be. It says the icon cannot be found in the theme. What happened?

nightmarcus · #2 16th December 2007, 10:29 AM

I just want the default Fedora 8 theme back and for my system-config-firewall to work again.

nightmarcus · #3 16th December 2007, 10:30 AM

My wireless card isn't being detected any more either, :-(

erikpkn · #4 16th December 2007, 01:58 PM

As for system-config-firewall see this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425796 and this post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=175551. As for your other problems: I would reinstall Fedora 8, since yours is a relatively new install. Good chance you unknowingly messed something up here or there. Then - after the new install - log everything you're doing, so that in case your problems reappear, you can try to figure out why.

Erik.

nightmarcus · #5 16th December 2007, 02:10 PM

Already ahead of ya,

. I made a script to automate the updates and things and it seems to be running just fine now, and I'll just make sure I remember everything I do in case it happens again.

***glennzo*** · #6 16th December 2007, 02:51 PM

Getting the same problem here. Same errors regarding the icon /system-config-firewall_48.png. It doesn't appear to be installed. There's been 2 updates of system-config-firewall in the last week,

Code:

[glenn@toshiba ~]$ cat /var/log/yum.log | grep system-config-firewall
Dec 08 11:04:49 Updated: system-config-firewall-tui - 1.0.11-1.fc8.noarch
Dec 08 11:04:52 Updated: system-config-firewall - 1.0.11-1.fc8.noarch
Dec 15 17:38:35 Updated: system-config-firewall-tui - 1.0.12-2.fc8.noarch
Dec 15 17:38:40 Updated: system-config-firewall - 1.0.12-2.fc8.noarch

I can only assume that one of these updates are to blame.

Edit: I have another system on which system-config-firewall works just fine. On that system the version of system-config-firewall is 1.0.11-1.fc8 so it must be the 1.0.12-2 update that is the culprit.

nightmarcus · #7 16th December 2007, 05:27 PM

Yeah, after updating mine it started doing the same thing again, but everything else is still working just fine, so I'll just deal until they fix it.

garbagedigger · #8 18th December 2007, 02:55 PM

Dude, I'm having the same problem with my gui firewall configuration utility. It was great for a long time and now suddenly it doesn't work and it keeps saying I'm missing png picture files. I'll post the errors when I get home. It must be an update problem like you guys said. At least I can use the shell based gui.

garbagedigger · #9 20th December 2007, 01:11 AM

I have the fix to this problem:

cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/system-config-firewall.png /usr/share/system-config-firewall/system-config-firewall_48.png

The problem is due to the fact that the picture is missing after the update or it gets renamed to not include "48" in it.

nightmarcus · #10 20th December 2007, 06:15 AM

Thanks a ton man, I've been really busy with work lately and haven't taken the time to fool around with it, I really appreciate you solving this problem.

Gentoo Bob · #11 20th December 2007, 03:39 PM

Why would a .png file mess up a program to run? I dont understand why the .png is so important.

garbagedigger · #12 20th December 2007, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gentoo Bob

Why would a .png file mess up a program to run? I dont understand why the .png is so important.

I'm not really sure actually. I didn't bother to open the picture up and see what it is. I might do that later now b/c I'm curious. I do think the picture is some icon or look for the gui and it requires it. I didn't want to get into looking at the programming code for system config firewall.

mattywix · #13 21st December 2007, 03:15 PM

Dare I say it but you could just edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables (then restart iptables) and not bother with system-config-firewall !

Gentoo Bob · #14 21st December 2007, 03:18 PM

yea you could do that mattywix but the point is, the menu option isnt working and sometimes its rather nice to use a GUI once in awhile. I love command line dont get me wrong. I just like everything on my system to work properly too.

garbagedigger · #15 21st December 2007, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattywix

Dare I say it but you could just edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables (then restart iptables) and not bother with system-config-firewall !

Yeah, I like command line in some cases but for the firewall, I would rather use the system-config GUI. I have used both methods though.