[SOLVED] Unable to launch power preferences or volume control.

[dd_wizard]

Have gnome-power-preferences and gnome-volume-control disappeared for anybody else? I see the .desktop files in the system and my home locations, but gnome displays error dialogues.

dd_wizard

[nimnull22]

When I start gnome-volume-control, I get: "Waiting for sound system to respond" and nothing more.

But sound mixer on XFCE works for my alsa.

And, also, I have 3 (three) xterm on gnome (I do not know why), non of them show normal font. Looks like compiz doesn't work good. For me, gnome still unusable.

[AdamW]

It looks like gnome-power-preferences disappeared between 2.30.1 and 2.31.1. I'm not entirely sure why. I'll ask Richard.

[dd_wizard]

Apparently gnome-volume-control disappeared from gnome-media recently, as well.

[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ yum whatprovides */gnome-volume-control   
gnome-media-debuginfo-2.31.5-2.fc14.x86_64 : Debug information for package gnome-media
Repo        : rawhide-debuginfo
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/src/debug/gnome-media-2.31.5/gnome-volume-control

That's pretty funny that the debuginfo is still around, but the binary isn't!

dd_wizard

---------- Post added at 04:15 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 03:38 PM CDT ----------

Adam, do you have any idea if this is a bug or an undocumented change? The gnome-media spec files from the koji source rpms:

Summary: GNOME media programs
Name: gnome-media
Version: 2.30.0
...
%files
%defattr(-, root, root)
%doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README
%{_bindir}/gnome-volume-control
%{_bindir}/gnome-volume-control-applet
%{_bindir}/gnome-audio-profiles-properties
%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop
%{_datadir}/applications/gnome-volume-control.desktop
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/gnome-volume-control*
%{_datadir}/gnome-media
%{_datadir}/sounds/gnome/

Summary: GNOME media programs
Name: gnome-media
Version: 2.31.5
...
%files
%defattr(-, root, root)
%doc AUTHORS COPYING NEWS README
%{_bindir}/gnome-volume-control-applet
%{_bindir}/gnome-audio-profiles-properties
%{_libdir}/control-center-1/panels/libsound.so
%{_sysconfdir}/xdg/autostart/gnome-volume-control-applet.desktop
%{_datadir}/applications/gnome-volume-control.desktop
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/apps/multimedia-volume-control.*
%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/*/status/audio-input-microphone*
%{_datadir}/gnome-media
%{_datadir}/sounds/gnome/

The .desktop file is in the datadir, but the executable in bindir is no longer there.

dd_wizard

[GoinEasy9]

On the devel list, it was written, that one should use "gnome-control-center power" because it's now a control panel widget.

[dd_wizard]

Interesting, but don't you think right clicking the icon and launching preferences should do the same thing?

I tried your suggestion, GE9, but this happened:

[gene@Mobile-PC ~]$ gnome-control-center power
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": libatk-bridge.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail-gnome": libgail-gnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

** (gnome-control-center:12899): WARNING **: Could not load icon 'gnome-volume-control': Icon 'gnome-volume-control' not present in theme

** (gnome-control-center:12899): WARNING **: Could not find settings panel "power"

** (gnome-control-center:12899): WARNING **: Could not load setting panel "power": Unknown error

dd_wizard

[GoinEasy9]

Well, I wasn't home to try it, just saw it on the mailing list.

or use the icon in the menus (another part of post)

.
Hmmm...isn't that how you found out about this in the first place?

[AdamW]

dd_wizard: I'd file a bug on the remaining problems (right click and .desktop file) against control-center, if I were you. Thanks!

[GoinEasy9]

I just filed against control-center also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617025
I'll add to dd_wizard's filing. Even though bugzilla seems to be up, I can no longer file though abrt, there is a libcurl error. I checked my bugzilla plugin and nothing has changed, I don't know if the server outage has anything to do with it.

[dd_wizard]

I filed it against gnome-media the other day, but I can change the component. I see that your bug is supposed to be fixed, GE9. Maybe that'll fix mine too.

dd_wizard

[GoinEasy9]

New gnome-media in koji did fix my bug, but, gnome-shell is still just unstable to use with nouveau. AWN had a hard lockup. Add/Remove software wound up erasing all fonts from the desktop, leaving me with wallpaper and blank panels. <sigh>

[dd_wizard]

For some reason, I had to delete gnome-volume-control.desktop and gnome-power-preferences.desktop to fix this.

dd_wizard

[GoinEasy9]

Luckily I didn't delete the 2 desktop files, I just renamed them. When I did that I lost all access to sound config through menu or control center. I can still configure sound & power through the menu or through control center, so I'll just leave the icon alone till they fix it. gnome-appearance-properties is also not functioning, but that doesn't have a corresponding .desktop file.
My desktop never had a power icon, and the sound icon turned into a terminal screen icon that had right click functionality that allows me to bring up sound preferences. I never got the error dialogs you encountered.
Oh well, till the next update.

[dd_wizard]

Hmm, those two deleted files were from my home directory. However, I was mistaken about gnome-power-preferences. Right clicking the gpm icon and selecting preferences is still broken. I'm thinking that will take a bug to get it fixed. And no matter what I do, I have the same icon problem you have for the volume control applet, GE9.

dd_wizard

[dd_wizard]

It looks like the gpm problem will be fixed with the next upstream release update, see Bug 619231.

dd_wizard