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Bug 115556 - system-config-soundcard cannot be started
Summary: system-config-soundcard cannot be started
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-soundcard
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
QA Contact:
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Depends On:
Blocks: FC2Blocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-13 15:28 UTC by Ralf Kleineisel
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-04-21 13:49:56 UTC
Type: ---
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replacement Python file (deleted)
2004-02-20 16:40 UTC, Brent Fox 		no flags Details
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Description Ralf Kleineisel 2004-02-13 15:28:33 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a)
Gecko/20031103

Description of problem:
When trying to start system-config-soundcard-1.2.2-1 I get the error
message:

# system-config-soundcard
system-config-soundcard requires a currently running X server.
Try running 'sndconfig' instead.

There is a X-Server running, I can call other X programs (e.g. xterm)
without problems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-soundcard-1.2.2-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a terminal window under X
2. Enter "system-config-soundcard" at the prompt
3.
    

Actual Results:  Error message

Expected Results:  Get a system-config-soundcard window

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-02-16 07:29:03 UTC 
Hm, also, sndconfig is dead. :)
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2004-02-20 16:40:31 UTC 
Created attachment 97858 [details]
replacement Python file

ralf: Try replacing your
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard.py file with this
attachment.  

Then run the program from a command line and attach any debug messages to this
bug report.
Comment 3 Ralf Kleineisel 2004-02-25 15:54:18 UTC 
I did so. The output is:

# system-config-soundcard -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard.py", line
38, in ?
    import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk
Comment 4 Brent Fox 2004-03-10 20:18:27 UTC 
system-config-soundcard has an RPM dependency on pygtk2.  Please run
'rpm -q pygtk2' and see if it is installed.
Comment 5 Nils Philippsen 2004-04-16 13:31:31 UTC 
Brent,

I tried this, unfortunately to no avail:

root@gibraltar:~> PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/system-config-soundcard
DISPLAY= python system-config-soundcard.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "system-config-soundcard.py", line 38, in ?
    import gtk
  File
"/usr/src/build/375621-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 43, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display
Comment 6 Nils Philippsen 2004-04-16 13:32:32 UTC 
NB: this is the system-config-soundcard.py you attached to the bug.
Comment 7 Brent Fox 2004-04-16 16:35:17 UTC 
Nils: can you try with system-config-soundcard-1.2.8-1 in Rawhide? 
You will have to install alsa-utils to satisfy the dependency, but it
should work ok on a non-alsa system.
Comment 8 Nils Philippsen 2004-04-16 17:37:22 UTC 
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't work here:

nils@gibraltar:~> rpm -qi system-config-soundcard
Name        : system-config-soundcard      Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.2.8                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Fri 16 Apr
2004 05:57:04 AM CEST
Install Date: Fri 16 Apr 2004 03:43:06 PM CEST      Build Host:
boris.devel.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM:
system-config-soundcard-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
Size        : 1348886                          License: GPL
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/
Summary     : A graphical interface for detecting and configuring
soundcards
Description :
system-config-soundcard is a graphical user interface that
detects and configures the soundcard(s) on the system.
nils@gibraltar:~> sudo su -
root@gibraltar:~> DISPLAY= system-config-soundcard
system-config-soundcard requires a currently running X server.
root@gibraltar:~> DISPLAY=
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard
system-config-soundcard requires a currently running X server.
root@gibraltar:~> DISPLAY= python
/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard.py
system-config-soundcard requires a currently running X server.
Comment 9 Brent Fox 2004-04-16 21:10:38 UTC 
Nils: are you running this from inside X?  If not, then this is the
desired behavior.  

If X is running, then there must be a deeper problem with the pygtk
module not getting loaded.
Comment 10 Nils Philippsen 2004-04-21 13:49:56 UTC 
Ahh, misread the original bug report for lack of function without X.
Under X and system-config-soundcard-1.2.8-1, everything works as
expected here.

I also guess that the original problem came from lack of pygtk2 --
closing the bug. Ralf, please reopen if the problem persists.
Comment 11 Eric Boardman 2005-09-13 02:40:29 UTC 
ok i got a new one
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard.py", line 38,
in ?
    import gtk
  File
"/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display

any help?
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