Re: problems with /usr/sbin/neat, etc.

[Tom Snell <gracchus inficad com>]

Alexander Volovics wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today I was trying to configure dialup networking using the
> "Internet Configuration Wizard" from the System entry in the
> Gnome Main Menu. (/usr/bin/internet-druid).
>
> This was not a succes. I couldn't get it working.
> However that is not a problem because I don't need it. 
> I am on cable. I was just trying to configure it to show how
> it works for a Linux demonstration I am giving on Monday.
>
> I did a lot of fooling around with wvdial and minicom to see
> what was happening.
>
> Those were the only things I did before I tried to start up
> Network Configuration to have a look. (/usr/bin/neat).
>
> neat wouldn't start up anymore! The window appears shortly
> and then immediately disappears again. It makes no difference
> whether started from the command line or the menu.
>
> When started from the command line the following message appears:
> "IndexError: list assignment index out of range".
>
> I immediately tried 'internet-druid', 'up2date' and 'up2date-config'.
> Exactly the same. Neither would start up anymore.
> THe window appears and immediately disappears.
>
> Al this is on my laptop with enigma including all the updates.
>
> This problem is reminiscent of what happened in the second RH 7.2
> beta with a buggy pam update. Exactly the same symptoms.
>
> Now too I had just installed the recent pam (pam-0.75-19) update.
> However now pam is not the problem:
>
> 1) I have the same configuration on my desktop machine (enigma +
>    the most recent updates, including pam-0.75-19) and I have no
>    problems there whatever with up2date, up2date-config or neat.
>    Everything works perfectly.
>    (I have never run pppd on the desktop machine because I have no
>     modem on that machine).
>
> 2) I reinstalled the previous pam (pam-0.75-16) and even the pam
>    from the cd on my laptop. It made no difference. 
>    up2date, up2date-config, neat and internet-druid remained broken.
>
> I checked everything I could think of that might be relevant but could
> find no strange entries anywhere.
>
> I would appreciate it very much if somebody could give me a hint
> what the problem is and how it could be resolved. I need to get this
> working again before monday.  
>
> Alexander



Alex,

Same thing happened here, I think when deleting all the Ximian Gnome 
files and replacing them with the RH equivalents (due to the various 
problems with Ximian...this was an upgrade from a 7.1 system, of 
course).  I just in the last couple weeks upgraded to the newest Gnome 
rpms, and all is well again.  I recall it may have been the 'pygtk', 
'pygnome' and 'oaf' and 'bonobo' rpms (plus Python, of course) that 
needed to be reinstalled to get the RH utilities working again, but on 
this last upgrade I upgraded the entire Gnome 'distro'.

Try running /usr/sbin/neat from a command line and check the output...it 
  should give you a clue as to what's missing or in need of an upgrade....

Tom




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