Install Plasma Resources???

[Lester Petrie]

I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up message 
box with the subject as the title.  The top line then says "Plasma 
requires an additional service for this operation".  Then there is an 
icon with "script engine" out to the side.  Finally, at the bottom, it 
says "The following service is required. Do you want to search for this 
now?", and a Continue button and a Cancel button.  When I click on the 
Continue, it comes back with "Failed to search for Plasma service" as 
the top line, and a big yellow triangle with "Could not find service in 
any configured software source"  There is a Close button that deletes 
the message box.  What is it looking for?  What do I do to make it quit 
coming up?  The only other strange thing that I observe that might 
possibly be connected is that when I try to start yumex, it fails with a 
message
YUM: The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file

/etc/shells has all the entries that are in it on another machine where 
yumex works.
-- 
Lester M Petrie

[Rex Dieter]

On 02/25/2013 07:10 PM, Lester M Petrie wrote:
>  I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up
> message
>  box with the subject as the title.  The top line then says "Plasma
>  requires an additional service for this operation".  Then there is an
>  icon with "script engine" out to the side 
We (Kevin Kofler in particular)implemented this feature to install 
plasma data and script engines on-demand via PackageKit,

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Plasma_PackageKit_Integration

So, apparently you had some plasma resource (applet, or whatever) that 
needed something not currently installed, but apparently it couldn't be 
found.

-- rex

[Lester Petrie]

On 02/25/2013 09:53 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  On 02/25/2013 07:10 PM, Lester M Petrie wrote:
> > I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up message
> > box with the subject as the title.  The top line then says "Plasma
> > requires an additional service for this operation".  Then there is an
> > icon with "script engine" out to the side
>
>  We (Kevin Kofler in particular)implemented this feature to install
>  plasma data and script engines on-demand via PackageKit,
>
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Plasma_PackageKit_Integration
>
>  So, apparently you had some plasma resource (applet, or whatever) that
>  needed something not currently installed, but apparently it couldn't be
>  found.
>
>  -- rex
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Any thoughts on how to determine what it is looking for, or what applet 
is missing something?  I am not aware of anything missing.

-- 
Lester M Petrie

[Kevin Kofler]

Lester M Petrie wrote:
>  I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up
> message
>  box with the subject as the title.  The top line then says "Plasma
>  requires an additional service for this operation".  Then there is an
>  icon with "script engine" out to the side. 
So this is very strange, normally it should be asking for some specific 
script engine, like "python script engine" or "ruby script engine".
Just 
asking for "script engine" looks broken to me, and it's no big surprise that

it isn't finding it. (The empty string is not a valid scripting language. 
;-) )

>  The only other strange thing that I observe that might possibly be
>  connected is that when I try to start yumex, it fails with a message
>  YUM: The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file 
This may or may not be related.

It's possible (but not necessarily the case) that both problems are symptoms 
of a more profound issue.

        Kevin Kofler

[Lester Petrie]

On 02/27/2013 08:53 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>  Lester M Petrie wrote:
> > I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up message
> > box with the subject as the title.  The top line then says "Plasma
> > requires an additional service for this operation".  Then there is an
> > icon with "script engine" out to the side.
>
>  So this is very strange, normally it should be asking for some specific
>  script engine, like "python script engine" or "ruby script engine".
> Just
>  asking for "script engine" looks broken to me, and it's no big surprise
> that
>  it isn't finding it. (The empty string is not a valid scripting language.
>  ;-) )
>
> > The only other strange thing that I observe that might possibly be
> > connected is that when I try to start yumex, it fails with a message
> > YUM: The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file
>
>  This may or may not be related.
>
>  It's possible (but not necessarily the case) that both problems are symptoms
>  of a more profound issue.
>
>           Kevin Kofler 
I haven't found a solution to the Plasma Resources problem yet, but the 
yumex problem was because sudo activates /usr/bin/bash as the shell, 
while /etc/shells had /bin/bash.  I added /usr/bin/bash and yumex works 
fine.  As far as I can tell, I am not missing any plasma resource 
(unless there is a resource for saving special window settings).

-- 
Lester M Petrie

(RESOLVED) Install Plasma Resources???

[Lester Petrie]

On 03/07/2013 08:32 PM, Lester M Petrie wrote:
>  On 02/27/2013 08:53 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Lester M Petrie wrote:
> >> I installed F18 last week, and now when I log in, I get a pop up message
> >> box with the subject as the title.  The top line then says "Plasma
> >> requires an additional service for this operation".  Then there is an
> >> icon with "script engine" out to the side.
> >
> > So this is very strange, normally it should be asking for some specific
> > script engine, like "python script engine" or "ruby script
> engine". Just
> > asking for "script engine" looks broken to me, and it's no big
> > surprise that
> > it isn't finding it. (The empty string is not a valid scripting language.
> > ;-) )
> >
> >> The only other strange thing that I observe that might possibly be
> >> connected is that when I try to start yumex, it fails with a message
> >> YUM: The value for the SHELL variable was not found the /etc/shells file
> >
> > This may or may not be related.
> >
> > It's possible (but not necessarily the case) that both problems are
> > symptoms
> > of a more profound issue.
> >
> >          Kevin Kofler
>
>  I haven't found a solution to the Plasma Resources problem yet, but the
>  yumex problem was because sudo activates /usr/bin/bash as the shell,
>  while /etc/shells had /bin/bash.  I added /usr/bin/bash and yumex works
>  fine.  As far as I can tell, I am not missing any plasma resource
>  (unless there is a resource for saving special window settings).
>  
I finally got tired enough of the Plasma Resources popping up every time 
I logged in that I went hunting for a ways to get rid of it.  I removed 
apper and the message went away. I tried re installing apper, and it 
came back.  Since I use yumex, I have removed apper permanently now. 
This also seems to have fixed a problem with yumex throwing an error pop 
up when it exits.

-- 
Lester M Petrie

(RESOLVED) Install Plasma Resources???

[Kevin Kofler]

Lester M Petrie wrote:
>  I finally got tired enough of the Plasma Resources popping up every
> time
>  I logged in that I went hunting for a ways to get rid of it.  I removed
>  apper and the message went away. I tried re installing apper, and it
>  came back.  Since I use yumex, I have removed apper permanently now.
>  This also seems to have fixed a problem with yumex throwing an error pop
>  up when it exits. 
Well yes, PackageKit integration will do nothing if there is no PackageKit 
UI installed. It's not a fix though! But if it's good enough for you and if 
nobody else is having the bug, I guess it's fine…

        Kevin Kofler