Anyone else have these problems [bugs?]

[Richard Quint]

I've just tried installing Fedora Core 3 Test 2 on two machines. One had 
Fedora 2.

When I tried installing  FC3Test2 over FC2 grub lost the option of 
booting to Fedora, leaving just other (Win XP).  After doing a clean 
install of FC3T2 grub now gives both options---boot to Fedora or other.  
I found someone else had this problem by looking at the latest digest.

However, I haven't noticed anyone having the other problems that I have 
had with both installations.

1)  When you create launchers on or save a file to your [Gnome] desktop 
in an application (Maple 9.5) they don't  appear until you log out and 
then log in again.

2)  The settings in fstab for CDROMs and DVDROMS are no longer  
iso9660.  No problem changing them, but for a new user who tries to use 
a CD with separate Windows, Linux and Mac installation files they see 
the Mac files not the Linux files. (This happened with the installation 
disk for Maple 9.5.)

3)  There are problems with Java in Epiphany.  Although the default is 
to have Java turned on it  doesn't work and there is no indication where 
to put a plugin.

4)  The default jvm (gij) doesn't work but, when I used the JRE that 
comes with Maple or Sun's own JRE I was able to successfully  execute 
<path to java>/java -jar myfile.jar

5)  When changed my default browser to Firefox and created a symbolic 
link to the java plugin it showed as broken.  When I tried right 
clicking on the .so file and selected make link, nothing happened.

Anyone have any suggestions.

[Jef Spaleta]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:21:29 -0700, Richard Quint <rquint(a)vcccd.net&gt; wrote:
>  1)  When you create launchers on or save a file to your [Gnome]
> desktop
>  in an application (Maple 9.5) they don't  appear until you log out and
>  then log in again. 
Dont need to log out... you can open up a nautilus window for the
Desktop subdirectory
under your home directory and hit refresh and the new desktop entries
magically appear.
I would file this under gamin if its not already filed.  I see this on
my fc3t2 updated to rawhide as of this morning. So whatever is going
on its still applicable.

>  2)  The settings in fstab for CDROMs and DVDROMS are no longer
>  iso9660.  No problem changing them, but for a new user who tries to use
>  a CD with separate Windows, Linux and Mac installation files they see
>  the Mac files not the Linux files. (This happened with the installation
>  disk for Maple 9.5.) 
This is a hal bug/feature, so file it against hal if its not in
bugzilla already.

>  3)  There are problems with Java in Epiphany.  Although the default
> is
>  to have Java turned on it  doesn't work and there is no indication where
>  to put a plugin. 
you mean where to put plugins in your home directory?

>  
>  5)  When changed my default browser to Firefox and created a symbolic
>  link to the java plugin it showed as broken.  When I tried right
>  clicking on the .so file and selected make link, nothing happened. 
I have sun's jre working with firefox. If you have a broken symlink
that strongly suggest to me that you aren't creating the symlink
correctly.
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/:
libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
worksforme in firefox.

rpm -q jre
jre-1.5.0-rc


-jef

[Ricardo Veguilla]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:11 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>  On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:21:29 -0700, Richard Quint
> <rquint(a)vcccd.net&gt; wrote:
>  > 1)  When you create launchers on or save a file to your [Gnome] desktop
>  > in an application (Maple 9.5) they don't  appear until you log out and
>  > then log in again.
>  
>  Dont need to log out... you can open up a nautilus window for the
>  Desktop subdirectory
>  under your home directory and hit refresh and the new desktop entries
>  magically appear. 
You can also press Ctrl-R (the keyboard shortcut for Refresh) on the
desktop, just remember to click the desktop first to be sure its
focused. 

-- 
Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla(a)hpcf.upr.edu&gt;