after update, suddenly gnome-screenshot won't start

[Robert P. J. Day]

  did a massive "yum update" on my 64-bit ASUS laptop earlier today
and, suddenly, gnome-screenshot won't come up. if i now go to
"Activities" and left click ... nothing.

  if i run "gnome-screenshot" from the command line, i get a sudden
burst of white on the display, then nothing.

  at least one other graphical app (qoppa's studio pro PDF editor) is
also behaving weirdly. anyone else finding strange things happening in
their gnome desktop session?

rday

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[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 15:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    did a massive "yum update" on my 64-bit ASUS laptop
> earlier today
>  and, suddenly, gnome-screenshot won't come up. if i now go to
>  "Activities" and left click ... nothing.
>  
>    if i run "gnome-screenshot" from the command line, i get a sudden
>  burst of white on the display, then nothing.
>  
>    at least one other graphical app (qoppa's studio pro PDF editor) is
>  also behaving weirdly. anyone else finding strange things happening in
>  their gnome desktop session?
>   
gnome-screenshot does what its name says, it takes a screenshot (with a
flash effect, which is what you describe). If you want to tweak settings
before taking the screenshot, run it in interactive mode:

gnome-screenshot --interactive

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Matthias Clasen wrote:

>  On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 15:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  >   did a massive "yum update" on my 64-bit ASUS laptop earlier today
>  > and, suddenly, gnome-screenshot won't come up. if i now go to
>  > "Activities" and left click ... nothing.
>  >
>  >   if i run "gnome-screenshot" from the command line, i get a sudden
>  > burst of white on the display, then nothing.
>  >
>  >   at least one other graphical app (qoppa's studio pro PDF editor) is
>  > also behaving weirdly. anyone else finding strange things happening in
>  > their gnome desktop session?
>  >
>
>  gnome-screenshot does what its name says, it takes a screenshot (with a
>  flash effect, which is what you describe). If you want to tweak settings
>  before taking the screenshot, run it in interactive mode:
>
>  gnome-screenshot --interactive 
  ah, that's how it's been running all this time with my running it
from Activities, so obviously the yum update wiped out some settings.
is that something i should have expected? i've done numerous updates
before now with no problem.

rday

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[drago01]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 15:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   did a massive "yum update" on my 64-bit ASUS laptop earlier today
> > and, suddenly, gnome-screenshot won't come up. if i now go to
> > "Activities" and left click ... nothing.
> >
> >   if i run "gnome-screenshot" from the command line, i get a sudden
> > burst of white on the display, then nothing.
> >
> >   at least one other graphical app (qoppa's studio pro PDF editor) is
> > also behaving weirdly. anyone else finding strange things happening in
> > their gnome desktop session?
> >
>
>  gnome-screenshot does what its name says, it takes a screenshot (with a
>  flash effect, which is what you describe). If you want to tweak settings
>  before taking the screenshot, run it in interactive mode:
>
>  gnome-screenshot --interactive 
Yeah but the desktop file should run it in interactive mode (can't
check right now if it indeed does that).

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 22:16 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>  Yeah but the desktop file should run it in interactive mode
> (can't
>  check right now if it indeed does that). 
Yup. Robert, are you running Fedora 20, Fedora 21, or rawhide?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Michael Catanzaro wrote:

>  On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 22:16 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>  > Yeah but the desktop file should run it in interactive mode (can't
>  > check right now if it indeed does that).
>
>  Yup. Robert, are you running Fedora 20, Fedora 21, or rawhide? 
  rawhide.

rday

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[Michael Catanzaro]

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 19:30 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    rawhide. 
The desktop file is correct; it launches gnome-screenshot --interactive.
So the program itself is indeed broken.

I notice it works when running from a terminal. Odd.

[Ankur Sinha]

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 19:19 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>  The desktop file is correct; it launches gnome-screenshot
>  --interactive.
>  So the program itself is indeed broken. 
This bug also exists in F21. I filed a bug a couple of days ago:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735375

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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Ankur Sinha wrote:

>  On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 19:19 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>  > The desktop file is correct; it launches gnome-screenshot
>  > --interactive.
>  > So the program itself is indeed broken.
>
>  This bug also exists in F21. I filed a bug a couple of days ago:
>
>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735375 
  great, thanks for confirming this.

rday

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[Kalev Lember]

On 08/29/2014 02:36 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 19:19 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > The desktop file is correct; it launches gnome-screenshot
> > --interactive.
> > So the program itself is indeed broken.
>  
>  This bug also exists in F21. I filed a bug a couple of days ago:
>  
>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735375 
I've attached patches in the ticket to fix this.

Can you file this downstream in bugzilla.redhat.com too? We should be
able to propose this as an Alpha freeze exception and pull it in so that
it gets included on the live media.

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[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 21:04 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
>  Can you file this downstream in bugzilla.redhat.com too? We should
> be
>  able to propose this as an Alpha freeze exception and pull it in so
>  that
>  it gets included on the live media. 
Apologies Kalev, I didn't see this mail earlier. Thanks for filing the
downstream bug.
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[Kalev Lember]

On 09/05/2014 05:57 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 21:04 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> > Can you file this downstream in bugzilla.redhat.com too? We should be
> > able to propose this as an Alpha freeze exception and pull it in so
> > that
> > it gets included on the live media.
>  
>  Apologies Kalev, I didn't see this mail earlier. Thanks for filing the
>  downstream bug. 
No worries. I see you've already discovered the update, but for anyone
else reading, gnome-screenshot not starting should be fixed in:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-10210

Thanks,
Kalev