F10: Lots of "issues"... Evolution, Synaptic (touch pad), Plasma (folder view)...

[linux guy]

I installed F10 this afternoon as an upgrade from F8 using preupgrade.
That process went well.

I ran the F10 KDE Live all morning.   I didn't encounter any problems
with it, but I have lots of issues with F10 now that I have it
installed.

Here is a list of the problems I am having:

1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts every
time I start it.  HUGE PAIN.  BTW: Evolution uses a new db.  It took
longer to re index my emails than it did to install F10 !

2) No spell checking in Evolution.  Rather spell checking is marking
every word as mis spelled.  Every word I am typing in this post is
underlined in red.

3) The synaptic touch pad configuration tool I had installed in F8
doesn't work in F10.  I can't turn the touchpad off on my laptop and
every time I brush my sleeve over it, the cursor moves when I don't want
it to.

4) Folder view is crashing/freezing my computer and I am getting Plasma
errors.  Something is messed up. 

5) Neither Konqueror nor Firefox nor Opera will view a youtube video due
to complaints about needing to install the latest flash plugin.  And I
already have.  Firefox works once in a while. 

6) Ark won't extract a single file from an archive.

All this and I've only been using F10 for a couple hours.

[Armin]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 21:37 -0500, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > 1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts
> > > every
> > > time I start it.
>
>  I fixed this problem by
>
>  1) shut down evolution
>  2) rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/
>  3) pkill gnome-key
>  4) run evolution
>
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give kmail a try too if you are using KDE, it's quite nice!

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[Niels Weber]

Hi,

2008/11/27 Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts
> every
>  time I start it.  HUGE PAIN.  BTW: Evolution uses a new db.  It took
>  longer to re index my emails than it did to install F10 ! 
I had something like this. For me, the solution was a broken
"login.keyring" in ".gnome2/keyrings/". After deleting that, I was
asked only once and never again after that.

Perhaps that helps?

Niels

[linux guy]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 21:37 -0500, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>  > 1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts
>  > every
>  > time I start it. 
I fixed this problem by 

1) shut down evolution 
2) rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/
3) pkill gnome-key
4) run evolution

[linux guy]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 21:37 -0500, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>  > 1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts
>  > every
>  > time I start it.
>  
>  Are you using KDE? If so, do "pkill gnome-key" before running
>  Evolution.
>  On startup Evo will just ask - once - for your Gnome keyring password
>  (if different from your login password). It's a PITA but there it is. 

It really bugs me to see this bug, because it was also present during
the summer of 2007 and now its back.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 21:37 -0500, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>  1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts
>  every
>  time I start it. 
Are you using KDE? If so, do "pkill gnome-key" before running Evolution.
On startup Evo will just ask - once - for your Gnome keyring password
(if different from your login password). It's a PITA but there it is.

>  2) No spell checking in Evolution.  Rather spell checking is marking
>  every word as mis spelled.  Every word I am typing in this post is
>  underlined in red. 
See
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2008-November/msg00135.html
(BTW Evo 2.24.2 is available from updates-testing).

poc

[linux guy]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 08:56 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 21:37 -0500, Linuxguy123 wrote:
>  > 1) Evolution is asking for the passwords for all my mail accounts
>  > every
>  > time I start it.
>  
>  Are you using KDE? If so, do "pkill gnome-key" before running Evolution.
>  On startup Evo will just ask - once - for your Gnome keyring password
>  (if different from your login password). It's a PITA but there it is. 
I'll give this a try.   I'm OK with the keyring password.  Putting them
in one by one every time I start Evo is a pain... I have 6 email
accounts.

>  > 2) No spell checking in Evolution.  Rather spell checking is
> marking
>  > every word as mis spelled.  Every word I am typing in this post is
>  > underlined in red.
>  
>  See
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2008-November/msg00135.html
>  (BTW Evo 2.24.2 is available from updates-testing). 
Selecting a current language in the email fixed my problem.   Thanks for
the heads up.

[linux guy]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:50 +0530, Steve Repo wrote:
>  > 5) Neither Konqueror nor Firefox nor Opera will view a youtube
> video due
>  > to complaints about needing to install the latest flash plugin.  And I
>  > already have.  Firefox works once in a while.
>  > 
What architecture? 

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18
12:19:59 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

What version of flash is installed?

$ rpm -q flash-plugin
flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386


>  What does about:plugins on firefox say about flash?  
Firefox is now working.


>  Where is your plugin installed? 
Wherever the rpm puts it... 

$ rpm -ql flash-plugin
/usr/lib/flash-plugin
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/README
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup
/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36
/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36/readme.txt

Thanks.

[Steve Repo]

>  5) Neither Konqueror nor Firefox nor Opera will view a youtube video
> due
>  to complaints about needing to install the latest flash plugin.  And I
>  already have.  Firefox works once in a while.
>  
What architecture? What version of flash is installed?

What does about:plugins on firefox say about flash? Where is your
plugin installed?

Steve