Maple on Fedora - beware updates today - I was wrong - it is fine!

[Dave Feustel]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:58:09AM -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote:
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> Mike Cloaked wrote:
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> > Beware - after today's updates including Fedora 10 Update:
> > java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-11.b14.fc10  it appears that Maple 12 which was
> > running fine in F10 for me is now broken - I am not sure if this java
> > update is the culprit but some other applications are also not working any
> > more - eg Okular
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> > I now have some key applications no longer working  -  and not very happy!
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> It turned out that this failure was nothing to do with any updated packages
> today - but was due to changing the graphics card and monitor - which in
> turn caused .gconf and/or .gconfd to get messed up.  Moving these two
> directories to new names and restarting gnome gave a fully working
> application again.
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> Apologies for the report - and hope it did not cause any excessive worries.

It worried me, but I went ahead and ordered Maple 12 anyway.

"Damn the torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!"