firewall-config has many broken dependencies.

[Sam Varshavchik]

poma writes:

> On 20.12.2014 21:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > poma writes:
> >
> >> On 20.12.2014 17:41, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >>> I upgraded a headless F20 box to F21's server product.
> >>>
> >>> xorg-x11-xauth is installed, in order to make X forwarding work over the
> >> ssh
> >>> connection.
> >>>
> >>> After installing the firewall-config rpm manually, it's obvious that many
> >> of
> >>> its dependencies are missing.
> >>>
> >>> I was able to figure out that some of the default font packages that must
> >> be
> >>> installed.
> >>>
> >>> However, firewall-config still comes up with some of its display widgets
> >>> obviously not getting rendered correctly, and they do not respond to  
> mouse
> >>> clicks or the keyboard.
> >>>
> >>> I posted a screenshot comparison between a working firewall-config, and
> >>> broken one in bug 1176331.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone has any idea what dependency can result in such a broken display?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso
> >> - Minimal Install
> >>   yum install firewall-config xorg-x11-xauth urw-fonts
> >
> > Nope, that made no difference. firewall-config is still broken, the same  
> way.
> > It's not the fonts, some widget toolkit is missing. The widgets for the
> > individual buttons in the two ribbons are not being rendered, just their
> > labels.
>
> Be sure, what I wrote works.

Well, if you'd want to install from scratch, most likely. However, I'm more  
interested in fixing my existing server, rather than installing a new one.

You can pretty much give this same answer to every problem: something's not  
working right? Reformat the hard drive, and reinstall.

It's quite disappointing to see the "BSOD? Reformat the hard drive and  
reinstall Windows" mindset establishing some mind share in Linux.
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