firewall-config has many broken dependencies.

[poma]

On 20.12.2014 21:53, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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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