mageia 4 problems with enlightenment wm

[wickededgar]

Hello,

I've been using Mageia 3 for a while and I really love it. One of the Reasons for that is that in Mageia 3 I can choose e17 as desktop in the installer although I have to install it together with xfce and other WM's, but it works and I'm happy. Two weeks ago Mageia 4 came out and I decided to make a new install. When I took a first look at the new Installer I was happily surprised to see it is now possible to choose e17 seperately as the Desktop(without other WM's). This led me to the conclusion, that the support of enlightenment in Mageia is continuing, of course. When I installed it, I had to learn that I can't start Mageia control centre or urpmi. Is there any way to repair that ? By the way, I could not find anyone in the forum mentioning that Problem or anything about e17 in general. I hope I'm not the only e17-user in the Mageia World. If somebody knows how to fix that issue I'd be grateful.

[doktor5000]

You're not the only e17 user around here, but the first one who has asked about this particular problem.
Please check if there's a polkit agent running: ps -ef | grep polkit and post the output here.
You may need to install one, e.g. mate-polkit

Also please post the output in a terminal you get when you try to run either urpmi or drakconf.

[viking60]

And this goes for Openbox too. And I strongly suspect that the drakconf behavior via VNC is closely related.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6893

If ran in a terminal it will prompt for the password and fire:

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[viking@localhost ~]$ drakconf
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.mageia.drakconf.pkexec.run ===
Authentication is required to run Mageia Control Center GUI
Authenticating as: root
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
"/usr/sbin/drakmenustyle" is not executable [Menus] at /usr/libexec/drakconf line 831.
"/usr/sbin/drakbackup" is not executable [Backups] at /usr/libexec/drakconf line 831.
"/usr/sbin/tomoyo-gui" is not executable [Tomoyo Policy] at /usr/libexec/drakconf line 831.
java version "1.7.0_45"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (mageia-2.4.4.2.mga4-x86_64 u45-b15)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode)
[viking@localhost ~]$


I have installed gksu.

[doktor5000]

Please don't crosspost and mix up things. He said he can't even run urpmi, so might also be a totally different issue.

[viking60]

Well if you are right then this is not a cross post - but a different thing.?
Urpmi does not run from normal terminal in Openbox either (I am not sure if it is supposed to though).

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[viking@localhost ~]$ urpmi
bash: urpmi: command not found


So far we have established that MCC does not fire in E17 nor Openbox (and urpmi I don't know). In my mind there seems to be a common factor.
(I could be wrong about the VNC behavior though)
I'll stick to that other thread though to avoid confusion -sorry (Installing mate-polkit fixed it).

[wickededgar]

Hello,

sorry for the delay, the System did not boot so I burned the MGA4-ISO again and reinstalled, this time with a desktop selection similar to my previous MGA3-install(xfce+e17). Xfce is working perfectly, e17 can't start drakconf or drakrpm from desktop because it is looking for it in /usr/bin, besides that it runs well. The Programs are there now, e17 is just using the wrong path. I don't know what went wrong with that first install but I apologise for the Irritation I eventually caused by posting to quick from a not properly installed system that actually only ran for an hour.Sorry,guys. The remaining Issue with e17 is missing modules (engage, cpu, places) but I guess this has to do with the version change in enlightenment itself, or is anyone out there using those modules in e17.5? I'd love to get them back,you know.
Thanks

[doktor5000]

Well if you are right then this is not a cross post - but a different thing.?
Urpmi does not run from normal terminal in Openbox either (I am not sure if it is supposed to though).

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[viking@localhost ~]$ urpmi
bash: urpmi: command not found


So far we have established that MCC does not fire in E17 nor Openbox (and urpmi I don't know). In my mind there seems to be a common factor.
(I could be wrong about the VNC behavior though)
I'll stick to that other thread though to avoid confusion -sorry (Installing mate-polkit fixed it).

You have established that - your issue is fixed by starting polkit agent.
The VNC issue is totally different as it's about X forwarding, and urpmi is totally unrelated to polkit in any way and has always behaved like that, like wickededgar mentioned - it's not in the $PATH of your user, as with anything else in /sbin (which is now actually /usr/sbin). But you can still call urpmi via /usr/sbin/urpmi, like for most other programs in /sbin - as those usually don't require root permissions to execute, that has always been the case. Maybe not totally logical since ages, but whatever.

So again - please don't crosspost, or mix up/confuse things.

[doktor5000]

The remaining Issue with e17 is missing modules (engage, cpu, places) but I guess this has to do with the version change in enlightenment itself, or is anyone out there using those modules in e17.5? I'd love to get them back,you know.

IIRC the e17_modules package requires a rebuild, which did unfortunately not make it into Mageia 4 final due to the release freeze and packagers being super-busy (or absent :/ )

Does this sound similar, can you reproduce: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12610 ?

[viking60]

So again - please don't crosspost, or mix up/confuse things.

OK I'll be good. (Nirvana here I come - peace man. )

[wickededgar]

Aha, thank you very much , doctor 5000. I'll try that temporary Solution described in the link.
Thanx.