How to get rid of erraneous "pyhton gtk missing" and other errors?!

[Christoph Thiel]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Alex wrote:

> I've searched the net, but I haven't yet found a solution to this 
> problem (only other people who have the same problem):
> 
> I'm using openSUSE Factory, and from one day to another my smart --gui 
> doesn't start anymore, it simply shows the message:
> 
> error: System has no support for gtk python interface
> 
> Which is wrong, as I have installed:
> smart-0.42-5.guru.suse101 at x86_64
> python-gtk-2.8.2-21 at x86_64
> gtk2-2.8.10-50 at x86_64
> python-cairo-1.0.2-14 at x86_64
> python-curl-7.15.4.2-3.1 at x86_64
> ...
> 
> These are the current versions from openSUSE Factory and the Guru RPMs, 
> I also tried downgrading to other versions, but to no avail. I also 
> completely erased /var/lib/smart.
> 
> The last entries of a "strace smart --gui" show quite a lot errors when 
> trying to open python-cairo stuff.

Please attach the output of "smart channel --show". Are you using the 
jarpack GNOME/GTK packages?

Please also attach the output of 

  python -c 'import gtk'


> A few days later smart suddenly showed the next erraneous behaviour (may 
> be completely unrelated): When doing an "update", smart (the shell, 
> obviously) doesn't recognize new packages in the channels anymore, 
> though they are definitely on the servers. This goes even on my local 
> package directory.
> 
> Instead I get the following error for most of my channels:
> 
> Fetching information for 'Guru: Additional packages for SUSE 10.1'...
> -> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/media.1/media
> media                               
> ############################################### [ 24%]
> -> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/content
> content                             
> ############################################### [ 28%]
> -> 
> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/suse/setup/descr/packages
> packages                            
> ############################################### [ 32%]
> error: Invalid package file format. Invalid header found.
> 
> As I said before, I already tried reinstalling and completely deleting 
> the smart stuff, but I can't get it to work anymore.

This issue seems totally unrelated to the gtk problem.


Regards
	Christoph