What is the problem - and with whom?

[Werner Flamme]

Basil Chupin   [20.03.2008 09:06]:

Hi Basil,

> I've been using smart now since it was available for use in openSUSE.
> 
> At the moment I am using opeSUSE v10.3 (with all of its upgrades/updates 
> as of today).

Same with me, 400+ repos at home managed by smart.

> I am also using both openSUSE's zypper and smart to upgrade the OS.

Same with me, plus apt :-)

> Everything was working just fine until a couple of days ago when 
> openSUSE's zypper did some upgrades - and it so happens that I saw that 
> python was one of the files being upgraded.
> 
> Since this upgrade, smart does not work.
> 
> While smart-updater goes away and checks for new upgrades and comes back 
> with the information that there are new upgrades available, trying to 
> download these new upgrades results with -- zilch.
> 
> Running smart itself produces nothing.
> 
> Running smart from a command line with, /usr/bin/smart --gui produces 
> the error message:
> 
> system has no support for gtk python interface
> 
> But python is installed (and it was upgraded as I mentioned above).
> 
> What do I need to do to get smart working again?

same thing with me, except that I do not use smart-updater. Smart
refuses to start the GUI with the same text for me.

I solved the problem by selecting the entry in the KDE menu (System ->
Configuration -> Smart) as normal user. It asks for the root password
and then smart runs fine. The command hidden behind this menu entry is
"/usr/bin/smart --gui" - exactly what I use to invoke it from a terminal
window as root. However, it runs when called from the menu...

I thought it was some updated part of X that was causing the errors, I
did not notice that python was updated. However, I have it running again :-)

HTH
Werner
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