Functioning of 64-bit Smart 1.3 in Mandriva 2010.1

[Anders F Björklund]

Steve Morris wrote:

> Hi,
>     I installed Mandriva 2010.1 from their dual arch cd to install the
> 64-bit version of Mandriva. After installation I then installed Smart
> 1.3 from their repositories, but I have been unable to get Smart to
> function, neither from this point nor after installing kde and gnome
> from their repositories. If I have Mandrivas package environment
> configured to use their mirrorlist default, starting smart produces a
> dialogue complaining of an invalid file format, if I switch Mandrivas
> package environment to use a specific mirror instead of the  
> mirrorlist I
> can get smart to start up but it will not do any channel updates nor
> display its progress bars (the dialogue that would normally show the
> progress bars is completely empty), the process that would normally
> display the progress bars appears to be trying to perform the required
> function (eg: update the list of packages from the synthesis files)  
> but
> nothing is actually performed.
> Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can look at to identify  
> what the
> problem is?

I think we will need some more information...

Smart from their repositories, is that "smart-1.3.1-0.r948.1mdv2010.1" ?
(if so, that is not the smart "trunk" - but from their "mandriva"  
branch)

http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/smart/ 
current/
https://code.launchpad.net/~proyvind/smart/mandriva

The dialogue complaining, what is the error output that it displays ?
Would it be similar to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/613973

The problem with progress not showing could be the glib-2.24 issue,
that also affects Fedora: https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/592503

Other than that, please open up new bug reports.

--anders