Elisa doesn't display characters and icons right

[olavjunior]

Elisa goes black and just shows randomly some icons and text. (see screenshots)

I've tried both the version following Intrepid and the svn 5.12.

For the svn I don't see anything, everythings black. Hiting enter in the main menu gives me this output:
self.body.connect("file-loaded", lambda x: self._layout())
exceptions.TypeError: <Image object (pgmimage150) at 0xb66ebe4>: unknown signal name: file-loaded I guess it's this error that's causing the bug.

Is this due to the libffi5 discussed in this thread? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=830140&highlight=elisa

[plun]

Well.. there are ongoing bugs about this and
elisa-plugins-ugly is broken both in Debians and Ubuntus repo.

Maybe a libiffi problem. I have seen "debates" but no answer.


From this ppa I manually downloaded some packages.
https://launchpad.net/~elisa-developers/+archive

Still problem with high CPU and composited environment.
Howto disable visualization ?


But Elisa works...:D

[olavjunior]

Well, it actually is unusable for me.. Have you gotten around the problem with the launchpad files? And if so, witch?

I don't know how to disable the visualization. Have been searching for an answer to that earlier

[plun]

Well.... this is within the "higher division" about trouble.

As you wrote you also installed the SVN version and its often causes
a mess with python site-packages.

My lesson is to stay away from SVN and Elisa...


One start can be to uninstall everything with purge

sudo apt-get remove --purge elisa*

Then a autoremove of left behind packages BUT !! you must know what you are doing !

Also uninstall svn version

If I then install elisa-plugins-ugly from ppa I can then install elisa from Intrepids repo.

You don't enable this Hardy ppa just download the deb file.

Or wait for a fix for Intrepids Elisa....


Another important issue is the f key for toggling window, much better to run Elisa in a smaller window.

[olavjunior]

That didn't solve it, sadly.. I purged elisa, and used apt-get autoremove, then reinstalled elisa from repos, and installed ugly from launchpad. Still I have the same problem as described above..

[plun]

Start Elisa from terminal, it probably "spits out" a lot.

Try to figure out important errors.

Old SVN site packages is one important thing to check.


For me it works except high CPU...

http://ubuntu-pics.de/thumb/4032/elisa_RHAak1.jpg (http://ubuntu-pics.de/bild/4032/elisa_RHAak1.jpg)

[olavjunior]

Well, I don't find any errors regarding to svn as far as I can tell. But here's a full terminal output from Elisa (not that much)

the last lines comes when I try to navigate, so I think that's the bug here

[plun]

Ok...

One more thing to try is to delete your ~.elisa folder (hidden > Ctrl-h).

Start again from terminal.

EDIT

You probably also have a site-package mess

WARNING:root:Cannot find theme file: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/elisa/plugins/poblesec/base/styles.conf
WARNING:root:Cannot find resource file: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/elisa/plugins/poblesec/base/resources.conf
WARNING:root:Cannot find theme configuration files
WARN MainThread pigment_frontend okt. 04 15:16:24 exception importing decorator elisa.plugins.favorites.controller:music_decorator :
failure <type 'exceptions.ImportError'> at elisa/plugins/favorites/controller.py:55: <module>(): No module named shoutcast.models (elisa/plugins/pigment/pigment_frontend.py:200)

[olavjunior]

Yea, I've already tried that one (removing .elisa)

But what do I do to fix the site-package mess?

[plun]

Yea, I've already tried that one (removing .elisa)

But what do I do to fix the site-package mess?

Viking trick...:D

sudo apt-get remove --purge elisa*

gksudo nautilus

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/


Delete all Elisa site packages

Install again...

Perhaps not in the noble art of Linux school....:D

[olavjunior]

Well, did it, but the site-packages didn't get recreated when installing elisa! Now I get this error:
junior@junior-laptop:~$ elisa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/elisa", line 222, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/elisa", line 199, in main
options = _parse_options(sys.argv)
File "/usr/bin/elisa", line 104, in _parse_options
from elisa.core.options import Options
ImportError: No module named elisa.core.options


Little ruff that viking trick;)

EDIT: Forget it, I used reinstall from Synaptic, and now the packages got reinstalled. But still, the same problem... :(

Do you have the file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/elisa/plugins/poblesec/base/resources.conf? I don't..

[plun]

Well....

Have you done uninstall from your svn folders ?

As I wrote SVN often causes a complete mess.

The "viking trick" then often works...:D

You can also take a look at Elisas forum..

http://elisa.fluendo.com/forums/

[olavjunior]

well, the svn is just in my home folder. Didn't think that could mess things up. But maybe I'll just have to try. Or wait.. :) I guess the Elisa team will release the newest version in Intrepid repos soon.

I know the Elisa forums, but they're so slow... But thanks for trying to help me plun, appreciated! You don't know anything about this by any chance? :p http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=937257

[plun]

Elisa....:KS

locate elisa

http://elisa.fluendo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=677


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I think your other issue is something with lack of detection.

File a bug against Xorg

I also cannot see what graphic driver you are running. (just a quick look at the other thread.)

[olavjunior]

ok, thanks again! i don't know my driver, but it's
* Graphics card: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
anyways, another thread...

[olavjunior]

I'm still having this issue with Elisa! I've purge removed all affected packages and reinstalled them all! Don't tell me I'm the only one with intrepid having this issue????