Re: Red carpet problem (debian woody)

["Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy Keitt SUNYSB Edu>]

I noticed a typo at the end of the Red Carpet press release.  The 
suggested deb path end in "/." instead of "./".

Tim

Ian Peters wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:45:45PM +0100, Johan Vervloet wrote:
>
> > I've installed red carpet 0.9 on my Debian woody system.  When I start
> > the program as root, I get this message :
> >
> > Red Carpet has encountered an error while trying to process your
> > request:
> >
> > Unable to access packaging subsystem:
> > Couldn't parse /var/lib/dpkg/status: The /var/lib/dpkg/status file is
> > malformed or contains errors
>
>
> This means there's an error either in your status file, or in the RC
> code which parses that file.  Try running 'apt-get -f install', and
> see if it attempts to fix anything.  If it doesn't, I'd love to get a
> bug report on this, preferably with a copy of your status file (if
> that's ok with you) to help me track down the error in my parser.  Bug
> reports are submitted at bugzilla.ximian.com.
>
>
> > When I try to open the Preferences dialog box, it crashes, and this
> > appears on the stderr :
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeDialog'
> >
> > GnomeUI-CRITICAL **: file gnome-dialog.c: line 801
> > (gnome_dialog_close_hides): assertion `dialog != NULL' failed.
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeDialog'
> >
> > GnomeUI-CRITICAL **: file gnome-dialog.c: line 382
> > (gnome_dialog_set_parent): assertion `dialog != NULL' failed.
> >
> > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1424 (gtk_widget_show):
> > assertion `widget != NULL' failed.
>
>
> Eeek.  Looks like the dialog isn't being created correctly by the
> glade, or something...  If you start it up as an ordinary user, can
> you go to the preferences dialog ok?
>
> BTW can you subscribe to the RC mailing list?
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/red-carpet
>
> That's the best place for this discussion to continue.


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Timothy H. Keitt
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