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Greetings all,
First of all...great job on
Gnomemeeting!
Now my problem:
The hardware consists of two Via C3-based systems
(EPIA M-10K motherboards). One has an Ezra core and the other is
Neahmiah. They are both running Fedora Core 1 Linux distros (2.4.22
kernel). Only one of the systems has a video capture card (bt848 Win TV
GO). The two systems are connected to each other via a 100Mbs ethernet LAN
via a hub. These are the only two systems on the LAN (no
contention).
We did a clean install of the Fedora distro just
last week. We also installed the GM 0.98 that was included in the
distro. That install was successful and seemed to function although
performance in terms of video frame rate and audio quality was less than I had
hoped for.
I downloaded the GM V1.0.1 files from the GM web
site Wednesday morning (both the Fedora RPM files and the source
files).
The existing GM was uninstalled using the RPM
command.
We initially had problems installing from the
RPMs. (It would be helpful if the speex package was mentioned in the
installation instructions as being a pre-requisite to openh323.) ...so we
compiled from the sources...some flies were missing from our base Fedora
installation, but we found them on the Fedora installation disks.
Ultimately the compilation and installation from the source files was successful
(without error messages at least).
By the time we were ready to get the new GM
installed on the second system, we had downloaded the missing speex RPM and so
this system was installed using the binary packages for Fedora. This was
also successful in the same sense as above.
We started GM on both systems and made the
connection OK. We were transmitting video one way and audio both ways (as
expected, remember only one system has a video source). Performance also
seemed better than the earlier version. So far so good...
Then the problem surfaced. We changed some
preferences in each instance of GM (enabling fast start up, changing the video
from small to large). We then shut down each instance of GM and restarted
them.
This time, whenever we attempted to establish a
connection, the instance of GM on the receiving end of the request would
crash. If the mode was "Available", the crash would occur when either the
"Accept" or "Reject" button was clicked on. If the mode was "Free for Chat
(Auto Answer), the crash would occur as soon as the connection request was
received. The crash was announced by an error window from Gnome: The
application Gnomemeeting (process xxxx) has crashed due to a fatal error
(Floating Point Exception).
This happens on both systems now. Whichever
one is on the receiving end of a call request. Rebooting the systems has
no effect.
I can provide the crash traceback listing from the
error report, if that would be helpful.
I did notice in the list traffic that it was
recommended the not only prior versions of GM be uninstalled, prior to
installing the latest versions, but also openh323 and pwlib. Prior to our
install, we did nothing explicit about removing (wiping out, cleaning) these
components. The same message also indicated that GM could become "crashy"
if prior versions of these components were present. If you think this
could be the source of the problem, would you please provide a step-by-step
procedure for preparing a system for installation of the new GM in the case
where there is an existing GM installation?
As a relative newbie (only working with Linux for
about a year) this would be very helpful for me (and, I am sure, others as
well).
Thanks again for a useful product and your
assistance.
Les LaZar
les (underbar) lazar (at) compuserve (dot)
com
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