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Messages reported by applications and OperatingSystems?
This page tells you how to resolve problems in some applications if you receive strange/weird error messages or conditions.
You might also be interested in the FunnyApplicationErrorMessages wiki page.
See also CommonErrors and ErrorMessages (for POSIX/libc error conditions).
Sawfish/Sawfish-gnome
- If you do not get a drop-down menu when you click on a window's menu button, can't change the number of workspaces, and/or gnome-control-center says "the applet encountered an error" when you try to configure sawfish, it means that you have versions of sawfish and rep (and/or rep-gtk[-gnome??) that don't like each other. For example, you have sawfish from debian woody (stable) but a rep from debian testing or unstable, even though these packages don't have an official conflict. Other symptoms include lines like "No such file or directory, sawfish/client" from the command line or in your .xsession-errors file.
Evolution (and some other gnome programs)
Symptom: No text is printed when you print out a document. In evolution, you only get the grey box where the headers would be but no text. This is caused by gimp-print (the printing back-end) not being able to find the fonts used in the document. (The application gets its fonts from either the X(1) server or from the font server xfs(1)?).
- For me, this occurred when I installed Microsoft truetype fonts into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and configured X to look there. Unfortunately, gnome-font-install(1) doesn't look in that directory, you so need to manually update the font settings. Under Debian 3.0 (woody) I did this by (as root)
- pick up new share/fonts truetypes
gnome-font-install -r -t /usr/share/gnome/fonts/gnome-print-share.fontmap /usr/share/fonts
- update /etc/gnome/fonts
rm /etc/gnome/fonts/gnome-print.fontmap
gnome-font-install --dynamic
GNOME 2.x - various sound applications
GStreamer-ERROR **: No default scheduler name - do you have a registry ?
aborting...
- Gnome 2 has moved to using the gstreamer suite for audio processing, including recording and playback. I got the above error message when trying to use gnome-sound-recorder. What happened (possibly debian specific) was that gnome-media depends on libgstreamer but not all the required gstreamer packages got installed. The extra packages I installed were
- gstreamer-core
gstreamer-tools
gstreamer-oss (you might prefer gstreamer-alsa or gstreamer-arts)
gstreamer-runtime
- to get it not to crash, and some extra packages to actually get stuff working
- gstreamer-misc
gstreamer-plugin-libs
Note - this was for the gnome2.2 back port for Debian 3.0 Woody. Other versions/distributions probably have different dependencies/package names.
tar: Failed open to read on /dev/nrst0 <No such file or directory>
You're using a BSD-derived tar, but using GNU-tar options - it got confused and is trying to use the default tape drive device. See PortableProgramming? for tar option discussion.