Hi all,


I installed PAN newsreader with rpm on my Fedora 9 OS. After launching
it I get the following message

****************************************
pan

(pan:11019): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_value: assertion
`VALID_ITER (iter, list_store)' failed

(pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gtype.c:3368: type id `0' is invalid

(pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: can't peek value table for type
`<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
34434dd6-50e6-b7ef-276889e6-0116e18d is dumped
****************************


What does this mean? Is some package missing?


TIA,

Arty

Artnut wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I installed PAN newsreader with rpm on my Fedora 9 OS. After launching
> it I get the following message
>
> ****************************************
> pan
>
> (pan:11019): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_value: assertion
> `VALID_ITER (iter, list_store)' failed
>
> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gtype.c:3368: type id `0' is invalid
>
> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: can't peek value table for type
> `<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
> 34434dd6-50e6-b7ef-276889e6-0116e18d is dumped
> ****************************
>
>
> What does this mean? Is some package missing?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Arty


were is the rpm from?

was the installation in
"System → Administration → Add/Remove Software" ?
--
EOS
www.photo-memories.be
Running KDE 3.5.9 / openSUSE 11.0

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:28:33 +0530, Artnut wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I installed PAN newsreader with rpm on my Fedora 9 OS. After launching
> it I get the following message
>
> ****************************************
> pan
>
> (pan:11019): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_value: assertion
> `VALID_ITER (iter, list_store)' failed
>
> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gtype.c:3368: type id `0' is
> invalid
>
> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: can't peek value table for type
> `<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
> 34434dd6-50e6-b7ef-276889e6-0116e18d is dumped
> ****************************
>
>
> What does this mean? Is some package missing?

If you didn't install pan using F9's package manager, yum or whatever, I
say you have dependency issues, probably a library is missing or the
wrong version.

Install pan using yum or the 'Add/Remove Software' in the System/
Administration menu. It will take care of the dependencies and add pan
to the 'Internet' menu.

Here's a good source of info for setting up and configuring the Fedora
distros:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/


Stef

"EOS" <heelstraf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6Zpdk.116793$Kb.103437@newsfe29.ams2...
> Artnut wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I installed PAN newsreader with rpm on my Fedora 9 OS. After launching
>> it I get the following message
>>
>> ****************************************
>> pan
>>
>> (pan:11019): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_value: assertion
>> `VALID_ITER (iter, list_store)' failed
>>
>> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gtype.c:3368: type id `0' is
>> invalid
>>
>> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: can't peek value table for type
>> `<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
>> 34434dd6-50e6-b7ef-276889e6-0116e18d is dumped
>> ****************************
>>
>>
>> What does this mean? Is some package missing?
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Arty
>
>
> were is the rpm from?
>
> was the installation in
> "System ? Administration ? Add/Remove Software" ?

The rpm was downloaded from PAN's website. I checked many times over if I
was downloading the correct version and only after I was assured I
downloaded it.

Also, I wish to know that if I had downloaded the source files, would I have
faced the same or similar dependency error problem? Because I often get to
hear that RPM's aren't system specific whereas building from source is
always recommended.

Regards,

Arty

Artnut wrote:

> The rpm was downloaded from PAN's website. I checked many times over if I
> was downloading the correct version and only after I was assured I
> downloaded it.

so the wrong version, because on Pan's website
the only rpm for Fedora core is of fedora core 6 ;-)

Use the softwaretool of fedora core 9 to install Pan
do not download & install rpm's by hand,
the softwaretool will do that for you ;-)

>
> Also, I wish to know that if I had downloaded the source files, would I
> have faced the same or similar dependency error problem?

yes, it's possible
maby more errors.
compile from source is not so easy.

> Because I often
> get to hear that RPM's aren't system specific whereas building from source
> is always recommended.

Not complet true
if you use the software tool and add some repositories.
then you don't have problems.

If you compair RPM with DEB, then is DEB better to solve dependency problems
--
EOS
www.photo-memories.be
Running KDE 3.5.9 / openSUSE 11.0

"EOS" <heelstraf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:99Kdk.233918$Ek2.48271@newsfe17.ams2...
> Artnut wrote:
>
>> The rpm was downloaded from PAN's website. I checked many times over if I
>> was downloading the correct version and only after I was assured I
>> downloaded it.
>
> so the wrong version, because on Pan's website
> the only rpm for Fedora core is of fedora core 6 ;-)
>

Hi EOS,


Ok, here's it when you click on the right hand side "download" opn
pan.rebelbase.com, you go to pan.rebelbase.com/download. Just below the
header Source Code is Vendor-Made Packages and one can click CHECK on it.
After this a new page opens which is
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pan

In this if you scroll down, you can see
pan-0.132-2.fc8.i386.htmlA GNOME/GTK+ news reader for XFedora 9 for
i386pan-0.132-2.fc8.i386.rpm

Please note the discrepancy that its listed as fc8.i386 and yet it also
shows XFedora 9. Whatever that means!

Now this is where I got the PAN rpm from. Maybe its wrong but its surely
listed on this reputed site like rpmfind.net!



> Use the softwaretool of fedora core 9 to install Pan
> do not download & install rpm's by hand,
> the softwaretool will do that for you ;-)
>
>>

Yes, instead of messing up, I would love the comfort of getting it easily.
But my other post mentions that Add/Remove Software utility just shows busy
completing some unfinished tasks.
The Cancel button does NOT work. The only option is to reboot the pc. I
thought this was more in Windows.


>> Also, I wish to know that if I had downloaded the source files, would I
>> have faced the same or similar dependency error problem?
>
> yes, it's possible
> maby more errors.
> compile from source is not so easy.
>

May not be easy but it does have 3 easy steps of ./configure, make and make
install, and if one gets the right tarball and has all the requisite
dependency files, then I think it should be a cakewalk. Quite some time
back, I remember having screwed up installation of MPlayer but after some
trials and errors, it was up and running.



>> Because I often
>> get to hear that RPM's aren't system specific whereas building from
>> source
>> is always recommended.
>
> Not complet true
> if you use the software tool and add some repositories.
> then you don't have problems.
>

Brings me to square one that Add/Remove utility is not really working fine.

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:21:23 +0530, Artnut wrote:

> "EOS" <heelstraf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:99Kdk.233918$Ek2.48271@newsfe17.ams2...
>> Artnut wrote:
>>
>>> The rpm was downloaded from PAN's website. I checked many times over
>>> if I was downloading the correct version and only after I was assured
>>> I downloaded it.
>>
>> so the wrong version, because on Pan's website the only rpm for Fedora
>> core is of fedora core 6 ;-)
>>
>>
> Hi EOS,
>
>
> Ok, here's it when you click on the right hand side "download" opn
> pan.rebelbase.com, you go to pan.rebelbase.com/download. Just below the
> header Source Code is Vendor-Made Packages and one can click CHECK on
> it. After this a new page opens which is
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pan
>
> In this if you scroll down, you can see pan-0.132-2.fc8.i386.htmlA
> GNOME/GTK+ news reader for XFedora 9 for i386pan-0.132-2.fc8.i386.rpm
>
> Please note the discrepancy that its listed as fc8.i386 and yet it also
> shows XFedora 9. Whatever that means!

It simply means that the version compiled for Fedora 8 is also suitable
for Fedora 9, no recompile necessary. In fact on my Fedora 9 64-bit
system, it is the same one, except 64-bit, and I installed it using yum.

> Now this is where I got the PAN rpm from. Maybe its wrong but its surely
> listed on this reputed site like rpmfind.net!
>

It's not wrong.

>
>> Use the softwaretool of fedora core 9 to install Pan do not download &
>> install rpm's by hand, the softwaretool will do that for you ;-)
>>
>>
>>>
> Yes, instead of messing up, I would love the comfort of getting it
> easily. But my other post mentions that Add/Remove Software utility just
> shows busy completing some unfinished tasks.
> The Cancel button does NOT work. The only option is to reboot the pc. I
> thought this was more in Windows.

You're too impatient. How long did you wait before rebooting? 30
seconds? 4 or 5 minutes?

The first time you use Fedora's package management system, it takes
several minutes to set up everything. First, your hard drive is scanned
and a database of everything installed, their versions and dependencies
is built. Then, all the databases of all the enabled repositories are
read, compared with what's on your system, and the differences noted, so
the package manager knows what needs to be updated, deleted, etc.

On my 2.0 GHZ, single core (Athlon 64) 64-bit system with 4 GB RAM, all
this took about 5 minutes, IIRC, with a 12 to 24 megabit/sec cable
Broadband connection.

In stopping the process by rebooting and, thus, preventing the databases
from being built, every time you try to install something using yum or
Add/Remove, the system attempts to build the necessary databases, which
is time consuming, and you think something is wrong and stop it before
it's finished.

That's why I prefer the command line package manager yum: It shows you
exactly everything it's doing, so you know whether it's failed or locked
up or whatever. FWIW, I've never had a failure or lockup with yum.

In a shell, as root, type: yum info pan. It won't doing anything to
your system, except scan your on-disk database, if there is one, or
create one, if there's not. So, give it time. Several minutes. Here's
what it reports on my system:

Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.1 kB 00:00
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
updates | 2.3 kB 00:00
Installed Packages
Name : pan
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 1
Version : 0.132
Release : 2.fc8
Size : 2.9 M
Repo : installed
Summary : A GNOME/GTK+ news reader for X
URL : http://pan.rebelbase.com/
License : GPL
Description: Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasant to new and
: advanced users alike. It has all the standard newsreaders
[snipped rest of description]

(You probably won't have the livna or Adobe repositories. They aren't
installed by default.)

If this works, as root, type: yum install pan. Yum will ask before
installing anything. So don't worry about screwing up anything. What
happened?

Also, read and study this:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html


Stef
Fedora User since Core 3

> It simply means that the version compiled for Fedora 8 is also suitable
> for Fedora 9, no recompile necessary. In fact on my Fedora 9 64-bit
> system, it is the same one, except 64-bit, and I installed it using yum.
>
>> Now this is where I got the PAN rpm from. Maybe its wrong but its surely
>> listed on this reputed site like rpmfind.net!
>>
>
> It's not wrong.
>
>>
>>> Use the softwaretool of fedora core 9 to install Pan do not download &
>>> install rpm's by hand, the softwaretool will do that for you ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>> Yes, instead of messing up, I would love the comfort of getting it
>> easily. But my other post mentions that Add/Remove Software utility just
>> shows busy completing some unfinished tasks.
>> The Cancel button does NOT work. The only option is to reboot the pc. I
>> thought this was more in Windows.
>
> You're too impatient. How long did you wait before rebooting? 30
> seconds? 4 or 5 minutes?
>
> The first time you use Fedora's package management system, it takes
> several minutes to set up everything. First, your hard drive is scanned
> and a database of everything installed, their versions and dependencies
> is built. Then, all the databases of all the enabled repositories are
> read, compared with what's on your system, and the differences noted, so
> the package manager knows what needs to be updated, deleted, etc.
>
> On my 2.0 GHZ, single core (Athlon 64) 64-bit system with 4 GB RAM, all
> this took about 5 minutes, IIRC, with a 12 to 24 megabit/sec cable
> Broadband connection.
>
> In stopping the process by rebooting and, thus, preventing the databases
> from being built, every time you try to install something using yum or
> Add/Remove, the system attempts to build the necessary databases, which
> is time consuming, and you think something is wrong and stop it before
> it's finished.
>
> That's why I prefer the command line package manager yum: It shows you
> exactly everything it's doing, so you know whether it's failed or locked
> up or whatever. FWIW, I've never had a failure or lockup with yum.
>
> In a shell, as root, type: yum info pan. It won't doing anything to
> your system, except scan your on-disk database, if there is one, or
> create one, if there's not. So, give it time. Several minutes. Here's
> what it reports on my system:
>
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> livna | 2.1 kB 00:00
> fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
> adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
> updates | 2.3 kB 00:00
> Installed Packages
> Name : pan
> Arch : x86_64
> Epoch : 1
> Version : 0.132
> Release : 2.fc8
> Size : 2.9 M
> Repo : installed
> Summary : A GNOME/GTK+ news reader for X
> URL : http://pan.rebelbase.com/
> License : GPL
> Description: Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasant to new and
> : advanced users alike. It has all the standard newsreaders
> [snipped rest of description]
>
> (You probably won't have the livna or Adobe repositories. They aren't
> installed by default.)
>
> If this works, as root, type: yum install pan. Yum will ask before
> installing anything. So don't worry about screwing up anything. What
> happened?
>
> Also, read and study this:
>
> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html
>
>
> Stef
> Fedora User since Core 3


Hi Stefan,

Many thanks indeed as the site proved very very useful for reading at least.
Am gonna try the suggestions listed therein.

BTW, my patience was not just 5 or 10mins, it was well past an hour and
nothing much was happening, hence the reboot.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Arty

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:32:20 +0530, Artnut wrote:

>> It simply means that the version compiled for Fedora 8 is also suitable
>> for Fedora 9, no recompile necessary. In fact on my Fedora 9 64-bit
>> system, it is the same one, except 64-bit, and I installed it using
>> yum.
>>
>>> Now this is where I got the PAN rpm from. Maybe its wrong but its
>>> surely listed on this reputed site like rpmfind.net!
>>>
>>>
>> It's not wrong.
>>
>>
>>>> Use the softwaretool of fedora core 9 to install Pan do not download
>>>> & install rpm's by hand, the softwaretool will do that for you ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, instead of messing up, I would love the comfort of getting it
>>> easily. But my other post mentions that Add/Remove Software utility
>>> just shows busy completing some unfinished tasks. The Cancel button
>>> does NOT work. The only option is to reboot the pc. I thought this was
>>> more in Windows.
>>
>> You're too impatient. How long did you wait before rebooting? 30
>> seconds? 4 or 5 minutes?
>>
>> The first time you use Fedora's package management system, it takes
>> several minutes to set up everything. First, your hard drive is
>> scanned and a database of everything installed, their versions and
>> dependencies is built. Then, all the databases of all the enabled
>> repositories are read, compared with what's on your system, and the
>> differences noted, so the package manager knows what needs to be
>> updated, deleted, etc.
>>
>> On my 2.0 GHZ, single core (Athlon 64) 64-bit system with 4 GB RAM, all
>> this took about 5 minutes, IIRC, with a 12 to 24 megabit/sec cable
>> Broadband connection.
>>
>> In stopping the process by rebooting and, thus, preventing the
>> databases from being built, every time you try to install something
>> using yum or Add/Remove, the system attempts to build the necessary
>> databases, which is time consuming, and you think something is wrong
>> and stop it before it's finished.
>>
>> That's why I prefer the command line package manager yum: It shows you
>> exactly everything it's doing, so you know whether it's failed or
>> locked up or whatever. FWIW, I've never had a failure or lockup with
>> yum.
>>
>> In a shell, as root, type: yum info pan. It won't doing anything to
>> your system, except scan your on-disk database, if there is one, or
>> create one, if there's not. So, give it time. Several minutes.
>> Here's what it reports on my system:
>>
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> livna | 2.1 kB 00:00 fedora
>> | 2.4 kB 00:00
>> adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00 updates
>> | 2.3 kB 00:00 Installed
>> Packages
>> Name : pan
>> Arch : x86_64
>> Epoch : 1
>> Version : 0.132
>> Release : 2.fc8
>> Size : 2.9 M
>> Repo : installed
>> Summary : A GNOME/GTK+ news reader for X URL :
>> http://pan.rebelbase.com/ License : GPL
>> Description: Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasant to new
>> and
>> : advanced users alike. It has all the standard newsreaders
>> [snipped rest of description]
>>
>> (You probably won't have the livna or Adobe repositories. They aren't
>> installed by default.)
>>
>> If this works, as root, type: yum install pan. Yum will ask before
>> installing anything. So don't worry about screwing up anything. What
>> happened?
>>
>> Also, read and study this:
>>
>> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html
>>
>>
>> Stef
>> Fedora User since Core 3
>
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Many thanks indeed as the site proved very very useful for reading at
> least. Am gonna try the suggestions listed therein.
>
> BTW, my patience was not just 5 or 10mins, it was well past an hour and
> nothing much was happening, hence the reboot.

Okay. Shouldn't take that long.

Check to see if you have the repo config files in /etc/yum.repos.d
properly configured or if they are even there. You'll want to have the
mirrorlist enabled instead of just Fedora baseurl, so if one is too busy
or off line, the package manager after 30 secs or so will "timeout" and
switch to the next one. (I've been getting this--switching mirrors--a
lot lately when doing updates or big installs.)

Here's what my fedora.repo file looks like:

====================

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/
$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-
$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/
RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/
$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-
$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/
RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/
$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-
$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/
RPM-GPG-KEY

====================

You'll note that I don't have the debuginfo and source sections enabled.
I never mess with source unless I have no other choice or have special
requirements.

Also, check /etc/yum.conf to see if it is there and is set up properly.
Here's mine:

==============

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
installonly_limit=2

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

==============

And learn how to use yum instead of Add/Remove, since if something is
wrong, you be able to tell from viewing yum's progress output on the
command line. Also, to do any installs or update local yum DB's, you
have to be root. The "info" and "list" options don't require root
privileges.

man yum for the details.

Stef

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:20:41 +0000, Stefan Patric wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:28:33 +0530, Artnut wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I installed PAN newsreader with rpm on my Fedora 9 OS. After launching
>> it I get the following message
>>
>> ****************************************
>> pan
>>
>> (pan:11019): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_list_store_get_value: assertion
>> `VALID_ITER (iter, list_store)' failed
>>
>> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gtype.c:3368: type id `0' is
>> invalid
>>
>> (pan:11019): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: can't peek value table for type
>> `<invalid>' which is not currently referenced
>> 34434dd6-50e6-b7ef-276889e6-0116e18d is dumped
>> ****************************
>>
>>
>> What does this mean? Is some package missing?
>
> If you didn't install pan using F9's package manager, yum or whatever, I
> say you have dependency issues, probably a library is missing or the
> wrong version.
>
> Install pan using yum or the 'Add/Remove Software' in the System/
> Administration menu. It will take care of the dependencies and add pan
> to the 'Internet' menu.
>
> Here's a good source of info for setting up and configuring the Fedora
> distros:
>
> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/
>
>
> Stef

Hi Stef,

Finally my efforts had borne fruits. I'm posting this through Pan. Many
thanks for your help and others too who replied to me. Thanks.

Arty