poma writes:
On 20.12.2014 21:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> poma writes:
>
>> On 20.12.2014 17:41, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> I upgraded a headless F20 box to F21's server product.
>>>
>>> xorg-x11-xauth is installed, in order to make X forwarding work over the
>> ssh
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> After installing the firewall-config rpm manually, it's obvious that
many
>> of
>>> its dependencies are missing.
>>>
>>> I was able to figure out that some of the default font packages that must
>> be
>>> installed.
>>>
>>> However, firewall-config still comes up with some of its display widgets
>>> obviously not getting rendered correctly, and they do not respond to
mouse
>>> clicks or the keyboard.
>>>
>>> I posted a screenshot comparison between a working firewall-config, and
>>> broken one in bug 1176331.
>>>
>>> Anyone has any idea what dependency can result in such a broken display?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-21.iso
>> - Minimal Install
>> yum install firewall-config xorg-x11-xauth urw-fonts
>
> Nope, that made no difference. firewall-config is still broken, the same
way.
> It's not the fonts, some widget toolkit is missing. The widgets for the
> individual buttons in the two ribbons are not being rendered, just their
> labels.
Be sure, what I wrote works.
Well, if you'd want to install from scratch, most likely. However, I'm more
interested in fixing my existing server, rather than installing a new one.
You can pretty much give this same answer to every problem: something's not
working right? Reformat the hard drive, and reinstall.
It's quite disappointing to see the "BSOD? Reformat the hard drive and
reinstall Windows" mindset establishing some mind share in Linux.