Bug 24960

Summary:	mgaonline in taskbar spawns false 'no media configured' popups
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tony Blackwell <tablackwell>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mgaonline	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	urpmi.cfg with some enabled media, with which the bug occurs output of ls -l /var/lib/urpmi

Description Tony Blackwell 2019-06-15 22:00:05 CEST

Description of problem:  Package media editor in taskbar is a questionmark on a red background, and repeated grey popup windows say Warning: no medium found, You must add...
This is untrue.  Media have beeen added and are normally usable.

Popup is very confusing for new user, and popups repeat at sometimes frequent intervals.

We've discussed this in qa.  I've tried the suggestion there to use other than gdm display manager (which led to just-filed but 24959: Xorg display manager doesn't allow login!)  Using kacage media editor from a different display manager doesn't prevent the popups continuing to appear when back using gdm.

The appearance of package media editor in the taskbar is flakey: it can disappear for a while, but is back with its white questionmark on red background as I type this.


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Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2019-06-16 13:36:28 CEST

Created attachment 11099 [details]
urpmi.cfg with some enabled media, with which the bug occurs

I see this, too, but don't think gdm causes it. I use sddm.

Maybe mgaonline has a problem talking to urpmi?

CC: (none) => marja11

Marja Van Waes 2019-06-16 13:37:43 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
Summary: Mageia Package Media Editor spawns false 'no media configured' popups => mgaonline in taskbar spawns false 'no media configured' popups
Source RPM: (none) => mgaonline

Comment 2 Martin Whitaker 2019-06-16 13:57:24 CEST

1. Please show the output of

  ls -l /var/lib/urpmi

and

  cat /etc/security/msec/security.conf

2. When/how did you add the media (e.g. at end of install, from MCC started from desktop menu or shortcut, from command line)

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 Tony Blackwell 2019-06-21 13:35:08 CEST

Created attachment 11120 [details]
output of ls -l /var/lib/urpmi

see attached 'urpmifiles' for output of ls -l /var/lib/urpmi

Comment 4 Tony Blackwell 2019-06-21 13:37:11 CEST

$ cat /etc/security/msec/security.conf
BASE_LEVEL=standard

media were added after reboot following initial install, from MCC started from desktop toolbar (xfce)

Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2019-06-21 20:38:40 CEST

And were you starting Xfce from  GDM when you added the media?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 6 Tony Blackwell 2019-06-21 23:16:41 CEST

Yes, although had done classic install and selected the full range of desktops to install, I'd not actually used any of these - only xfce

Comment 7 Martin Whitaker 2019-06-22 00:44:34 CEST

OK, this is definitely a duplicate of bug 24636. You should be able to fix your existing system by going into "Configure media sources..." in MCC, removing the media, and then re-adding them (without leaving "Configure media sources...").

@Marja, check the file permissions in /var/lib/urpmi. If the files aren't world-readable, you'll see the same symptoms, even if the cause is different. One known cause is setting the msec security level to high (which I think is bug 9386).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24636 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)