Issue with appbrowser when SliM graphical login manager is used

[u54749]

I'm using Tiny Core v2.2 rc3

When I use the SliM graphical login manager, login as tc and try to download or install an extension with the appbrowser, the download progress bars in appbrowser do not appear anymore.  Additionally the wma playback plugin for xmms crashes.  However all oder audio formats play correctly.

When I close X and subsequently re-login as tc (non-graphical login) the download progress bars and wma playback work again.

I suspect there is a common cause for the two problems.

Anybody has an idea?

[curaga]

Any messages in the console, from appbrowser or xmms?

[u54749]

This I get from appbrowser

~ $ appbrowser
cpufreq.tcel
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org (152.46.7.109:80)
Length: 10604
acpid.tce            100% |*******************************| 10604  --:--:-- ETA
acpid.tce: OK
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org (152.46.7.109:80)
Length: 66663
cpufreq-2.6.29.1-tin 100% |*******************************| 66663  --:--:-- ETA
cpufreq-2.6.29.1-tinycore.tcem: OK
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org (152.46.7.109:80)
Length: 66137
cpufreq.tcel         100% |*******************************| 66137  00:00:00 ETA
cpufreq.tcel: OK

Nothing that seems to point to a problem with the progress bars.  The download and install are working,  only the graphical download progress bars do not appear..

~ $ xmms w3222n.wma

Segmentation fault

You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit
http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report.

But as I said already:  if I relogon without SLiM the audio file plays correctly and the progress bars work

[curaga]

What happens if you try flwget manually?

flwget http://www.google.com test.html

[u54749]

Here is the output I get

~ $ flwget http://www.google.com test.html
sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to test.html
Unknown problem.  ~ $

when I try

~ $ flwget http://www.google.com /home/tc

the progress meter briefly flashes up and a file "index.html" is downloaded to my home directory

[u54749]

another try with other URL

~ $ flwget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/r
elease/tinycore_2.2.iso linux.iso
sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to linux.iso
Unknown problem.  ~ $

~ $ flwget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/r
elease/tinycore_2.2.iso /home/tc
Unknown problem.  ~ $

[curaga]

I'm thinking this has something to do with Slim doing a proper login, instead of the autologin at a regular boot. Mike or hats, flwget would be your area, care to investigate?

[MikeLockmoore]

I'd like to know if this problem still exists in the official 2.2 version.  u54749, can you update to full 2.2 and try again?  If you still see a problem, I'll try to reproduce and see how to fix it.  I've never used SliM before and have no idea on how the user's environment is different logging in that way compared to the base auto-login.

Updated note and questions: The flwget executable expects to see a URL and a path on the command-line:

  flwget http://www.google.com /tmp

So this:

  flwget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/tinycore_2.2.iso /home/tc

*Should* have worked for you.  Maybe try with /tmp?  Maybe you don't have permission to /home/tc when you tried it? Such as you were logged in as another user, not tc, when you tried this in SliM?


UPDATE:  I've upgraded to TC 2.2, added the SliM tce, rebooted, logged in as tc, and tried to use AppBrowser.  I was able to install a few things and saw the flwget at least sometimes.  I tried to execute flwget and the wget commands that flwget uses, and was able to download small files (like the *.md5.txt files), but for big ISO files, it would fail, either with a "500 Get" error message or a unknown host (if I remember correctly) message.  So I don't think flwget is completely broken by SliM, but wget does seem less reliable.  I'm not sure where to go with this now. 
  
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Mike L.