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.
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