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Hey guys im using linux mint 6 which is like intrepid. I installed ipblock through the synaptic package manager (which took me a while to figure out, im a noob) and i see the program in the menu, when i click on it, it pops up in the panel for a split second and disappears, im trying my best to not boot into vista, ive found linux to be more accommodating :D.
do you guys have any idea of what is wrong? i know what im describing is vauge, but if theres a way for me to let you guys have a clearer picture just tell me what to do, thanks!.
-Soul

What happens if you open a terminal and type "/usr/sbin/ipblock gui" ?

hey I'm having the same problem with opensuse 11 and if I'm not running under the su command the ipblock gui will pop up an ask me for the root password an then nothing

here's the whole thread describing the problem... http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/ip-block-wont-launch-730514/#post3562284 hope someone is able to help

Could you post the content of /tmp/ipblockUI.log after starting ipblock through the menu.

Hi I'm the guy with the problem in Opensuse 11 and thats the thing I open the ipblockUI (if I try in the terminal it just tells me permission denied) there's no info in the log at all

also I ran build xml and this is what I got logging output to /var/tmp/build-root/.build.log...
Memory limit set to 343442KB
Using BUILD_ROOT=/var/tmp/build-root
Using BUILD_RPMS=/media/dvd/suse
Using BUILD_ARCH=i586:i486:i386


opensuse-vm started "build xml" at Fri Jun 5 14:42:27 EDT 2009.


xml is empty. This should not happen...

also could it be that I have to do something with the ipblockUI.jar file?

It's probably a bug related to the java virtual machine. It's not required to build or compile anything if you're using the opensuse repository descriped at http://iplist.sf.net/download.html .

What is the output of "sudo java -jar /usr/share/java/ipblockUI.jar" ? Nonetheless if the GUI doesn't seem to work you can still use ipblock from the command-line ("sudo ipblock -h").

alright here it is....

Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
(to execute a class)
or java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...]
(to execute a jar file)

where options include:
-d32 use a 32-bit data model if available

-d64 use a 64-bit data model if available
-client to select the "client" VM
-server to select the "server" VM
-hotspot is a synonym for the "client" VM [deprecated]
The default VM is client.

-cp <class search path of directories and zip/jar files>
-classpath <class search path of directories and zip/jar files>
A : separated list of directories, JAR archives,
and ZIP archives to search for class files.
-D<name>=<value>
set a system property
-verbose[:class|gc|jni]
enable verbose output
-version print product version and exit
-version:<value>
require the specified version to run
-showversion print product version and continue
-jre-restrict-search | -jre-no-restrict-search
include/exclude user private JREs in the version search
-? -help print this help message
-X print help on non-standard options
-ea[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
-enableassertions[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
enable assertions
-da[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
-disableassertions[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
disable assertions
-esa | -enablesystemassertions
enable system assertions
-dsa | -disablesystemassertions
disable system assertions
-agentlib:<libname>[=<options>]
load native agent library <libname>, e.g. -agentlib:hprof
see also, -agentlib:jdwp=help and -agentlib:hprof=help
-agentpath:<pathname>[=<options>]
load native agent library by full pathname
-javaagent:<jarpath>[=<options>]
load Java programming language agent, see java.lang.instrument
-splash:<imagepath>
show splash screen with specified image

and I can start the gui it's just really odd how I have to do it... I open the terminal and type /usr/sbin/ipblock gui and I get the gui's request to enter the root password I do and nothing now if I type su enter the root password THEN /usr/sbin/ipblock gui it starts so wtf?

I could reproduce this bug which is related to the jre. In order to start the GUI the following is required (workaround):

$> su
$> DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/sbin/ipblock gui

This seems to be opensuse specific. Other distros work fine.

oh yeah I wonder why suse has such problems with programs I had many problems with moblock and comical isn't even installable....you'd think with it being one of the major distros they would have worked this sort of thing out..

Try to change the jre to sun's VM version 1.6 with:

sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre
sudo update-alternatives --config java

Now, set the new install (sun-java6-jre) to provide java, by selecting:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

That is all.

Also, the GUI logfile /tmp/ipblockUI.log might contain some useful error messages.

Taken from http://iplist.sourceforge.net/faq.html#0x03

alright tried to do that and sudo aptitude command not found and also why is there nothing in the /tmp/ipblockUI.log?

also isn't the aptitude command only for debian based os's like ubuntu

and besides I checked the yast repo's I have sun's VM version 1.6 already installed

Both VMs cause this odd behavior in OpenSuse.

There's also the option of switching to Ubuntu which is the de facto standard linux distro on consumer desktops. OpenSuse and Fedora are community versions and don't get as much attention as the business versions Suse Enterprise Linux and Redhat Enterprise Linux. But that's just my opinion.

yeah I thought about that and downloaded ubuntu but as I don't like gnome downloaded kubuntu but I thought that both were set up very poorly didn't care for em at all