Friday, July 24, 2009

Picasa 3 on Fedora 11 network problem

Was getting this message:

Login failed. Please check that you are connected to the internet ...

Log:
less /root/.google/picasa/3.0/drive_c/Documents and Settings/root/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Picasa2

Request made via proxy
Post data size: 109
[140187] id 3: Error: HttpOpenRequest failed (12157)
[140188] id 3: Failed to establish connection. will retry if possible
[140189] id 3: Stream summary:
POST request: https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientAuth (0)
Modified request headers:
Added header: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
Added header: Accept-Encoding: gzip

Solution:
Copied from here.

yum install wine
cp /usr/lib/wine/wininet.dll.so /opt/google/picasa/3.0/wine/lib/wine/wininet.dll.so