Bug#284328: gnome-applets: acme: complains about non-existant
/dev/pmu on PowerPC
Martin-Ăric Racine
"Martin-Ăric Racine" <q-funk@iki.fi>, 284328@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:06:35 +0200
Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.8.1.1-4
Severity: normal
More of an annoyance than anything else, but still needs to be fixed:
ACME insists upon finding a /dev/pmu whose ownership and permissions match the user currently running the session.
1) This is not practical, as it would require constantly changing the ownership and permissions of /dev/pmu at every
gnome-session start.
2) On PowerPC subarches that don't even offer any /dev/pmu, chaning the permissions would not fix anything; what
needs to be done is for ACME to be smart enough to either recognize the subarch as not being PMU-enabled, or to
ignore the error, instead of systematically annoying the user about a missing device he cannot magically graft to the
motherboard.
This should probably be reported to upstream as well.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-imac
Locale: LANG=fi_FI@euro, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii gnome-applets-data 2.8.1.1-4 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel
ii gnome-panel 2.8.1-2 Launcher and docking facility for
ii gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstrea 0.8.6-1 ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.8-artsd [gstre 0.8.5-1 aRtsd plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.8-esd [gstream 0.8.6-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin fo
ii gstreamer0.8-jack [gstrea 0.8.5-1 JACK plugin for GStreamer
ii gstreamer0.8-oss [gstream 0.8.6-1 OSS plugin for GStreamer
ii libapm1 3.2.2-2 Library for interacting with APM d
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-3 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgail-common 1.8.0-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail17 1.8.0-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.7-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-5 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-6 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 0.8.5-1 Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii libgstreamer0.8-0 0.8.7-1 Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtop2-2 2.6.0-4 Libraries for gtop system monitori
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.8.1-2 Library for GNOME 2 Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxklavier8 1.03-1 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
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