Bug#284740: gnomemeeting: useless error message dialog

Tim Connors Tim Connors <tconnors+reportbug@astro.swin.edu.au>, 284740@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:22:24 +1100


Package: gnomemeeting
Version: 1.0.2-5
Severity: normal

A dialog keeps popping up if I have an gnomemeeting session open idle
in the background. The message is "cannot contact the user directory:
Failed to bind to user directory: Can't contact LDAP server". In and
of itself, the message is a little strange, I don't have any hint as
to what happened, and why it was trying to contact the server, but
this bug is specifically about it not providing any hint whatsoever
that the error message belongs to gnomemeeting. I had to query my
window manager to find out what Class it had. There is no dialog title
that mentions gnomemeeting, nothing in the error message text.

Please make sure all dialogs that aren't specifically opened by the
user, tell the user what program they belong to.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnomemeeting depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.8.1-2        GNOME configuration database syste
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  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-4        Open-source version of SGI's audio
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  libesd0                   0.2.35-2       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.2-3      GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4               2.8.1-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.8.0-2        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.8.0-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.8.0-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.8.3-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libldap2                  2.1.30-3       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libopenh323-1.13.2        1.13.5.4-4     H.323 aka VoIP library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.6.0-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libpt-1.6.3               1.6.6.4-5      Portable Windows Library
ii  libpt-plugins-alsa        1.6.6.4-5      Portable Windows Library Audio Plu
ii  libpt-plugins-v4l         1.6.6.4-5      Portable Windows Library Video Plu
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.7-10       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.5-2      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
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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