Bug#273336: gnome-control-center: control-center/acme is trying
to open /dev/pmu even on powerpc subarches who don't have a pmu device
Sven Luther
Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>, 273336@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:19:48 +0200
Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.6.1-12
Severity: important
On powerpc subarches who don't have pmu support (everything except pmacs or
even possibly newworld pmacs), there is no /dev/pmu device. Particluarly when
using a 2.6 kernel (default on powerpc) with udev.
In debian/patches/08_pmu_fix.patch, there is ade which displays a error
message in this case, which should be removed, or better yet check for
subarches posssesing a pmu device.
mkvmlinuz distinguishes such machines in shell by :
case $(grep ^pmac-generation /proc/cpuinfo) in
*NewWorld) arch=pmac ;;
*OldWorld) arch=coff ;;
esac
So, this could be done in a similar way.
It would be really nice if this would be fixed before the 'imminent' sarge
freeze, as it is really annoying.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii capplets 1:2.6.1-12 configuration applets for GNOME 2
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.2-6 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.4-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.6.1-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1.2-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-4 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.9-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstartup-notification0 0.7-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxml2 2.6.11-3 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-7 compression library - runtime
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