Bug#598848: gnome-nettool: On kfreebsd is mostly non-functional.

[Michael Dorrington]

Package: gnome-nettool
Version: 2.30.0-1
Severity: important
User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org

On kfreebsd the various networking tools of gnome-nettool
(Applications->System Tools->Network Tools) generally do not work and
using them causes the whole application to lock up. The Devices tab has
missing information on the network card such that it is Ethernet and
what its hardware address is. When run from the command line, using the
tools produce error messages to the console such as:

kvm_open: kvm_nlist: No such file or directory

and

netstat: kvm not available: inet6: No such file or directory

It appears that gnome-nettool (and perhaps some of the libraries and
programs it relies on) have not been adapted for kfreebsd so leaving
gnome-nettool mostly non-functional on kfreebsd.

Regards,
Mike.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-nettool depends on:
ii  dnsutils               1:9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2 Clients provided with BIND
ii  freebsd-net-tools [net 8.1-2             FreeBSD networking tools
ii  inetutils-ping [ping]  2:1.6-3+b1        ICMP echo tool
ii  libc0.1                2.11.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.1-3          GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.1-1+b1       The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libgtop2-7             2.28.1-1          gtop system monitoring
library (sh
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.28.1-1          Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  tcptraceroute          1.5beta7+debian-4 traceroute implementation
using TC
ii  whois                  5.0.7             an intelligent whois client

gnome-nettool recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-nettool suggests:
ii  gnome-system-tools            2.30.2-1   Cross-platform
configuration utili

-- no debconf information

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