[Python-apps-team] Bug#472117: Bug#472117: startupmanager: Crashes without notification on ppc

[Marco Rodrigues]

Hi!

Thanks for the reporting and the patch.. I'll forward this bug to upstream author.

Rudy Godoy wrote:
> Package: startupmanager
> Version: 1.9.10-3
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> On a ppc box (iBook) having installed usplash and grub2, the program
> starts ok until the point that is doing pre-config checks.
> Suddely after displaying that window, the program is gone.
> 
> Running it interactively it shows:
> grub-probe: error: /boot/grub/device.map:1: Bad device name
> Grub2 detected
> Usplash detected
> Splashy not detected
> File /boot/grub/grub.cfg does not exist.
> 
> 
> Which is correct, however it shouldn't make the program
> crash nor making impossible to configure usplash, which
> is present and correctly detected.
> 
> By doing some debugging I've managed to get it work
> and display usplash configuration using the attached
> patch. However, it does not seem to work to get startupmanager
> properly handling usplash configuration on this use case.
> 
> Since I'm not quite familiar with the code, I'm looking for
> ideas on where should we go next for fixing this.
> 
> --- startupmanager-1.9.10.orig/bootconfig/grub.py
> +++ startupmanager-1.9.10/bootconfig/grub.py
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>          for path in [self.update_grub_command,
>                       self.grub_install_command,
>                       self.config_file,
> +                     self.readonly_config_file,
>                       self.header_config_file]:
>              if not os.path.isfile(path):
>                  raise SystemExit('Fatal error. Can not find %s' % path)
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-powerpc
> Locale: LANG=es_PE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_PE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages startupmanager depends on:
> ii  grub-ieee1275 [grub]   1.96+20080228-1   GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
> ii  imagemagick            7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2 image manipulation programs
> ii  menu                   2.1.38            generates programs menu for all me
> ii  python                 2.4.4-6           An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-central         0.6.1             register and build utility for Pyt
> ii  python-glade2          2.12.1-1          GTK+ bindings: Glade support
> ii  python-gnome2          2.20.1-2          Python bindings for the GNOME desk
> ii  python-libxml2         2.6.31.dfsg-2     Python bindings for the GNOME XML 
> ii  yelp                   2.22.0-1          Help browser for GNOME 2
> 
> startupmanager recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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Marco Rodrigues

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