Bug 228632

Summary: GQ forgets its preferences
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ian Chapman <packages>
Component: gqAssignee: Terje Røsten <terje.rosten>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Ian Chapman 2007-02-14 02:51:45 UTC
Description of problem:

gq seems to just 'forget' its preference settings, particularly with regards to 
the servers list. For example if I add a few ldap servers into the preferences 
list, eventually they disappear and all I'm left with is 'localhost'.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gq-1.2.2-2.fc6


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. As a simple example, open up gq, go to preferences and delete the localhost 
entry, assuming a virgin run.
2. Quit gq
3. Load it again and surprisingly its back.
  
Actual results:
Preferences get mangled somehow, particularly with regards to storing the 
server details. Playing with the "Show Relative Distinguished Name" option, 
seems to cause servers to disappear from the preferences too.

Expected results:
Sane preference handling.

Additional info:

The following sort of messages are frequently seen on the console if launched 
from the command line.

** (gq:3601): CRITICAL **: gq_server_list_get_by_name: assertion `name 
&& *name' failed
[ian@pip ~]$ gq

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: is_transient_server: assertion 
`GQ_IS_SERVER(server)' failed

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: is_transient_server: assertion 
`GQ_IS_SERVER(server)' failed

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: is_transient_server: assertion 
`GQ_IS_SERVER(server)' failed

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: gq_server_list_get_by_name: assertion `name 
&& *name' failed

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: is_transient_server: assertion 
`GQ_IS_SERVER(server)' failed

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: is_transient_server: assertion 
`GQ_IS_SERVER(server)' failed

** (gq:3612): CRITICAL **: gq_server_list_remove: assertion 
`gq_server_list_contains(self, server)' failed

Comment 1 Terje Røsten 2007-02-19 12:38:03 UTC
Yeah, there are several problems in this area.

Upstream has several bugs: #1593645, #1593662, #1593669.
Herzi has done some hacking lately, maybe this stuff will
be better in the next stable upstream release.

Comment 2 Terje Røsten 2008-01-08 22:22:41 UTC
Sven released a gq 1.3.3 today, can you give it a try?

A srpm is available here:

 http://terjeros.fedorapeople.org/gq/

rebuild on your platform with

 $ rpmbuild --rebuild gq-1.3.3-1.fc8.src.rpm

If you can't rebuild your self, I can do it for you if tell the fedora version
and arch you are running. Thanks in advance.




Comment 3 Ian Chapman 2008-01-08 22:43:00 UTC
Thanks, I'll check out the new RPM shortly :-)

Comment 4 Ian Chapman 2008-01-12 01:15:07 UTC
Ah yes, this version seems to work a lot better for me. There's also a few
things I noticed about the srpm.

1. You're missing a BR on gnome-doc-utils
2. You need a BR on /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-config (especially for F7)
3. On F7 you also need something like rm -rf %{buildroot}/var (or equivalent) to
delete the unneeded scrollkeeper crap otherwise it'll fail. This isn't needed
with F8+ because scrollkeeper stuff is handled by rarian I believe.

Thanks! :)

Comment 5 Terje Røsten 2008-01-14 20:38:23 UTC
This sounds good, will update gq to 1.4.0 when it's released.

Thanks for testing and providing feedback on the package.






Comment 6 Terje Røsten 2008-01-21 21:42:23 UTC
New srpm with more fixes available:

 http://terjeros.fedorapeople.org/gq/gq-1.3.3-2.fc8.src.rpm




Comment 7 Ian Chapman 2008-02-26 15:18:15 UTC
Thanks, missed that. I'll have a look soon.

Comment 8 Ian Chapman 2008-03-19 23:56:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> New srpm with more fixes available:
> 
>  http://terjeros.fedorapeople.org/gq/gq-1.3.3-2.fc8.src.rpm

Seems to work reasonably well too and builds fine in mock at least for F8 this
time. :)



Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:13:23 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
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Comment 10 Terje Røsten 2008-04-04 21:22:52 UTC
Just to make it clear, comment #9 is bogus, just ignore. Sorry for the noise.


Comment 11 John Poelstra 2008-05-02 23:55:51 UTC
changing version to '8' so this bug does not get closed as part of EOL closing
process

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Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:04:32 UTC
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