Bug 51112

Summary:	`ethereal' not working without -gnome package
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	ethereal	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	rvokal
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Bug Blocks:	46127

Description Enrico Scholz 2001-08-07 13:52:35 UTC

Description of Problem:

ethereal-0.8.18-9 contains the file /usr/bin/ethereal which is a link to
`consolehelper'. This program will run /usr/sbin/ethereal as defined in
/etc/security/console.apps/ethereal:

| USER=root
| PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/ethereal
| SESSION=true
| FALLBACK=true

/usr/bin/ethereal and .../console.apps/ethereal are part of of the base
`ethereal' package but /usr/sbin/ethereal is in `ethereal-gnome'. 

Thus, calling `ethereal' without an installed ethereal-gnome will fail
mysteriously (see #46127).

I suggest to move named files into the -gnome package.


How Reproducible:

everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e ethereal-gnome; rpm -U ethereal
2. ethereal


Actual Results:

nothing; no error-msg, no window


Expected Results:

an error-msg or a window

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2001-08-16 16:44:43 UTC

OK, i see the problem now.

Fixed by moving the /usr/bin/ethereal application (resp. symlink) to the correct
package, namely ethereal-gnome.

That way things should work as expected.

The fixed version (0.8.18-10) should appear in rawhide over the next few weeks.

Read ya, Phil