Bug 147247 - upgrade to straw-0.22.1-4 overwrites previous preferences
Summary: upgrade to straw-0.22.1-4 overwrites previous preferences
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: straw
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Colin Charles
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 186731
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-05 00:03 UTC by Jack Spaar
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2007-07-09 13:36:54 UTC
Type: ---
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Description Jack Spaar 2005-02-05 00:03:46 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading to straw-0.22.1-4, no articles appeared for any feed.
 Turns out existing user preferences had been modified, with "Display
x articles at once" set to 0, probably some other prefs changed also.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
straw-0.22.1-4

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to straw-0.22.1-4 from a previous release
2. 
3.
  
Actual results:
No articles are displayed in the Articles list for any feed because
#-of-articles-to-display preference has been reset to 0.

Expected results:
Keep existing user preferences.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2005-02-05 00:26:06 UTC
From what version did you upgrade? This straw 0.22.1 release was done on
04-May-2004 and has not been upgraded since.


Comment 2 Jack Spaar 2005-02-05 01:07:03 UTC
Hmm good question.  

$ grep straw /var/log/rpmpkgs*
/var/log/rpmpkgs:straw-0.22.1-4.noarch.rpm
/var/log/rpmpkgs.1:straw-0.22.1-0.fdr.4.1.92.noarch.rpm

Looks like it was from Fedora US, probably the src rpm from 2/testing.


Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2005-02-05 04:54:09 UTC
Well, that's exactly the same version. Same version of Straw, same
package version. Just one built against Fedora Core 2 Test 3, the
other one against Fedora Core 3.

The package itself does not touch the user preferences at all. So,
it's not a packaging bug.

Under which circumstances Straw 0.22.1 can lose its preferences--it
uses GConf as backend--is another issue. I could not reproduce it with
data from a FC2 account on FC3.

(hint: Liferea is a very good alternative feed reader)

Comment 4 Michael Schwendt 2005-02-05 23:24:52 UTC
Can reproduce with the upgrade to 0.25.1, which I basically blocked in
QA due to many issues, including a crash at startup:
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1841

To reproduce, I copy ~/.straw from FC2 to FC3, install the upgrade
there and start Straw. I described similar symptoms as in this ticket
there:
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1841#c20


Comment 5 Colin Charles 2005-04-12 22:16:05 UTC
Its possibly because you required mxDateTime to convert the straw database to
the newer format, and we didn't provide it.

Straw is now going to be bumped to a new release hopefully soon (0.25), so I'm
wondering if we should provide mxDateTime for users of straw older than 0.21.2
or if we should just go thru the upgrade and that users get a nice new straw

Thoughts?

Comment 6 Alex Lancaster 2006-03-25 21:27:57 UTC
Bug #186731 notes that straw 0.26 from Feb 2006 is out, perhaps a version
upgrade will fix this.

Comment 7 Christian Iseli 2007-01-19 23:46:18 UTC
FC3 and FC4 have now been EOL'd.

Please check the ticket against a current Fedora release, and either adjust the
release number, or close it if appropriate.

Thanks.

Your friendly BZ janitor :-)

Comment 8 Alex Lancaster 2007-07-09 13:36:54 UTC
Straw appears to be orphaned, closing as WONTFIX.


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