Bug 16475 - gdict quietly fails to start in an absence of DNS
Summary: gdict quietly fails to start in an absence of DNS
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-utils
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-08-17 21:09 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-21 16:44:40 UTC
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2000-08-17 21:09:39 UTC 
If a machine does not have a working DNS able to resolve www.dict.org
then 'gdict' simply does not start and does not give any visible
indication why it is unhappy.  Included documents are also of no help.
They indicate that running 'gdict -a' from a command line should
start an application.  This immediately exits as confirmed by strace.

  Michal
  michal
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2000-08-21 16:44:37 UTC 
Fixed in the test tree
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