Fedora Account System
Red Hat Associate
Red Hat Customer
Description of problem: While editing a document with nedit, select the Shell menu, then select spell, wc, sort or other shell commands to run on the document. Those commands fail with the message "Error starting shell: /bin/csh". The problem goes away if the tcsh package is installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nedit-5.5-12.fc8 How reproducible: Always, if the csh shell (tcsh package) isn't installed. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open nedit 2. Open any text file 3. Select Shell -> wc (or spell, sort, etc.) Actual results: Message appears "Error starting shell: /bin/csh Expected results: The requested command should run on the file being edited. Additional info: I'm guessing that the tcsh package should be required to install nedit or maybe nedit could be changed to use a shell that's always there (like bash).
Ok, I switched default shell to /bin/sh by default so that we don't need to require tcsh for nedit. Thanks for noticing!
nedit-5.5-12.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nedit'
nedit-5.5-12.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
nedit-5.5-13.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.