Bug 439136 - gsynaptics-init crashes on startup
Summary: gsynaptics-init crashes on startup
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 446502
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gsynaptics
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andreas Thienemann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-27 08:43 UTC by Matthew Saltzman
Modified: 2008-12-06 19:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-12-06 19:25:13 UTC
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Patch to correct spelling of CoastingSpeed parameter (408 bytes, patch)
2008-03-27 21:41 UTC, Matthew Saltzman
no flags Details | Diff

Description Matthew Saltzman 2008-03-27 08:43:05 UTC
Description of problem:
A misspelled parameter name is rejected by gsynaptics-init, which then
terminates without starting daemons.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gsynaptics-0.9.12-2.1.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run gsynaptics-init --sm-disable
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
** (gsynaptics-init:32021): WARNING **: Using synclient
Unknown parameter CoastingSpeedThreashold

Expected results:
No error.

Additional info:
The history of this bug in Ubuntu is here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gsynaptics/+bug/70525.

Apparently, there is more to this than just the misspelling.  

According to the man page for synaptics(5), the proper name for the parameter is
CoastingSpeed.

Comment 1 Matthew Saltzman 2008-03-27 21:41:22 UTC
Created attachment 299393 [details]
Patch to correct spelling of CoastingSpeed parameter

This patch gets rid of the error message.  gsynaptics-init completes normally,
with only the warning.	I haven't verified yet that it does anything, as I'm no
longer quite sure what it's supposed to do.

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Comment 3 Matthew Saltzman 2008-12-06 19:25:13 UTC
This is a duplicate of Bug 446502, which applies to F9, so changing the version and marking as duplicate.  (Hope I've done the right thing...)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 446502 ***


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