Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 444444
xpvm handles cmd line parameter "-v" incorrectly
Last modified: 2008-12-23 13:22:12 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Description of problem: The usage message of xpvm claims that command line parameter "-v" doesn't require any argument, but the reality is different... $ xpvm -H usage: xpvm [ hostfile ] [ -PO ] [ -T trace ] [ -N name ] [ -M nbytes ] [ -HSetv ] where: ------ hostfile = Alternate XPVM Hostfile (~/.xpvm_hosts) -P = Start XPVM in PlayBack Mode -O = Start XPVM in OverWrite Mode (default) -T trace = Use "trace" as Default Trace File -N name = Use "name" as Local Network Hostname -M nbytes = Set Default Message Size to "nbytes" -H = Print This Help Information -S = Dump SDDF Trace File Headers (and exit) -e = Dump Raw PVM Event Text -t = Text Mode, No Animation in Views -v = Verbose Operation Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pvm-gui-3.4.5-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. xpvm -v Actual Results: xpvm prints following message and exits: Application initialization failed: "-v" option requires an additional argument % Expected Results: xpvm runs in verbose mode Additional info:
I'm closing this out as WONTFIX. The xpvm program is a graphical tool and doesn't really expect to be running in text mode by default, but in case you do specify text mode, then the verbose flag is available. So, even though the message isn't real clear, the problem is that telling xpvm to be verbose (which implies text console verbosity) *does* require an additional argument: text mode.