Bug 716398 - missing dependency to gnome-terminal
Summary: missing dependency to gnome-terminal
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nautilus-open-terminal
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-24 10:07 UTC by Vladimir Benes
Modified: 2015-03-03 23:01 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nautilus-open-terminal-0.17-4.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: no terminal application was installed Consequence: nautilus-open-terminal failed to launch a terminal Fix: gnome-terminal package has been set as hard dependency Result: at least one terminal application is guaranteed to be available
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-08-24 10:55:34 UTC
Target Upstream Version:


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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1205 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE nautilus-open-terminal bug fix update 2011-08-24 10:55:30 UTC

Description Vladimir Benes 2011-06-24 10:07:07 UTC
Description of problem:
after clean system installation via Beaker I've ended with nautilus with open in terminal menu item in right click menu but I have no gnome-terminal installed so it fails silently .. just nothing happens    

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-2.28.4-15.el6.i686
nautilus-open-terminal-0.17-3.el6.i686

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install nautilus-open-terminal w/o gnome-terminal being installed
2. right click on desktop
3. click open in terminal
  
Actual results:
nothing

Expected results:
terminal should be opened

Additional info:

Comment 5 Tomáš Bžatek 2011-07-28 14:19:52 UTC
nautilus-open-terminal doesn't actually depend on having gnome-terminal installed, it could spawn other terminal commands but let's assume you had none of them installed. Still, it would be good to require at least one terminal emulator, let's go for hard Require dependency on gnome-terminal.

Comment 7 Tomáš Bžatek 2011-08-01 14:18:36 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Cause: no terminal application was installed

Consequence: nautilus-open-terminal failed to launch a terminal

Fix: gnome-terminal package has been set as hard dependency

Result: at least one terminal application is guaranteed to be available

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-24 10:55:34 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1205.html


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