On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:02:08 +0100 DoubleHP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> I use Engage to start gaim on Gentoo. It came today that my gaim 2 beta was > broken for some Gentoo reasons. > > E (build around 21st dec 05) presents me a dialog where it says: > > Enlightenment was unable run the program: > /usr/bin/gaim > The command was not found. > > - my build is old, but I dont think any one could possibly have my bug (see > below) > - I d rather say "Enlightenment was unable TO run the program" but I am not > native English. > - the actual error was not that the command was not found, and thus the > meaning itself is also wrong: > > $ which gaim > /usr/bin/gaim > > $ file /usr/bin/gaim > /usr/bin/gaim: ELF 32-bit LSB executable [...] > > $ /usr/bin/gaim > /usr/bin/gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-glib-1.so.1: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > here we are: command IS found, but program is not linkable. > > Not urgent, but should be patched before stable E released. > > Challenge: how to make the difference between command not found and linker > error ? no clue :) aah. this is because /bin/sh returns 127 If the command is not found. it looks like ld.so also exist with 127 if shared lib linking doesn't work - so we have no way to really knwo exactly what the error was - other than there was an error runinbg the application. the message was based on the sh return of the command not being found. i don't think we are likely to catch and log/parse the stdout/stderror of all programs launched to try figure out the errors (not to mention parsing them is nigh impossible as the errors will get translated based on locale - so we need different parsers based on each translation locale for the system... not going to happen. even if we just capture and log (up to the first N lines of output - whihc we can actually do how with fork & pipe (we need to be able top handle stderror though... that could be a useful addition) we could just display whatever the process spweds out in a dialog - but even then it may not make a lot of sense...). -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
