Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Willem van den Akker]

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 01:59 +, Pelle Hjek wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I may have misunderstood the purpose of gtkterm, as there is another program 
> with the same name, described like this:
> "GTKTerm is a small graphical shell like XTerm."
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkterm/
> 
> I was mistakenly expecting GTKTerm to be a terminal emulator and was 
> expecting it to show a prompt.
> 
> Something that may have contributed to my confusion is the fact that GTKTerm 
> segfaults when clicking in the "Help" menu, and that the service, on which 
> the project web site in listed the GTKTerm man page ( 
> https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/ ) is hosted, has been discontinued.
> 

Hi,

I understand the mixup. 2 projects with the same name but different
functions are confusing. 

The segfaults in the help is a known problem and fixed in the latest
version in testing. 

Thanks for you clarification.

/Willem

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Willem van den Akker]

Sorry,

Wrong reply to this mail  shame shame shame.

/Willem

On Sun, 2018-02-18 at 17:18 +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
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> 
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> Op 18 feb. 2018 3:09 a.m. schreef Pelle Hjek :
> > Hi
> > 
> > I may have misunderstood the purpose of gtkterm, as there is
> > another program with the same name, described like this:
> > "GTKTerm is a small graphical shell like XTerm."
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkterm/
> > 
> > I was mistakenly expecting GTKTerm to be a terminal emulator and
> > was expecting it to show a prompt.
> > 
> > Something that may have contributed to my confusion is the fact
> > that GTKTerm segfaults when clicking in the "Help" menu, and that
> > the service, on which the project web site in listed the GTKTerm
> > man page ( https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/ ) is hosted, has been
> > discontinued.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pelle Hjek
> > h...@member.fsf.org
> > https://news.hjek.tk
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:01:14PM +0100, Willem van den Akker
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 18:44 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > Control: severity -1 grave
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:04:13PM +0100, Willem van den Akker
> > wrote:
> > > > > Hello Pelle,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Please notice you are using reporting against an older
> > version.
> > > > > The latest version has many updates.
> > > > >...
> > > > 
> > > > This is the version in stable.
> > > > 
> > > > This is the version normal users are expected to use,
> > > > and it is supported by Debian until 2020.
> > > > 
> > > > I cannot comment on the contents of this bug, but if it is as
> > broken as 
> > > > it sounds this might be an RC issue in stable that should be
> > fixed by 
> > > > the maintainer for stable.
> > > > 
> > > > > Greetings
> > > > > Willem vdAkker
> > > > 
> > > > cu
> > > > Adrian
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Ok, point taken :)
> > > 
> > > Hello Pelle,
> > > 
> > > Can you describe the situatie when the failure is shown?
> > > What is connected to which serial port. What is your
> > configuration
> > > for that serial port.
> > > 
> > > /Willem
> 
> 

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Willem van den Akker]

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Op 18 feb. 2018 3:09 a.m. schreef Pelle Hjek :

Hi

I may have misunderstood the purpose of gtkterm, as there is another program 
with the same name, described like this:
"GTKTerm is a small graphical shell like XTerm."
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkterm/

I was mistakenly expecting GTKTerm to be a terminal emulator and was expecting 
it to show a prompt.

Something that may have contributed to my confusion is the fact that GTKTerm 
segfaults when clicking in the "Help" menu, and that the service, on which the 
project web site in listed the GTKTerm man page ( 
https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/ ) is hosted, has been discontinued.

-- 
Pelle Hjek
h...@member.fsf.org
https://news.hjek.tk

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:01:14PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 18:44 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 grave
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:04:13PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> > > Hello Pelle,
> > > 
> > > Please notice you are using reporting against an older version.
> > > The latest version has many updates.
> > >...
> > 
> > This is the version in stable.
> > 
> > This is the version normal users are expected to use,
> > and it is supported by Debian until 2020.
> > 
> > I cannot comment on the contents of this bug, but if it is as broken as 
> > it sounds this might be an RC issue in stable that should be fixed by 
> > the maintainer for stable.
> > 
> > > Greetings
> > > Willem vdAkker
> > 
> > cu
> > Adrian
> > 
> 
> Ok, point taken :)
> 
> Hello Pelle,
> 
> Can you describe the situatie when the failure is shown?
> What is connected to which serial port. What is your configuration
> for that serial port.
> 
> /Willem

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Pelle Hjek]

Hi

I may have misunderstood the purpose of gtkterm, as there is another program 
with the same name, described like this:
"GTKTerm is a small graphical shell like XTerm."
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkterm/

I was mistakenly expecting GTKTerm to be a terminal emulator and was expecting 
it to show a prompt.

Something that may have contributed to my confusion is the fact that GTKTerm 
segfaults when clicking in the "Help" menu, and that the service, on which the 
project web site in listed the GTKTerm man page ( 
https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/ ) is hosted, has been discontinued.

-- 
Pelle Hjek
h...@member.fsf.org
https://news.hjek.tk

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:01:14PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 18:44 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Control: severity -1 grave
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:04:13PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> > > Hello Pelle,
> > > 
> > > Please notice you are using reporting against an older version.
> > > The latest version has many updates.
> > >...
> > 
> > This is the version in stable.
> > 
> > This is the version normal users are expected to use,
> > and it is supported by Debian until 2020.
> > 
> > I cannot comment on the contents of this bug, but if it is as broken as 
> > it sounds this might be an RC issue in stable that should be fixed by 
> > the maintainer for stable.
> > 
> > > Greetings
> > > Willem vdAkker
> > 
> > cu
> > Adrian
> > 
> 
> Ok, point taken :)
> 
> Hello Pelle,
> 
> Can you describe the situatie when the failure is shown?
> What is connected to which serial port. What is your configuration
> for that serial port.
> 
> /Willem

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Willem van den Akker]

On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 18:44 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Control: severity -1 grave
> 
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:04:13PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> > Hello Pelle,
> > 
> > Please notice you are using reporting against an older version.
> > The latest version has many updates.
> >...
> 
> This is the version in stable.
> 
> This is the version normal users are expected to use,
> and it is supported by Debian until 2020.
> 
> I cannot comment on the contents of this bug, but if it is as broken as 
> it sounds this might be an RC issue in stable that should be fixed by 
> the maintainer for stable.
> 
> > Greetings
> > Willem vdAkker
> 
> cu
> Adrian
> 

Ok, point taken :)

Hello Pelle,

Can you describe the situatie when the failure is shown?
What is connected to which serial port. What is your configuration
for that serial port.

/Willem

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: severity -1 grave

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 05:04:13PM +0100, Willem van den Akker wrote:
> Hello Pelle,
> 
> Please notice you are using reporting against an older version.
> The latest version has many updates.
>...

This is the version in stable.

This is the version normal users are expected to use,
and it is supported by Debian until 2020.

I cannot comment on the contents of this bug, but if it is as broken as 
it sounds this might be an RC issue in stable that should be fixed by 
the maintainer for stable.

> Greetings
> Willem vdAkker

cu
Adrian

-- 

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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
   "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
   Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Willem van den Akker]

Hello Pelle,

Please notice you are using reporting against an older version.
The latest version has many updates.

Can you test against the latest version 0.99.7+git9d63182-1

I will lower the severity to normal and hope to hear soon from
you.

Greetings
Willem vdAkker

Bug#890600: gtkterm: No prompt

[Pelle Hjek]

Package: gtkterm
Version: 0.99.7~rc1-0.3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

When opening gtkterm, I get no prompt. I can see a blinking square cursor.
Nothing happens when I type.

Gtkterm also reports this error, `Control signals read: Input/output error` to
stderr.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gtkterm depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.22.0-1
ii  libc62.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libcairo21.14.8-1
ii  libfontconfig1   2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii  libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.24.31-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0   1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.5-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-01.40.5-1
ii  libvte9  1:0.28.2-5+b2
ii  libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2

gtkterm recommends no packages.

gtkterm suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information