Bug#790773: gparted: Bug in gparted script

2015-07-01 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Hi Curtis, I am sorry. From a very long time ago I set the environment variable I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS and it screws up (as it rightly advertises!) the workings of ps. I only ever use ps aux which it does not tamper with so it never occurred to me that this problem was lurking. It's been there for man

Bug#790773: Debian Bug #790773 - gparted: Bug in gparted script

2015-07-01 Thread Curtis Gedak
Thank you Morten for your interest in improving GParted. Does the "ps -e" command on your system list the command arguments in addition to the command itself? If so, would you be able to provide a listing of the command and output in this report? In my experience if the "ps -ef" command is used

Bug#790773: gparted: Bug in gparted script

2015-07-01 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
Package: gparted Version: 0.19.0-3 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, The gparted script tests for an already running instance of gpartedbin by using the line: test "z`ps -e | grep gpartedbin`" != "z" but the condition is met because the output contains the "grep gartedbin" pr