On Thursday 04 December 2014 14.37:16 Timothy Pearson wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2014 11.37:33 Werner Joss wrote:
ok, here is a first short report about RC2:
- installation/upgrade from 3.5.13.2 (debian wheezy) did not go through
in one step, I had to do 'aptitude dist-upgrade' 4 or 5 times, as it stopped with dependency errors. finally, competed, though.
- seems to work mostly, so far, but still some glitches:
- konact works, but crashes reproducable upon exit.
- some applications are missing/not available:
kate kwrite kradio should I file bug reports about that ? Werner
I also had to use apt-get dist-update to get R14 running, but only one time.
But I have another problem: On R14 I can setup a "link to device" (an nfs share here) but it's not working: once the link is created, I get four tabs (General, permissions, meta-info and preview) where I used to have five ("device" is gone).
So the link is not working (mounting per hand does work). I rely heavily on these links so R14 is not usable at this point for me. I don't know if this is one of the "not yet ready" elements or a "bug"?
Thierry
This sounds like something that might have slipped through testing as I am not familiar with the feature you describe. In general, ever since R14 RC2 all software should be ready in its final functional form (even in RC1 this was mostly true but we ran into major problems with the compositor for that release); the only changes between RC2 and Final are to resolve some remaining crashes, minor defects, updated the documentation, etc.
Can you provide me with detailed reproduction instructions so that I can check for a quick fix?
Thanks!
Tim
So, this is what I can provide:
- two screenshots. Both show on the left the "create link" dialog (Create New -> Link to Device -> nfs). It shows five tabs, the middle one being "Device".
On the right you see the properties of an existing "Link to Device".
On the desktop of 3.5.13.2 you have the middle tab. On the desktop of 3.5.14.0.0 it does not show. The Link does not get the correct icon and it does not work either (although mount <mount point> works, so the nfs mount does work).
I also compared the Desktop Files, they are identical, so the problem is deeper.
Thierry
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On Thursday 04 December 2014 14.37:16 Timothy Pearson wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2014 11.37:33 Werner Joss wrote:
ok, here is a first short report about RC2:
- installation/upgrade from 3.5.13.2 (debian wheezy) did not go
through
in one step, I had to do 'aptitude dist-upgrade' 4 or 5 times, as it stopped with dependency errors. finally, competed, though.
- seems to work mostly, so far, but still some glitches:
- konact works, but crashes reproducable upon exit.
- some applications are missing/not available:
kate kwrite kradio should I file bug reports about that ? Werner
I also had to use apt-get dist-update to get R14 running, but only one time.
But I have another problem: On R14 I can setup a "link to device"
(an
nfs share here) but it's not working: once the link is created, I get four tabs (General, permissions, meta-info and preview) where I used to have
five
("device" is gone).
So the link is not working (mounting per hand does work). I rely
heavily
on these links so R14 is not usable at this point for me. I don't know if this is one of the "not yet ready" elements or a "bug"?
Thierry
This sounds like something that might have slipped through testing as I am not familiar with the feature you describe. In general, ever since R14 RC2 all software should be ready in its final functional form (even in RC1 this was mostly true but we ran into major problems with the compositor for that release); the only changes between RC2 and Final are to resolve some remaining crashes, minor defects, updated the documentation, etc.
Can you provide me with detailed reproduction instructions so that I can check for a quick fix?
Thanks!
Tim
So, this is what I can provide:
- two screenshots. Both show on the left the "create link" dialog (Create
New -> Link to Device -> nfs). It shows five tabs, the middle one being "Device".
On the right you see the properties of an existing "Link to Device".
On the desktop of 3.5.13.2 you have the middle tab. On the desktop of 3.5.14.0.0 it does not show. The Link does not get the correct icon and it does not work either (although mount <mount point> works, so the nfs mount does work).
I also compared the Desktop Files, they are identical, so the problem is deeper.
Thierry
Thank you for the detailed information. This is probably related to the HAL --> TDE hwlib (udev) transition; let me see if there's a fix that can be included in R14 final.
Tim
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On Thursday 04 December 2014 14.37:16 Timothy Pearson wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2014 11.37:33 Werner Joss wrote:
ok, here is a first short report about RC2:
- installation/upgrade from 3.5.13.2 (debian wheezy) did not go
through
in one step, I had to do 'aptitude dist-upgrade' 4 or 5 times, as it stopped with dependency errors. finally, competed, though.
- seems to work mostly, so far, but still some glitches:
- konact works, but crashes reproducable upon exit.
- some applications are missing/not available:
kate kwrite kradio should I file bug reports about that ? Werner
I also had to use apt-get dist-update to get R14 running, but only
one
time.
But I have another problem: On R14 I can setup a "link to device"
(an
nfs share here) but it's not working: once the link is created, I get
four
tabs (General, permissions, meta-info and preview) where I used to have
five
("device" is gone).
So the link is not working (mounting per hand does work). I rely
heavily
on these links so R14 is not usable at this point for me. I don't know
if
this is one of the "not yet ready" elements or a "bug"?
Thierry
This sounds like something that might have slipped through testing as I am not familiar with the feature you describe. In general, ever since R14 RC2 all software should be ready in its final functional form (even in RC1 this was mostly true but we ran into major problems with the compositor for that release); the only changes between RC2 and Final are to resolve some remaining crashes, minor defects, updated the documentation, etc.
Can you provide me with detailed reproduction instructions so that I can check for a quick fix?
Thanks!
Tim
So, this is what I can provide:
- two screenshots. Both show on the left the "create link" dialog
(Create New -> Link to Device -> nfs). It shows five tabs, the middle one being "Device".
On the right you see the properties of an existing "Link to Device".
On the desktop of 3.5.13.2 you have the middle tab. On the desktop of 3.5.14.0.0 it does not show. The Link does not get the correct icon and it does not work either (although mount <mount point> works, so the nfs mount does work).
I also compared the Desktop Files, they are identical, so the problem is deeper.
Thierry
Thank you for the detailed information. This is probably related to the HAL --> TDE hwlib (udev) transition; let me see if there's a fix that can be included in R14 final.
Tim
Turns out this was actually caused by the switch to libmagic vs. the obsolete MIME detection system shipped with TDE 3.5.13.x. TDE was not properly detecting the desktop file MIME type and therefore was treating the desktop files as plain text files, thereby preventing the file system features from working.
Fixed in GIT hash 6ddd04b (tdelibs). This fix will be part of R14 Final.
Thanks for reporting this issue and providing the debug info!
Tim
On Friday 05 December 2014 19.42:48 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Turns out this was actually caused by the switch to libmagic vs. the obsolete MIME detection system shipped with TDE 3.5.13.x. TDE was not properly detecting the desktop file MIME type and therefore was treating the desktop files as plain text files, thereby preventing the file system features from working.
Fixed in GIT hash 6ddd04b (tdelibs). This fix will be part of R14 Final.
Thanks for reporting this issue and providing the debug info!
Tim
Thank you for the fast fixing !
Thierry
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