From: [email protected]

Package: xplanet
Version: 1.1.0-2
Severity: important

edd@homebud:~> xplanet -output file.jpg -num_times 1
[ x11 window with xplanet output shows up, manually closed ] edd@homebud:~> ls -l file*
ls: file*: No such file or directory
edd@homebud:~>

The options still work in the version on testing. The update broke all scripted use of xplanet as e.g. in the background window use on my desktop.

Dirk

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages xplanet depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.31 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libnetpbm10 2:10.0-5 Shared libraries for netpbm
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.6.1-1.1 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-1 shared library for GIF images (run ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* xplanet/Planet_maps:
* xplanet/Stable_Release:


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From: [email protected]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:22:27AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

Package: xplanet
Version: 1.1.0-2
Severity: important

edd@homebud:~> xplanet -output file.jpg -num_times 1
[ x11 window with xplanet output shows up, manually closed ] edd@homebud:~> ls -l file*
ls: file*: No such file or directory
edd@homebud:~>

The options still work in the version on testing. The update broke all scripted use of xplanet as e.g. in the background window use on my desktop.

Looking more closely, it turned out that the version in testing alone is not the difference -- but running the command under a zsh shell rather than the default bash was.

So you may want to reassign this to bash. Or, ideally, figure out how to
make it more robust to the changes from bash 3.0.

Dirk

Dirk

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages xplanet depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.31 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnetpbm10 2:10.0-5 Shared libraries for netpbm
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-7 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff4 3.6.1-1.1 Tag Image File Format library
ii libungif4g 4.1.3-1 shared library for GIF images (run
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* xplanet/Planet_maps:
* xplanet/Stable_Release:

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:44:34AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:22:27AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

Package: xplanet
Version: 1.1.0-2
Severity: important

edd@homebud:~> xplanet -output file.jpg -num_times 1
[ x11 window with xplanet output shows up, manually closed ] edd@homebud:~> ls -l file*
ls: file*: No such file or directory
edd@homebud:~>

The options still work in the version on testing. The update broke all scripted use of xplanet as e.g. in the background window use on my desktop.

Looking more closely, it turned out that the version in testing alone is not the difference -- but running the command under a zsh shell rather than the default bash was.

So you may want to reassign this to bash. Or, ideally, figure out how to
make it more robust to the changes from bash 3.0.

Dirk

Hi Dirk,

I am not able to reproduce your problem with either bash (the testing
version) or zsh (testing/unstable). No x11 window shows up at all. I
do get a non-zero file.jpg. Very puzzled! Are you running bash 3.0?
When do you have the problem - when running zsh or bash 3.0?

Before re-assigning to bash, I'd like to get some more info.

When using -output, it should not have any x-window output at all. I
don't see what that has to do with the shell. Can you verify that you
are running the right xplanet by using the full pathname? Also please
indicate any config files you are using in the invocation in a
non-explicit manner (see -searchdir in the manual page).

Gopal.


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Gopal,

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:16:26PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote:

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:44:34AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:22:27AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

Package: xplanet
Version: 1.1.0-2
Severity: important

edd@homebud:~> xplanet -output file.jpg -num_times 1
[ x11 window with xplanet output shows up, manually closed ]
edd@homebud:~> ls -l file*
ls: file*: No such file or directory
edd@homebud:~>

The options still work in the version on testing. The update broke all scripted use of xplanet as e.g. in the background window use on my desktop.

Looking more closely, it turned out that the version in testing alone is not
the difference -- but running the command under a zsh shell rather than the default bash was.

So you may want to reassign this to bash. Or, ideally, figure out how to make it more robust to the changes from bash 3.0.

Dirk

Hi Dirk,

I am not able to reproduce your problem with either bash (the testing version) or zsh (testing/unstable). No x11 window shows up at all. I
do get a non-zero file.jpg. Very puzzled! Are you running bash 3.0?

Yes: Debian unstable, current, kde 3.3, bash 3.0. I've had xplanet as the 'advanced background' under KDE for a few years.

KDE calls it with a few options (geometry, nb runs, long., lat., rel.size),
I guess this gets called by system() -- which on that system leads via
/bin/sh to bash 3.0.

When do you have the problem - when running zsh or bash 3.0?

It 'fails' under bash 3.0 -- all optrions are ignored.

It works normally under Debian testing, or zsh on the unstable system. I haven't restarted KDE to get a different /bin/sh -- just moving the symlink didn;t help.

Before re-assigning to bash, I'd like to get some more info.

When using -output, it should not have any x-window output at all. I
don't see what that has to do with the shell. Can you verify that you
are running the right xplanet by using the full pathname? Also please

I don't think I have another one, but I could add /usr/bin/ to the call.

indicate any config files you are using in the invocation in a
non-explicit manner (see -searchdir in the manual page).

As I see it now, all options are simply dropped before xplanet is called.
Why bash would do that I do not know.

Dirk

PS I meant to write to you regarding Quantian (http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html) which contains a few packages
you maintain. I have been meaning to contact all 'science / quant.'
maintainers but haven't yet. Comments would ne welcome if you have any ...

Gopal.

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Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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