Package: galeon
Version: 1.3.19-1
Severity: normal
How to lose a download in five minutes using 'galeon'...
Using 'galeon' I start to fetch a package from one of Debians
experimental archives. 'galeon' asks me where to put it, so I pick
'/var/cache/apt/archives/'.
'galeon' DL's it for a while -- 2.3 megs, my modem or its server
wouldn't go past 2.9K/sec, ugh. While it's DL'ing it, I notice it's
saving it to a file in the '/tmp' directory. I watch that /tmp file,
since the DL window didn't know how big the file was or should be.
After a few minutes it finishes.
Suddently the file vanishes from '/tmp'. But it's not in
'/var/cache/apt/archives/'. It's gone. Why? Because I did it as a
user, and the destination directory could only be written to as root;
plain old human error.
'galeon' gave no error message, it lost 2.3 megs of data quietly.
It'd be better if the DL'er checked if the user had write access to a
given directory BEFORE trying to save a file there, and if a dir was off
limits it should allow users to select an allowed dir. Also if for
any reason it fails to save a file, (disk failure, not enough space, etc.),
there should be an error message. The file in '/tmp' (if it exists)
should be deleted only if the write was a success.
In a nutshell:
BAD:
1) prompt user for destination dir.
2) DL file to /tmp dir.
3) try to move file from /tmp to destination.
4) ignore errors, erase /tmp file.
BETTER:
1) prompt user for destination dir.
a) is destination verboten? Goto 1).
2) DL file to /tmp dir.
3) try to move file from /tmp to destination.
a) did the move work? Keep file, warn user.
b) otherwise erase /tmp file.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages galeon depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy
ii galeon-common 1.3.19-1 GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii gconf2 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.8.1-3 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-6 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.0-4 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.0-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libeel2-2 2.8.2-1 Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii libesd-alsa0 [libesd0] 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) -
ii libgail-common 1.8.2-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgail17 1.8.2-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-4 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-11 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.1-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.1-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.0-6 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.0-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.3-9 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.14-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhowl0 0.9.8-2 Library for Zeroconf service disco
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnautilus2-2 2.8.2-2 libraries for nautilus components
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-4 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii mozilla-browser 2:1.7.5-1 The Mozilla Internet application s
ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-9.1 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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