On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:52:19PM +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > Package: menu > Version: 2.1.36 > Severity: serious > > Many fluxbox users complain that after its first installation its menu > doesn't work. And they can solve this problem only by calling > update-menus command by hand. > > I inserted set -x option into postinst-script in order to make sure if > update-menus were really called and I became sure in it. > > Then I wrote a test script that allowed to reproduce the bug. The result > is below (reproducible with packages fluxbox and twm ...).
Thanks a lot for your well-documented bug report. Using your script I made some test: 1) I can reproduce this problem on sid (with menu 2.1.37) 2) I cannot reproduce this problem on etch (with menu 2.1.33) 3) I can reproduce this problem on sid with menu 2.1.33 (downgraded) The issue seems due to a change in the base system (I use the etch kernel for all tests) since using etch menu under etch work but not under sid. > Only the call of update-menus some time (3-5 sec) after the instalation > produces the needed result. The delay is normal: update-menus wait for dpkg to finish by checking a lock every 2 seconds. What is not normal is that update-menus never actually run after dpkg terminate. I will do more investigation. > I can't explain this phenomenon so I write this bug-report. > > PS: I set severity level into serious to this bug because I can't > provide the correct functioning of the other package (fluxbox, twm, etc). Technically, the severity serious cannot be correct, there is no specific policy that is violated here. It is either grave or important. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
