On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:28:29PM +0000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote: > > I did an 'apt-get source linuxlogo' and it unpacked the directory with > > user 501 and group users. I have no user 501 in /etc/passwd, should I? > > Shouldn't the source be unpacked as root owning the directory? > > > > It seems the tkdesk file browser really doesn't like this -- causing > > it > > to crash instantly if I try to open the directory (Is this also a bug > > against tkdesk?). > > I am getting this a lot with tkdesk too. It started happening a couple > of weeks ago after I did a dist-upgrade on woody. Everything else is > fine. This happens regularly when I try and dig down through the > directories. It has nothing to do with any particular directory. > > > -- > Phillip Deackes > Using Debian Linux
I just ate crow responding to the maintainer after filing a bug report on this. Seems he couldn't reproduce it. And today neither could I (though it happened to me 3 times in a row yesterday)! Wherever the problem lies, apparently it's not in the code that reads the dir. Maybe there are problems in caching dirs???, maybe it's a tcl/tk bug. I've had some other random errors which I can only relate to the length of time that tkdesk has been running. It's a bugger of a bug! -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
