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pppoeconf package

pppoeconf calls zenity with wrong arguments

Bug #60230 reported by Felix Braun on 2006-09-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #54383: [Edgy] pppoeconf prints useless error message, doesn't do anything. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pppoeconf (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

If launched in an X-session, pppoeconf sets XDisplay or zenity (whichever exists) as $DIALOG. Later on, $DIALOG is called with the options --yesno and --clear, both of which, zenity does not understand. The program therefore aborts with the following misleading error message:

# pppoeconf
This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.
# pppoeconf --help
This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

The workaround is to disable usage of zenity even if run under X.

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x (xk2c-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-09-21:

bug https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pppoeconf/+bug/54383
is probably a duplicate

Changed in pppoeconf:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Felix Braun (felix-braun) wrote on 2006-09-22:

patch that fixes the problem Edit (342 bytes, text/plain)

This patch fixes the problem. To apply download the patch and go:

user@host$ sudo patch <pppoeconf-fix-zenity.patch

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote on 2006-09-25:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.