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gnome-system-tools package

list of services in services-admin is not extensible

Bug #115199 reported by Wolfgang Glas
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

I was pounding my head against a wall for a few hours trying to get my own lsb-conformant init.d-script listed in services-admin.
After a while, I discovered that services-admin uses a hardcoded list of supported services in src/common/gst-service-role.c, which is not a feasible solution for providers of ubuntu add-on packages.

Thus, services-admin should keep a list of service either in a cache located in /var or it should scn /etc/init.d for script using lsb-conformant INIT INFO - comments.
Alternatively, a mechanism could be provided to register a new service to seervices-admin in a deb-postinst script. Such a mechanism supposedly should handle internationalization of service descriptions and custom icons .

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440220

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in rebuntu:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

This will be fixed with 2.29.90, it will be in Lucid.

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

Maybe I should be a little more explicit: what you suggest in the bug description is not implemented, that would require a full specification, plus discussions with Upstart developers and people from other distributions (even LSB?). For now I've simply allowed unknown services to be shown in the list only with their name. No icon nor description sadly, because getting translations would be really complex - but that's good enough if users know about your service.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

Fix released upstream with the gnome-system-tools 2.29.90 and system-tools-backends 2.9.2.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This should be fixed in Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks for reporting.

Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu):
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Or rather I meant to say services-admin has been removed from Ubuntu because of upstart. See bug #433701.

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

And anyway it's fixed upstream, if we bring back services-admin at some point (there's a Summer of Code project about Upstart support).

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