Ubuntu
hwdb-client package

hwdb-gui fails to save hardware info when it can't submit info to the server and the "Desktop" dir does not exist

Bug #127069 reported by Victor Osadci
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hwdb-client (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make sure the "Desktop" directory does not exist in the user home;
2. Make sure the machine is not connected to the Internet, so that the on-line submit process will fail.
3. hwdb-gui will try to save the data to the "~/Desktop" directory; if the directory does not exist, the data will not be saved;

Revision history for this message
Stéphane Loeuillet (leroutier) wrote :

This could be a real problem with newer release because of xdg-user-dirs as now, Desktop directory is translated into user's locale (Bureau in my case, in French)

Changed in hwdb-client:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Victor Osadci (victor-os) wrote :

Still an issue in Hardy.

The path is hard coded in hwdb-send: "os.system('mv /tmp/'+md5sum[0]+'.xml.bz2 ~/Desktop/')"

There is no error checking either to see if the operation was successeful.

Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

The hwdb-client package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.

Changed in hwdb-client (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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