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gcalctool package

Doesn't display total

Bug #236147 reported by TheAJKMan on 2008-05-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #202210: gcalctool has problem with big sums. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gcalctool (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gcalctool

I've just installed Ubuntu 8.04 and gcalctool 5.22.1 from one of it's packages. If I add a string of numbers together, the total isn't displayed. Didn't have this proble under 7.10 If I add each number indviually iso as a group, it then displays.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 30 20:00:16 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gcalctool
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gcalctool 5.22.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gcalctool
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

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TheAJKMan (theajkman) wrote on 2008-05-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (13.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (698 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-05-30:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

may you also provide an screenshot? thanks.

Changed in gcalctool:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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TheAJKMan (theajkman) wrote on 2008-05-30:

Screenshot1.png Edit (203.6 KiB, image/png)

Okay, sorry, thought I said it more clearly. I've taken a screen shot as requested, both of the calculator and of the spreadsheet I've working from. THe problem I was trying to describe is that in totaling all those little sums in the column marked "Net profit" I get a string of number looking something like this ........ "675+398+254+318+146+268+352+555..." When I hit the enter button to get my total, it then doesn't appear on the calculators screen at all. However, should I then just hit any of the keys as if to do another further calculation, the total I was expecting to see on the screen suddenly appears. For example, the numbers I've listed above give me a total of 2966, yet that total doesn't appear on the screen, if I then just hit the "+" key again the "answer" appears as 2966+....

Hope this helps some. It's not a major bug, just more of an annoyance. The screenshot is attached.

Thanks
Adrian Kruger

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-06-03:

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 you find.