guidedog fails if $SHELL set

Bug #124230 reported by Bob Miller
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
guidedog (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
guidedog (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Luca Falavigna

Bug Description

Binary package hint: guidedog

If you have the SHELL environment variable set to a non-Bourne-like shell (e.g., /bin/tcsh), then guidedog will fail to perform its actions.

To reproduce:

  $ apt-get install tcsh # (-:
  $ env SHELL=/bin/tcsh guidedog
  $ # or "chsh /bin/tcsh" then log out and back in
  click Enable Routing
  click Apply
  click Continue

Expected:

   guidedog enables routing.

Actual:

  An alert box appears with the message, "export: Command not found."

It appears that guidedog is sending some Bourne shell commands to whatever program $SHELL is set to. guidedog should ignore $SHELL and always use /bin/sh or /bin/bash.

guidedog is in Universe. I'm not sure whether this is the best place to report this bug. Hopefully, if it isn't, someone will yell at me -- er, constructively suggest a better course of action. (-: The Upstream, www.simonzone.com, seems dead -- the last release was in 2003.

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Fix for this and bug #217232.

Changed in guidedog:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in guidedog:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in guidedog:
assignee: nobody → dktrkranz
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) wrote :

Uploaded, thanks ;)

Changed in guidedog:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package guidedog - 1.0.0-4ubuntu2

---------------
guidedog (1.0.0-4ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Symlink .desktop file to correct location so GNOME can read it
    (LP: #217232)
  * Patch guidedog.cpp with quilt to work with non *sh shells (LP: #124230)

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:46:15 +0100

Changed in guidedog:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in guidedog:
status: New → Fix Released
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