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Command execution via --execute='' is broken

Bug #1324577 reported by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff on 2014-05-29

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Terminal	Fix Released	High	Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff	Terminal 0.3.1

Bug Description

Command execution via --execute='' is broken!

Steps to reproduce:
$ pantheon-terminal --execute='/bin/cat'

Expected: blank terminal waiting for input.
Actual results: either a terminal window appears but closes instantly, or it appears with a blank shell prompt, as if no command execution was requested.

This is observed both on Luna, version 0.2.4.1-0~r528+pkg19~ubuntu12.04.1, and Isis, version 0.3.0.1, and even on Debian.

A screencast demonstrating the issue on pantheon-terminal and the correct behavior on xfce4-terminal is attached.

Related branches

lp:~xanderfomin/pantheon-terminal/fix-1324577

Rejected for merging into lp:~elementary-apps/pantheon-terminal/trunk

elementary Apps team: Pending requested 2014-05-31

lp:~elementary-apps/pantheon-terminal/fix-1324577-with-cleanup

Merged into lp:~elementary-apps/pantheon-terminal/trunk at revision 577

David Gomes (community): Approve on 2014-06-04

Alexander Fomin (community): Approve on 2014-06-04

Revision history for this message

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote on 2014-05-29:

Screencast of the problem Edit (10.7 MiB, video/mp4)

Changed in pantheon-terminal:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → High

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2014-05-29

Changed in pantheon-terminal:
milestone:	none → isis-beta2

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dkotrada (dkotrada) wrote on 2014-05-29:

Mayby that log output will help. Who knows.

Starte externes Werkzeug '/usr/bin/pantheon-terminal' -geom 123x28+300+316 -e vi "/tmp/PastebinCompyth_z13174.txt" +2
[94m[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 20:43:04.991235][0m Application.vala:77: Pantheon Terminal version: 0.2.4.1
[94m[_LOG_LEVEL_INFO 20:43:04.991277][0m Application.vala:79: Kernel version: 3.2.0-60-generic
[92m[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 20:43:04.992865][0m Settings.vala:158: Loading settings from schema 'org.pantheon.terminal.saved-state'
[92m[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 20:43:04.993481][0m Settings.vala:158: Loading settings from schema 'org.pantheon.terminal.settings'
[92m[_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG 20:43:05.206568][0m [Gtk] Connecting to session manager
pantheon-terminal: ERROR: Unbekannte Option -geom

'/usr/bin/pantheon-terminal' beendet

Alexander Fomin (xanderfomin) on 2014-05-31

Changed in pantheon-terminal:
assignee:	nobody → Alexander Fomin (xanderfomin)
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Alexander Fomin (xanderfomin) wrote on 2014-05-31:

There was a problem in process_argv() method for commands that consist from one string.
That's why any command like "cat" or "ls" was doomed to fail.
Note that commands like "sudo cat" worked fine.

Fix proposed for merge.

Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) on 2014-06-04