don't ignore OobsResult in a callback function
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-system-tools (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Brian Murray | ||
Utopic |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Brian Murray |
Bug Description
[Impact]
Users don't receive any info about the errors in the backends (liboobs and system-
It's already fixed in Debian and Ubuntu 15.04, but the package remains unpatched in 14.04 and 14.10.
The attached patch makes users-admin show the message dialog with the description of the error that happened.
[Test Case]
You'll need unpatched versions of liboobs (3.0.0-1) and system-
Run users-admin from the terminal. You'll see a warning message in the terminal:
Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error communicating asynchronously with the backends: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 255
But the users-admin GUI won't show this message - that's the bug.
[Regression Potential]
I consider the regression risk to be low here. The patch has been already tested by me and gnome-system-tools maintainer in Debian (see the corresponding Debian bug report).
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Utopic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Utopic): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
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