fslint-gui does not report duplicates with big files list

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: fslint

Version is 2.24-1.

The media I am trying fslint-gui on is an external 500GB USB drive formatted as ext3.

There are ~350K files in 380GB of data (pictures, text files, etc).

fslint-gui does not provide a list of duplicate files, it stops processing and shows this mesage in the status window:
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: int argument required

In the console, the following message appeared four times:
(fslint-gui:14884): atk-bridge-WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.

I'd be willing to test any package when/if this is addressed.

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Can you try with the latest version 2.26 (which is in debian testing BTW).
I fixed up a couple of issues in this area. You can download the ubuntu package from:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/

Note if it does display the duplicate files but also reports errors,
I would be interested in seeing those errors as it may indicate
lower level issues still in fslint.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Pádraig Brady <email address hidden> wrote:

> Can you try with the latest version 2.26 (which is in debian testing BTW).
> I fixed up a couple of issues in this area. You can download the ubuntu
> package from:
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/

Thanks for providing such an easy/clean way of testing the latest release.
I've installed it and I have launched the same operation on the same media.
I'll report back later today.

[marpada (marpada)]

Same problem in a big ntfs partition. The following message appears in the message window (no error in console tough) :

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: int argument required

The process is aborted and no duplicated files found.

Debian lenny (testing)
fslint 2.26-2
ntfs-3g 1:1.2310-1 (checked also with 1:1.2506-1)

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

an "int argument required" error can only happen from printf format interpolation I think.
I.E. you've get this error if you do this in python: "%d" % None
There is only 1 possible place in the code I think that that could happen,
though I can't see yet how this path could be triggered.

To that end I would really appreciate if you could follow the instructions
for running the "Generic Source Code" version from the corresponding section of
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ Either version 2.26 or 2.27 is Ok.
Apply the attached patch before running, and it should give a more informative error.

thanks.

[marpada (marpada)]

Downloaded 2.26 and patch applied. Now the search seems to finish ok, and these messages appear in the message window:

groupWaste=3221225472L groupSize=2 size=3221225472L
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: int argument required

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Thanks a million. You're test was very helpful.
It shows that there are issues formatting very large numbers using %d.
This is in fact a python bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue1742669

I'll push out a work around asap.

[Pádraig Brady (p-draigbrady)]

Fix committed upstream:
http://code.google.com/p/fslint/source/detail?r=162

[marpada (marpada)]

Thank you very much for your great tool and you support !!

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Sorry I couldn't get back to testing this sooner. Yesterday I installed the 2.26-1 package and I am still getting this message in the status window of fslint-gui after checking for duplicates on the same volume I originally mentioned (500GB):
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: int argument required

The console doesn't show any output (error or else), though.

I will try building the package for 2.27 and test again. It would be nice if the 2.27 package was provided from the site.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Ok, this took a rather long time but 2.27 went through my files and reported a (rather long) list of duplicates.

I am attaching the package I created from source, following the instructions at http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ .

Hopefully this will make it into Intrepid.

Thank you!