Catfish cannot run on the live CD

[warren]

1) Lubuntu 12.10 Daily ISO dated August 26, 2012 i686
2 )catfish 0.4.01
3) In Lubuntu: Accessories/Catsish file search the applet should then open the catfish file search.
4) Nothing no response no applet gui on the desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: catfish 0.4.0.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.321
Date: Sun Aug 26 19:45:22 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha i386 (20120826)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: catfish
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

warren: I think that screenshot was supposed to go on bug #1041941

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1041929

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Ah, that's fairly straightforward. To save space, we exclude .pyc files from the live CD's filesystem. They are re-created on install.

The problem is in /usr/bin/catfish. It should probably be modified to *only* look in /usr/share/catfish

#!/usr/bin/env bash

APPNAME=catfish

if [ -e $APPNAME.pyc ]
    then python $APPNAME.pyc "$@"
    else
        if [ -e $APPNAME.py ]
            then python $APPNAME.py "$@"
            else
                cd /usr/share/$APPNAME
                python $APPNAME.pyc "$@"
        fi
    fi

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

I've got a fix into Launchpad, will have a release before the end of the week.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

I assume you are referring to catfish upstream. Adding a task.

BTW, we don't tend to use Fix Committed on ubuntu tasks. Either something has been released in the development release, or it hasn't.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package catfish - 0.4.0.2-0ubuntu1

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catfish (0.4.0.2-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * New upstream bugfix release, including:
    - updated Russian translation of the desktop file lp: #592370
    - find in a symlinked folder does not return folder content lp: #893549
    - critical error while searching for expression lp: #536880
    - Catfish cannot run on the live CD lp: #1041929
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:02:10 +0200