special proc files are displayed as empty

[G. Arena]

Binary package hint: gedit

When I click on /proc/bus/usb/devices a blank page appears and I can not read the content of the file.
The same result I get if I use Nautilius.
No problem using cat /proc/bus/usb/devices.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 29 16:49:46 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
Package: gedit 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/locusernamel/sbin:/usr/locusernamel/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/gusernamemes
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/busernamesh
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-rt x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

ok that's weird, can you open the file with vim, emacs, etc?

[G. Arena (narea92)]

Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> ok that's weird, can you open the file with vim, emacs, etc?
>
> ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

Mr. Vilavincencio

As suggested by you, I tried to open the file 'devices' with vim and
with emacs.
With both editors I can read the file properly as with cat.

I want add that when I click on /proc/bus/usb, the file 'devices' is marked:
0 bytes plain text file.

I hope this is of help.

Yours,
Gaetano Arena

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

confirmed on intrepid and sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550852

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is fixed in the current karmic version

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is fixed in the current karmic version