No result for ping in Gnome-Nettool

[François Tissandier]

Binary package hint: gnome-nettool

SRU JUSTIFICATION:
This is a minor patch that affects only the gnome-nettool application, and only its Ping tab. Regression potential is minimal to null, given that the new matching strings should catch both the old and new cases; so a new package taken on an older release (or a new release that reverts ping's behaviour in outputted data) should still work.

TEST CASES:
- Open gnome-nettool, switch to the Ping tab.
- Try to ping the local machine: enter "127.0.0.1" in the address combo box.
- Click the Ping button.

On a successful test, ping requests should pass and return values and draw bar graphs for results.
On a failed test, ping requests should not move, statistics remain not updated.

----

Slighty different problem from the previous bug reports:
Gnome-nettools does not crash, but no results are displayed.
If ran from a terminal, here it is the output (I removed a bunch of duplicated Gtk-CRITICAL errors) :

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
command: /bin/ping ping -b -c 5 -n www.yahoo.Fr

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text: assertion `text != NULL' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text: assertion `text != NULL' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text: assertion `text != NULL' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text: assertion `text != NULL' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text: assertion `text != NULL' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

[François Tissandier (baloo)]

Some complementary info:

on Maverick, up to date

[deepak_pm (dpkpm007)]

When ping in terminal works for me . But not works with Gnome-Nettool

[Tony Wood (toekneewood)]

Looks like other people are getting this problem as "audit" logged it in the Ubuntu Forum --->>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10097175#post10097175

[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

This affects me as well. Ping works in the terminal but not the GUI.

[Grzegorz Cieslewski (grzegorz-gmail)]

I am experiencing this bug as well.

[Guy (guy-b)]

Here the same on Lucid 10.4.1 up to date. Ping works in gui but by closing Gnome-Nettool I receive the errors.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This is known upstream and the bug for that is: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634749
comment there:

"The output from iputils-ping looks like this:
  64 bytes from window.gnome.org (209.132.180.167): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=170
ms

Since gnome-nettool looks for icmp_seq, not icmp_req, it discards all output
and considers ping fails."

[johnmay (jshall42)]

This issue affects me as well.

I am not sure how the information I have could change the priority, or even if the two are related, though I suspect.

I configured my guest XP on virtualbox to share the internet connection it has with a wnda3100 v2 usb adapter.
Since no 64 bit drivers were written, ndiswrapper does not help to connect straight to 10.10

I was able to then ping outside hosts from my ubuntu client. However I was not able to get firefox to recognize any external addresses. (ping virtual default gateway, physical default gateway and google)

I ma using 64 bit 10.10, and sharing the USB connection is the closest I have gotten to having my wireless sub supplying a connection to my meerkat host.

OSI would say layer three of four?

Seems that fixing this bug might allow for a large portion of wireless connection devices to be ubuntuble.
Definitely interested in any progress and information regarding the issue.

[sonicsteve (slougheed-bcs)]

Same problem here,

I have thread in the forums about this also.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10362988#post10362988

I would love to find a work around for this other than the terminal. I like the saved ping history since I ping the same thing quite often in my network support. Terminal works and is fine but I like the nettools I hope they get this sorted soon.

[rod singleton (rod40cool)]

This bug affects me too. Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit.
Network Tools 2.31.6
Ping doesn't work where the same ping in a terminal does.
rod@rods-t400:~$ uname -a
Linux rods-t400 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Ron Lusk (luskwater)]

I've submitted a patch at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634749 which involves adding a non-capturing scanf directive to the PING_FORMAT declarations. (I've been able to test that the linux branch of the code should work—in a separate program—but unable to build gnome-nettool because of a package I can't find.)

[Ron Lusk (luskwater)]

Apologies for the duplicate entry: I wanted to give GroundControl a try, and figured I'd use it on something I was familiar with.

[Mark Garrow (scunizi)]

I also suffer from this bug. 64 bit 10.10 ... also following but #662947 which is marked as a duplicate of this but those commenting on that thread seem to think it's different for some reason..

[Eugene Horohorin (genixoid)]

Ubuntu 11.04 (Beta), ping is not working from UI and working well in terminal.

[Scott Palmer (skewty)]

@Gary M:
     Why did you remove the Natty tag?
     This bug is still present in Natty 11.04 beta 2.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Folks from the desktop team could somebody have a look to this? I've tried the patch from the upstream bug and it works fine.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Just checked and tested it and it looks fine to me; I'll prepare updated packages for Maverick and Natty.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is already in 3.0.0 which is in oneiric.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Martin, yeah, that's because I was too slow at poking someone for review, and in the meantime 3.0.0 was merged in. I'm working on the SRU updates now.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I've uploaded the changes to maverick-proposed/natty-proposed now

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted gnome-nettool into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted gnome-nettool into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Wally Arms (armsw-crescent)]

works now, thanks for the fix

[jjinco33 (jedadiah-williams)]

Works now. Thanks.

2011/5/21 Wally Arms <email address hidden>

> works now, thanks for the fix
>
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[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Wally, jjinco33, and possibly others who tried, could you confirm which release you tested the fix on, since it was uploaded to Natty and Maverick. Ideally, we'd need one confirmation that this work for each of Maverick and Natty.

[jjinco33 (jedadiah-williams)]

Natty for me.

Sent from my HTC Evo
On May 21, 2011 3:20 PM, "Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre" <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Wally, jjinco33, and possibly others who tried, could you confirm which
> release you tested the fix on, since it was uploaded to Natty and
> Maverick. Ideally, we'd need one confirmation that this work for each of
> Maverick and Natty.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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[sonicsteve (slougheed-bcs)]

Works on Maverick for me. Thanks, it's great to have the tool back.

On 11-05-21 05:11 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> Wally, jjinco33, and possibly others who tried, could you confirm which
> release you tested the fix on, since it was uploaded to Natty and
> Maverick. Ideally, we'd need one confirmation that this work for each of
> Maverick and Natty.
>

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks all for testing. Marking Natty and Maverick as verification-done

[Bob Fletcher (robert-h-fletcher)]

I have the same problem with Network Tools on newly installed Ubuntu 11.04

[Wally Arms (armsw-crescent)]

Worked on Natty for me, sorry I forgot to mention that.

Bob if you change your update manager to include the
Pre-released updates (Natty-proposed) you should get the update.

2011/5/27 Bob Fletcher <email address hidden>

> I have the same problem with Network Tools on newly installed Ubuntu
> 11.04
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (662947).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663014
>
> Title:
> No result for ping in Gnome-Nettool
>
> Status in GNOME Nettool:
> New
> Status in OEM Priority Project:
> New
> Status in “gnome-nettool” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-nettool” source package in Maverick:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “gnome-nettool” source package in Natty:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-nettool
>
> SRU JUSTIFICATION:
> This is a minor patch that affects only the gnome-nettool application, and
> only its Ping tab. Regression potential is minimal to null, given that the
> new matching strings should catch both the old and new cases; so a new
> package taken on an older release (or a new release that reverts ping's
> behaviour in outputted data) should still work.
>
> TEST CASES:
> - Open gnome-nettool, switch to the Ping tab.
> - Try to ping the local machine: enter "127.0.0.1" in the address combo
> box.
> - Click the Ping button.
>
> On a successful test, ping requests should pass and return values and draw
> bar graphs for results.
> On a failed test, ping requests should not move, statistics remain not
> updated.
>
> ----
>
> Slighty different problem from the previous bug reports:
> Gnome-nettools does not crash, but no results are displayed.
> If ran from a terminal, here it is the output (I removed a bunch of
> duplicated Gtk-CRITICAL errors) :
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> command: /bin/ping ping -b -c 5 -n www.yahoo.Fr
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `G...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-nettool - 2.31.6-0ubuntu1.1

---------------
gnome-nettool (2.31.6-0ubuntu1.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/0001-ping-Handle-output-with-icmp_req.patch: fix ping format
    parsing so we get back the results in the UI. (LP: #663014)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Wed, 18 May 2011 16:09:45 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-nettool - 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1

---------------
gnome-nettool (2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/0001-ping-Handle-output-with-icmp_req.patch: fix ping format
    parsing so we get back the results in the UI. (LP: #663014)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Wed, 18 May 2011 15:24:29 -0400

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Ping is working properly again. Thanks to all of you for your effort.

[Ron Lusk (luskwater)]

Great to hear it works again. Yes, thank you all for your help and your
patience.

Ron
On May 30, 2011 9:56 AM, "Alberto Salvia Novella" <email address hidden>
wrote:
> Ping is working properly again. Thanks to all of you for your effort.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663014
>
> Title:
> No result for ping in Gnome-Nettool
>
> Status in GNOME Nettool:
> New
> Status in OEM Priority Project:
> New
> Status in “gnome-nettool” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-nettool” source package in Maverick:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-nettool” source package in Natty:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-nettool
>
> SRU JUSTIFICATION:
> This is a minor patch that affects only the gnome-nettool application, and
only its Ping tab. Regression potential is minimal to null, given that the
new matching strings should catch both the old and new cases; so a new
package taken on an older release (or a new release that reverts ping's
behaviour in outputted data) should still work.
>
> TEST CASES:
> - Open gnome-nettool, switch to the Ping tab.
> - Try to ping the local machine: enter "127.0.0.1" in the address combo
box.
> - Click the Ping button.
>
> On a successful test, ping requests should pass and return values and draw
bar graphs for results.
> On a failed test, ping requests should not move, statistics remain not
updated.
>
> ----
>
> Slighty different problem from the previous bug reports:
> Gnome-nettools does not crash, but no results are displayed.
> If ran from a terminal, here it is the output (I removed a bunch of
duplicated Gtk-CRITICAL errors) :
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> command: /bin/ping ping -b -c 5 -n www.yahoo.Fr
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_entry_set_text:
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
> (gnome-nettool:9846): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_get_toplevel:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
>
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