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tomboy package

tomboy help content not available

Bug #667736 reported by Adi Roiban on 2010-10-28

This bug affects 10 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
OEM Priority Project	Fix Released	Medium	Chris Van Hoof
Natty	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Oneiric	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
tomboy (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Ayan George
Natty	Fix Released	Medium	Ayan George

Bug Description

SRU Justificaiton
-----------------

Impact:

This bug prevents users to utilize the tomboy notes help feature. This bug is masked if you have the gtk development libraries because the library it installs satisfies mono's built-in library mapping heuristics.

Fix:

The default tomboy dllmap file must be changed to properly associate libglib-2.0.dll to libglib-2.0.so.0.

Patch:

Attached to this bug is a patch that implements the fix. This patch applies to the 1.6.0 version of tomboy notes.

Regression Potential:

There should be very little potential for regression.

TEST CASE:

* On a nearly fresh install of natty, run tomboy notes. You must not have libgtk-dev installed.
* Activate the notes panel icon and select help.

You should see a dialog that says, 'The "Tomboy Notes Manual" could not be found. Please verify that your installation has been completed fully.'

Binary package hint: tomboy

If I choose the "Help" item from the Tomboy menu I get an error message that the help was not found.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: tomboy 1.4.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 28 14:33:36 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100923)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomboy

See original description

Tags:

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/natty-proposed/tomboy

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Adi Roiban (adiroiban) wrote on 2010-10-28:

Dependencies.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Robert Roth (evfool) on 2010-11-11

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-01-25:

On Natty, alias 11.04 with Tomboy 1.5.2 this issue is gone, the help appears as expected.

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Greg A (etulfetulf) wrote on 2011-03-11:

Unlike Robert I still see this on Natty. Additionally clicking on the Tomboy Indicator Applet and then Help produces the same error.

Version: 1.5.2-1ubuntu4

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Greg A (etulfetulf) wrote on 2011-03-11:

Screenshot-Untitled Window.png Edit (12.4 KiB, image/png)

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Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) wrote on 2011-06-20:

@Ayan -- Mind taking a look at this one to see what the culprit might be? This is reproducible on Natty fully updated.

Changed in oem-priority:
assignee:	nobody → Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof)
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ayan George (ayan)
Changed in oem-priority:
importance:	Undecided → Low
importance:	Low → Medium
Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Confirmed → New

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Ayan George (ayan) wrote on 2011-06-27:

I've verified this bug under a fresh install of Natty.

It appears to be a library mapping.

If you run tomboy with debug flag (by setting TOMBOY_TRACE), you see that DllNotFoundException is thrown when you try to open help:

ayan@sierra:~$ export TOMBOY_TRACE=true
ayan@sierra:~$ tomboy
** Running Mono with --debug --trace=true **
[0x7f9c3e8e8760:] EXCEPTION handling: ArgumentException
[0x7f9c3e8e8760:] EXCEPTION handling: ArgumentException
[0x7f9c3e8e8760:] EXCEPTION handling: GException
[INFO 04:39:53.669] Initializing Mono.Addins
[0x7f9c3e8e8760:] EXCEPTION handling: DllNotFoundException

strace shows that this happens after trying to open libglib-2.0.dll.la:

open("libglib-2.0.dll.la", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(1, "[0x7f9aa0ffe760:] EXCEPTION handling: DllNotFoundException\n", 59) = 59

I think mono tries to resolve this by looking for libglib-2.0.so which is in the ldconfig cache:

ayan@sierra:~$ ldconfig -p | grep libglib-2.0
libglib-2.0.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0 (libc6) => /lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so (libc6) => /lib32/libglib-2.0.so

So it should work!

http://www.mono-project.com/DllNotFoundException has good debugging information. I'll continue to debug.

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Ayan George (ayan) wrote on 2011-06-27:

Adding the following line to /etc/mono/config is a work-around. I'm not sure if it is the right thing to do however:

Ayan George (ayan) on 2011-06-28

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Ayan George (ayan) wrote on 2011-06-28:

tomboy.patch Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain)

Ayan George (ayan) on 2011-06-29

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu Natty):
assignee:	nobody → Ayan George (ayan)

Ayan George (ayan) on 2011-06-29

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu Natty):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Ayan George (ayan) on 2011-06-29

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu Natty):
status:	New → Fix Released
status:	Fix Released → In Progress

Ayan George (ayan) on 2011-06-30

description:

updated

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2011-07-05:

Uploaded into natty-proposed/unapproved. Thanks for your contribution. I made 3 small fixes to the changelog.

  - target natty-proposed instead of natty
  - explain the additional BDs you added
  - Add (LP: #667736) so that the upload closes this bug

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu Natty):
status:	In Progress → Triaged

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2011-07-07:

#10

SRU team ack. Please accept the more recent upload (with appropriate LP foo) into natty-proposed and reject the other upload.

Note that this class of bugs should be caught during package build with the new cli-common 0.8 in Oneiric, so we should be seeing fewer of these problems from now on.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-07-11: Please test proposed package

#11

Hello Adi, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tomboy 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!

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu Natty):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
tags:	added: verification-needed

Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) on 2011-07-11

Changed in oem-priority:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) on 2011-07-18

summary:

- help content not available
+ tomboy help content not available

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Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) wrote on 2011-09-12:

#12

Confirmed this fixes things up by enabling proposed and installing tomboy on Natty

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2011-09-19

tags:

added: testcase

Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof) on 2011-09-26

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-09-29:

#13

This bug was fixed in the package tomboy - 1.6.0-0ubuntu4

---------------
tomboy (1.6.0-0ubuntu4) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/01_dllmaps.patch:
    - Tomboy/Tomboy.exe.config.in: Corrected the libglib dllmap entry
      to resolve correctly. (LP: #667736)
  * debian/control:
    - Add missing Build-Depends on libsyncdaemon and libproxy so that the
      shlibs can be resolved to proper dependencies.
-- Ayan George <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:44:15 -0400