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Offline hiro

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gparted bug in startup script
« on: August 30, 2016, 05:01:11 PM »
startup script uses
if test "z`ps -e | grep gpartedbin`" != "z"; then                   
ps -e doesn't exist on standard tinycorelinux so this will match against itself in the ps output, thus gparted is not started.

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2016, 07:47:28 AM »
adjusted "ps -e" -> "ps" in sbin/gparted and reposted - thanks

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2016, 12:22:34 PM »
Doesn't it also need "grep -v grep" to filter the grep calls out?
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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2016, 06:57:48 PM »
i agree with curaga

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2016, 01:48:38 AM »
Could you give an example of exactly the line you'd like to see in the script (I realise there are four of them).

I'd suggest you also report this as a bug to gparted.

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2016, 05:00:06 AM »
replace all ps -e | grep bla
with
ps | grep bla | grep -v grep

here it should be:
if test "z`ps | grep gpartedbin | grep -v grep`" != "z"; then

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2016, 10:13:22 AM »
re-modified and posted

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2016, 11:18:56 AM »
/usr/local/share/applications/gparted.desktop  seems to have a bad  Exec=  entry.
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Exec= /usr/local/sbin/gparted %f
should be
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Exec=sudo /usr/local/sbin/gparted

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And it has no  X-FullPathIcon= .
« Last Edit: September 04, 2016, 11:21:20 AM by Misalf »
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Offline Juanito

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2016, 01:01:18 PM »
There's been a few conversations about this - basically there's no desktop icon to make it a little harder to make a big mistake with gparted - see info file.

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2016, 01:20:30 PM »
Aha, I see.
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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2016, 04:45:25 PM »
There's been a few conversations about this - basically there's no desktop icon to make it a little harder to make a big mistake with gparted - see info file.
But where's the fun in that! :p

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2016, 04:31:37 AM »
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The process gpartedbin is already running.
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Hi!
Could you please fix 'gparted.tcz' for 'v7.2 x86_64' too?

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2016, 08:01:18 AM »
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@Hiro - did you ever report this to gparted?

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Re: gparted bug in startup script
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2016, 09:22:03 AM »
no, i find the whole script overly badly written, platform specific and rather pointless, so apart from fixing our special case i didn't want to get engaged in this.