On Mon, Jun 10, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > On 2013-06-10 19:53, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more useful to provide the temporary workaround of >> >> sudo apt-get install python-gudev gir1.2-gudev-1.0 -y > Your ppa makes a big improvement of usb-creator-gtk :-) It probably > works more or less without issues to create standard live USB drives > without persistence. > But I think it is still flaky, particularly the 64-bit version. > Remember that Julien got segfault, when he tested it. Also the 32-bit > version can misbehave, unless the system and USB drive are well > prepared. OK... I'm just concerned that once we turn people off usb-creator-gtk, it is hard to persuade them to come back it... so the bugfix work is not even tried by all the folks we have told not to use usb-creator-gtk. > I have not been able to file a bug about the segfault. It does not > activate apport. How could I do it? If you get a core dump file (make sure ulimit is not set to 0 for core files), you can run something like apport-bug -f -p usb-creator-gtk and then attach a GDB backtrace from the core to the bug report. But in general apport "should" catch segfault crashes, as far as I know. > I have a question: did you do anything else than adding those > libraries? No, nothing else at all. > And are your packages the same (version) as what would be installed in > - an original 13.04 system without any updates? > - a fully updated 13.04 system? Yes. As far as I know 0.2.47 is what should be installed in both cases. > As I wrote in one of the mails, it feels like usb-creator-gtk has > improved compared to when I started testing it with those two (same?) > libraries in an installed system. Or am I only using it in a more > consistent way to produce good persistent drives? I think that's something about your system or the way you are using it. > But if you think it reduces the chances to get usb-creator-gtk > debugged, I will remove the 'temporary edit' about it from the wiki > and from the tutorial. I'm not an expert on publicity and writing good web sites :) Maybe the wiki page should suggest installing those two packages, and say something like If you still have problems with usb-creator-gtk after installing these two additional packages, as a temporary workaround, you can try using usb-creator-kde instead. In the end, if you make the changes to the wiki page, they need to say what you are comfortable saying... so it is your choice. Jonathan -- Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
