Debian Bug report logs - #494924
elinks should not log to syslog

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral)" <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: elinks should not log to syslog

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:45:59 +0200

Package: elinks
Version: 0.11.4-2
Severity: normal

Hello,

elinks is logging some failures to syslog:

Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: *** info                                                                                                        
Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: /dev/gpmctl: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type                                                             
Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: *** info                                                                                                        
Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: /dev/gpmctl: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type                                                             
Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: *** err                                                                                                         
Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die!

elinks should send these errors to stderr (or even ignore them).

If for any reason the errors have to be logged to syslog, the syslog messages should not be translated.
("Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type" = "No such file or directory")

Best Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages elinks depends on:
ii  elinks-data            0.11.4-2          advanced text-mode WWW browser - d
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-0.1         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libexpat1              2.0.1-4           XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfsplib0             0.9-1             FSP v2 protocol stack library - sh
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.1-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpm2                1.20.4-2          General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libidn11               1.9-1             GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  liblua50               5.0.3-3           Main interpreter library for the L
ii  liblualib50            5.0.3-3           Extension library for the Lua 5.0 
ii  libperl5.10            5.10.0-11.1       Shared Perl library
ii  libruby1.8             1.8.7.22-3        Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

elinks recommends no packages.

Versions of packages elinks suggests:
pn  elinks-doc                    <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information
-- 
Nekral

Message #8 received at 494924@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <giridhar@appaji.net>

To: "Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral)" <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>, 494924@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#494924: elinks should not log to syslog

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:50:11 +0530

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reassign 494924 libgpmg1
merge 494924 479824
thanks

Hi Nicolas,

On 08/08/13 07:45 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) said ...
> elinks is logging some failures to syslog:
> 
> Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: *** info                                                                                                        
> Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: /dev/gpmctl: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type                                                             
> Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: *** info                                                                                                        
> Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: /dev/gpmctl: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type                                                             
> Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: *** err                                                                                                         
> Aug 13 06:43:13 nekral elinks: Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die!
> 
> elinks should send these errors to stderr (or even ignore them).
> 
> If for any reason the errors have to be logged to syslog, the syslog messages should not be translated.
> ("Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type" = "No such file or directory")

These messages from the gpm library which elinks uses and not from elinks.

Reassigning as such.

Cheers,

Giridhar

-- 
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://appaji.net/

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Message #23 received at 494924-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: 494924-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#494924: fixed in gpm 1.20.4-3

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:32:06 +0000

Source: gpm
Source-Version: 1.20.4-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gpm, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gpm_1.20.4-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.20.4-3.diff.gz
gpm_1.20.4-3.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.20.4-3.dsc
gpm_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/gpm_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
libgpm-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpm-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
libgpm2_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpm2_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
libgpmg1-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gpm/libgpmg1-dev_1.20.4-3_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 494924@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> (supplier of updated gpm package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:36:14 +0200
Source: gpm
Binary: gpm libgpm2 libgpm-dev libgpmg1-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.20.4-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian GPM Team <pkg-gpm-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Description: 
 gpm        - General Purpose Mouse interface
 libgpm-dev - General Purpose Mouse - development files
 libgpm2    - General Purpose Mouse - shared library
 libgpmg1-dev - transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
Closes: 469933 479474 479824 480070 488053 490895 492954 493168 494924
Changes: 
 gpm (1.20.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Remove myself from Uploaders.
   * Group related patches:
     - debian/patches/030_daemon_quit: Rename to ...
     - debian/patches/020_daemon_quit_noverbose.patch: ... this.
   * Demote syslog message when the gpmctl node cannot be opened to debugging
     output, that's the case when gpm is not running. And change libgpm to not
     log into syslog debugging messages. (Closes: #469933, #479474, #479824)
     (Closes: #480070, #488053, #490895, #492954, #494924)
     Thanks to Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>.
     - debian/patches/015_libgpm_noverbose.patch: Replace with ...
     - debian/patches/021_libgpm_dev_gpmctl_debug_msg.patch: ... this.
     - debian/patches/022_libgpm_no_log_debug_msg.patch: New file.
   * Fix a segfault on startup produced by an off-by-one error when accessing
     the console information array due to a missmatch between some files
     using the kernel and others the gpm definition for the number of
     supported consoles. (Closes: #493168)
     Thanks to Nico Schottelius <nico-debian-pkg-gpm-devel@schottelius.org>
     and Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>.
     - debian/patches/031_max_consoles.patch: New file.
   * Update Catalan debconf translation.
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