From kfm-devel Thu Jan 20 15:33:00 2000 From: owner () bugs ! kde ! org (Stephan Kulow) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:33:00 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Bug#2524: marked as done (KFM crashes when you try to look at the permissions of a special file.) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=94838246513872 Your message dated Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:27:33 -0000 with message-id and subject line KFM crashes when you try to look at the permissions of a spec ial file. has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Stephan Kulow (administrator, KDE bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.kde.org; 19 Jan 2000 00:31:34 +0000 From bmead@surfree.com Wed Jan 19 01:31:34 2000 Received: from c008-h017.c008.sfo.cp.net ([209.228.14.206]:5360 "HELO c008.sfo.cp.net") by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de with SMTP id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:31:17 +0100 Received: (cpmta 15906 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 16:31:14 -0800 Received: from ip166.tucson3.az.pub-ip.psi.net (HELO localhost.localdomain) (38.29.63.166) by smtp.surfree.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2000 16:31:14 -0800 X-Sent: 19 Jan 2000 00:31:14 GMT From: Barry Mead Reply-To: bmead@surfree.com To: submit@bugs.kde.org Subject: KFM crashes when you try to look at the permissions of a special file. Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 17:20:18 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00011817304402.00530@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;submit@bugs.kde.org I have tried this bug on RedHat 5.2 with kde versions 1.1 and 1.1.1. I have tried it for RedHat 6.0 with kde 1.1.1, and Mandrake 6.0 with kde versions 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. The bug is present in all of the above versions and distributions. I also check both the KFM bug report logs and the Overall KDE bug report logs and found no previous mention of this bug. Using the KFM go to the /dev directory and right click on any device file. Try to view the permissions, and KDE crashes. I suspect that KFM does not know how to handle the additional attributes of a special file, and does not properly extract only the permission information for display. I simply go around the problem by using ls -l in a console box to find/change the permissions for special files. I suspect that some novice users will not find it so easy to get around the bug so it would be nice to have it fixed someday. Thanks Again for working so hard and creating such a wonderful desktop environment. The thing I admire most about KDE is the logical intuitive and clean design. Things seem to be almost effortless. Gnome on the other hand is always popping up a rediculus number of windows that you have to close and it is a lot of work to get anything done.