Re: gnome-control-center2: segfault on startup because no vi found?!
>> "MDC" == Mourad De Clerck <mourad@aquazul.com> writes:
> Hi,
Hi,
> I have here a fresh install of gnome2 (there's not much else on this
> laptop). When I start X, I see the splash screen - when suddenly there's
> two error windows. one empty in the background, and one saying
> gnome-settings-daemon has crashed with a segfault.
> doing an strace on it I see a whole bunch of stat's happening, where it
> looks for some kind of editor (gedit, vi, emacs, nedit, ...) I
> personally use mc/mcedit so I didn't have any of those installed.
> I installed nvi, and lo and behold - it works.
> A couple of things
> - why is this brain dead behaviour happening?
gnome-vfs is the guilty.
> - why does it crash because it can't find a bloody editor instead of
> giving some sensible error message
A bug ?
> - if there needs to be an editor, maybe there should be a dependency?
Not really possible, because for now only a 6 packages provides an
editor. File a bug report against libgnomevfs2-common.
Christian
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