[Bug 502572] New: DOSbox installed onto KDE menu does not get $home as working/launch directory

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 Summary: DOSbox installed onto KDE menu does not get $home as working/launch directory Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: 64bit OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Applications AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: roland@logikalsolutions.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Opera/9.64 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.1.1 If you install DOSbox, it gets an entry on the KDE menu. If you run DOSbox from this entry, the configuration does not fill in any value for the launch directory. When you run CONFIG -writeconf abc.conf it completes successfully, but sends the output to the bit bucket. Launch DOSbox from the command line in a terminal, and you will find the output written to the directory you launched from. This is an installation bug. The menu entry should be using $home for the user as the launch directory. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open KDE menu, type DOS in the search bar 2.Click on DOSbox entry 3.type CONFIG -writeconf abc.conf Actual Results: No error message received. 4. Open a terminal window and do a find across your entire system for abc.conf, it won't be found. Expected Results: abc.conf should have been written to $home or some other user writeable directory. 5. Use same terminal window and switch back to home directory. 6. Launch DOSbox from terminal 7. type CONFIG -writeconf abc.conf 8. You can now find the file. This is going to cause a lot of spastic problems with applications. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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15 May 15 May

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New subject: [Bug 502572] DOSbox installed onto KDE menu does not get $home as working/launch directory

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User sven.burmeister@gmx.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c1 Sven Burmeister changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |sven.burmeister@gmx.net Info Provider| |roland@logikalsolutions.com --- Comment #1 from Sven Burmeister 2009-05-15 09:55:07 MDT --- Is dosbox a KDe app? If not the maintainer of that package should be assigned to this report. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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26 May 26 May

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 Lubos Lunak changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Component|KDE4 Applications |Other Info Provider|roland@logikalsolutions.com | AssignedTo|kde-maintainers@suse.de |lnussel@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User lnussel@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c2 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |lnussel@novell.com Component|Other |KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo|lnussel@novell.com |kde-maintainers@suse.de --- Comment #2 from Ludwig Nussel 2009-05-26 09:29:04 MDT --- works fine on kde3 so probably a kde4 bug. You can find out the current working directory by running l /proc/`pidof dosbox`/cwd -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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2 Jun 2 Jun

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User llunak@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c3 Lubos Lunak changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |roland@logikalsolutions.com --- Comment #3 from Lubos Lunak 2009-06-02 06:43:47 MDT --- I cannot confirm, applications are run in either $HOME/Documents or alternatively in $HOME here. What is the path for dosbox in your case? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User roland@logikalsolutions.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c4 Roland Hughes changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|roland@logikalsolutions.com | --- Comment #4 from Roland Hughes 2009-06-02 10:01:14 MDT --- How can you NOT confirm??? Every person who has tried this has had the EXACT SAME PROBLEM! click on the little lizard, type DOS in the search, then click on DOSBox to launch. Inside of the DOS window at the Z prompt type: config -writeconf abc.conf then type DIR you won't see the file. Open a regular terminal window and sudo find -name abc.conf it will not be found. Start DOSBOX from that same terminal window, conduct the same experiment, and you will be able to find your abc.conf file. This is a bug which can be confirmed each and every time by each and every user who tries it. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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3 Jun 3 Jun

08:27

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User llunak@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c5 Lubos Lunak changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |roland@logikalsolutions.com --- Comment #5 from Lubos Lunak 2009-06-03 02:27:43 MDT --- I cannot confirm that dosbox is run in a non-writeable directory. See comment #3 again. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User roland@logikalsolutions.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c6 --- Comment #6 from Roland Hughes 2009-06-03 07:03:55 MDT --- Well, you could actually test it since it has been 100% confirmable by _everyone_ that has tried. Of course, you have to follow the test instructions. Give me instructions on how to tell you what directory it is using FROM THE Z PROMPT, NOT THE LINUX SIDE OF LIFE and I will get you the information you request. If you cannot confirm this bug, you are launching it from the command line instead of the menu. When launched from the menu, it doesn't have a $home value and appears to go to the NUL device. If it was a non-writable device it would error out trying to write. It is missing a configuration value when run from the KDE menu. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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4 Jun 4 Jun

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New subject: [Bug 502572] DOSbox installed onto KDE menu does not get $home as working/launch directory

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User remur@gmx.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c7 Karsten König changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |remur@gmx.net --- Comment #7 from Karsten König 2009-06-04 17:09:53 MDT --- I can't confirm either, I did the exact stets you provided, abc.conf got dumped into ~/Documents first, when I moved that to see if it fails afterwards it just used ~ as directory, exactly as Lubos explained. You can't see the configuration file with DIR because your home or ~/Documents isn't mounted to Z:, not even if started from command line, and yes, I did it both ways, even digged out my vanilla 11.1 vbox as I use KDE4.2 on my regular machine. Who are all the people who can confirm this? Why aren't they here? Why do write in such an unfriendly tone? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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5 Jun 5 Jun

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User roland@logikalsolutions.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c8 Roland Hughes changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|roland@logikalsolutions.com | --- Comment #8 from Roland Hughes 2009-06-04 18:37:50 MDT ---

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Who are all the people who can confirm this? Why aren't they here?

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Why do write in such an unfriendly tone? Because I've been in IT over 20 years and when a support person given detailed step by step reproduction instructions which have been independently confirmed says "can't duplicate" it is highly offensive. It means they didn't try or

Because they are all in the DOSbox project/forum and they confirmed this bug happens only in OpenSuSE because the RPM doesn't set up the correct parameters when launched from the menu. that they didn't follow the instructions. I even tried with my fresh install of OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit and all updates applied. Same results. My guess is one of two things: You two, the only two I've found who claim it works on OpenSuSE 64-bit 11.1, have something else installed which is adding an entry to an "rc" file in kde4/share/config or .kde/share/config which is allowing it to work. The rest of us aren't installing that, or have removed the item(s) due to other bugs it/they caused. Just about everybody on the planet has removed the [paths] section from kde4/share/config/kdeglobals because it hoses up Dolphin. Do you both still have this section in that file? If so, is Dolphin going to your Documents directory instead of your home? Take that section out. Dolphin will now work correctly and I bet you can reproduce the problem. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User zrrr@bk.ru added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c9 Rudolf Zolotov changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zrrr@bk.ru --- Comment #9 from Rudolf Zolotov 2009-06-05 02:18:53 MDT --- I am unable to reproduce this on openSUSE 11.1 32bit, so this is either 64bit problem, or I am missing something. I have done this steps: 1. Started DOSBox from KDE menu (running KDE 4.2.88 from K:K4:F:D, maybe this is a bug on openSUSE default KDE and was fixed) 2. Executed 'ls -l /proc/`pidof dosbox`/cwd' in Konsole terminal, as in comment #2. This command printed 'lrwxrwxrwx 1 eek users 0 Июн 5 11:47 /proc/8050/cwd -> /home/eek/Documents/'. '/home/eek/Documents/' is a DOSBox working directory. 3. Executed 'cd /home/eek/Documents/' in terminal. Checked, that there is no 'abc.cfg' file there. 4. In DOSBox typed 'config -writeconf abc.cfg'. There was no output. 5. Typed 'ls abc.cfg' in terminal. 'abc.cfg' was there with DOSBox config inside. I tested several times, and working directory of DOSBox was allways '/home/eek/Documents/' when started from main menu or krunner (alt+F2) or current directory, when started from terminal. Configuration file was allways created there. Btw, DOSBox complains, when it can not write file (for example, if it was started in '/usr' by normal user) with message 'Can't open file abc.cfg'. Please check comment #2 and find out, what working directory your DOSBox use. Then check, if your config file is there. I googled a bit and found one post [1] on DOSBox forum with same problem description. But topic starter there is not using 'find' command right. There is no extensions in Linux, so searching with mask 'aa*.*' will find files with name starting with 'aa' and containing dot somewhere. Since file 'aaa' does not have any dots in it's name, it can not be found. [1] http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=21576 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User lnussel@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c10 Ludwig Nussel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #10 from Ludwig Nussel 2009-06-05 03:34:59 MDT --- FWIW fresh 64bit 11.1 install in kvm (KDE 4.1+dosbox as only additional package of course) without as well as with all updates works just fine here (config written to ~/Documents). When manually messing with that kdeglobals file and removing the [Path] section the config is written ~ (have to log out and in again for setting to take effect). So closing as WORKSFORME. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User roland@logikalsolutions.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c11 --- Comment #11 from Roland Hughes 2009-06-05 06:30:23 MDT --- And broken for the rest of the world. This is _exactly_ why people don't report bugs in OpenSource code. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572 User remur@gmx.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502572#c12 --- Comment #12 from Karsten König 2009-06-05 11:21:07 MDT --- Noone could replicate, you didn't specify enough information, you just said it's wrong how it's done and not how to fix it, no forum post where they know it's an opensuse problem, etc pp. In short there was nothing found to be fixed. btw, novell bugzilla (including non-oss stuff) has 500k+ entries, kde bugzilla nearly 200k, I wouldn't say nobody reports bugs in opensource. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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