Bug 5287 – SETI@Home Plugin crashes Gkrellm

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Techie2000 2002-07-19 20:35:06 UTC]

Using GCC 2 I emerged Gkrellm, and the gkrellm-seti plugin. I activate the
plugin and it works fine. However after setting it up to launch the command line
seti client I clicked it and as per its functionality it launched the SETI
client. However it then caused gkrellm to crash. I killed gkrellm and restarted
it and it worked normally. After killing the seti client, when I restarted it
using Gkrellm I got the same problem.

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-07-19 22:41:40 UTC]

unfortunately the gkrellm-seti applet is buggy, as the upstream author freely
admits.  he also stated he has not had much time for it, and doesn't seem like
he will in the forseeable future.

the release we have was his quick hack to just get it to compile with the
current gkrellm.

if you're willing to take a hack at it, please do so, else my inclination would
be towards masking, and subsequently removing the package from portage entirely.

[Comment 2 Techie2000 2002-07-21 11:19:34 UTC]

Yeah masking sounds good. Maybe replace it with the one at
http://www.yty.net/h/gkrellm/ ? That's what the current plugin was based off of.

[Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-07-27 21:38:28 UTC]

techie, can you make an ebuild for it (time is sadly against me these days..)

[Comment 4 Techie2000 2002-07-30 13:59:51 UTC]

I never made an ebuild before, so I'm going to have to learn. But as they say
there is no time like the present. I'll do my best and once I get that ebuild
done I'll submit a new bugzilla entry for it. As far as the current plugin, I
very much agree the best thing to do  is to mask and eventually remove it from
the portage tree.

[Comment 5 Techie2000 2002-07-31 15:09:22 UTC]

Okay I made the ebuild which works fine. However the plugin binary that they
provide on the website won't work with the current version of GKrellM. They
don't provide a tar.gz source. Anyways I've been unable to find another GkrellM
plugin. If I find one I'll make an ebuild for it...

[Comment 6 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-08-16 05:57:11 UTC]

techie,

reopen this bug if you find something