Package: pilot-manager
Version: 1.107.0pre108-4
Severity: normal
PilotManager reports a misleading error message when the PDA device file
does not exist.
For example, I just got this message:
02/26/2006 10:27:29 Error: Don't have read/write permissions on /dev/pilot!
(On Solaris owner/group/perms should be root/sys/666)
That wording strongly implies that the device file does exist but the
permissions aren't set right for PilotManager to have sufficient access.
However, the real problem was that the device file did not exist at all
(because of a udev-related timing problem).
Since PilotManager should avoid giving misleading error messages, it
should check for the existence of the device file separately from
checking for access rights and it should issue a different error message
if the device file doesn't exit.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages pilot-manager depends on:
hi libpda-pilot-perl 0.11.8-10 Perl module to communicate with a
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-8sarge3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-tk 1:800.025-2 Perl module providing the Tk graph
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