On 09/07/2011 06:23 AM, Brendan Donegan wrote: > How is this bug possible? Checkbox depends on gconf2. Under what > circumstances is it not installed? >
Are you sure about that? For Oneiric, which the bug was opened about: bladernr@klaatu:~/development/checkbox$ grep -i gconf debian/control; echo $? 1 and looking in debian/control Package: checkbox Section: python Architecture: all Replaces: hwtest (<< 0.1-0ubuntu12) Provides: hwtest Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, debconf, udev Recommends: dpkg (>= 1.13), lsb-release, pm-utils, python-apport, python-apt, python-dateutil, python-gst0.10 Suggests: checkbox-cli | checkbox-gtk, bonnie++, bootchart, bzr, cvs, ethtool, flex, fwts, git-core, hdparm, lshw, make, nmap, obexd-client, python-pexpect, smartmontools, sox, stress, wodim Conflicts: hwtest (<< 0.1-0ubuntu12) Package: checkbox-cli Architecture: all Replaces: hwtest-cli (<< 0.1-0ubuntu12) Provides: hwtest-cli Depends: checkbox (= ${source:Version}) Conflicts: hwtest-cli (<< 0.1-0ubuntu12) Package: checkbox-gtk Section: gnome Architecture: all Replaces: hwtest-gtk (<< 0.1-0ubuntu12) Provides: hwtest-gtk Depends: checkbox (= ${source:Version}), gksu, python-gobject (>= 2.28), gir1.2-gtk-3.0 Conflicts: hwtest-gtk (<< 0.1-0ubuntu12) Same with checkbox 0.11. And current checkbox-certification. Perhaps we just assumed gconf2 was installed as it was previously part of Main and installed by default? bladernr@klaatu:~/development/checkbox-certification$ apt-cache policy gconf2 gconf2: Installed: 2.32.2-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 2.32.2-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 2.32.2-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Thats from my Natty system. -- Jeff Lane - Hardware Certification Engineer and Test Tools Developer Ubuntu Ham: W4KDH Freenode IRC: bladernr or bladernr_ gpg: 1024D/3A14B2DD 8C88 B076 0DD7 B404 1417 C466 4ABD 3635 3A14 B2DD -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832321 Title: gconf_resource throws an exception if gconftool-2 is not found To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox/+bug/832321/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs