Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes hangs

[H. Langos]

Hi ilf,

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:03:20PM +0200, ilf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the gnupod-tools 0.99.7-2 Ubuntu package. But I just diff'd
> that mktunes with the mktunes.pl from the gnupod-0.99.8.tgz and they're
> the same.

That may be true, but mktunes uses GNUpod/SysInfo.pm and that's where the 
problem was fixed.

> I had problems with mktunes hanging after any gnupod_ operation on my
> iPod shuffle 2nd generation, with "automktunes = 1" set in .gnupodrc.
> The operations worked, but I had to CTRL-C mktunes every time.

That's a known problem on ubuntu. Comes up once in 
a while. Search google for "gnupod ubuntu hangs".

It has been fixed in this commit on 2009-04-07:

http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnupod/src/ext/SysInfo.pm?root=gnupod&r1=1.5&r2=1.6

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnupod.git/commit/?id=d9b0e13c2f930e06228331b68d9458d99b703493

Please, please, please, report this bug to the ubuntu maintainers (the
problem only manifests itself on ubuntu) and bug them to either update 
the ubuntu package to 0.99.8 or to bug the debian maintainers to do so. 

AFAIK the ubuntu package is the same as the debian package, so updating
there would automagically fix the ubuntu package too.

> Do you have any hint on what I should try?

Just apply this one line patch to SysInfo.pm :

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnupod.git/patch/?id=d9b0e13c2f930e06228331b68d9458d99b703493

> 
> Thanks, and keep up the good work!

No worries... Just make sure you report the bug so the maintainers update
their packages. I sent the 0.99.8 announcment to them but they probably 
don't see the need to update as there are no bugs in their bugtracker that
would get fixed by packaging a new version.

cheers
-henrik