[64] in im locker bugs
Re: gaim updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky L Rivera)
Tue Jul 22 12:54:56 2003
From: Ricky L Rivera <ricky_r@MIT.EDU>
To: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-im@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <20030722165013.GC19561@multics.mit.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 2003 12:54:54 -0400
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 12:50, Arun A Tharuvai wrote:
> Could you cc bug-im next time? It'll make it easier to for me to look
> through it, since it also gets piped to a couple of archives?
Sorry, I meant to reply-all, but I must've missed by a few pixels. :-)
>
> The error messages you sent made it easy to track down the problem.
>
> It appears that glib (the platform-independent library used by gtk,
> used by gaim), is broken. More specifically, g_file_test() which tests
> existence of files, reports files on AFS filesystems as unreadable,
> when in fact they are. When I'm sure of this, I'll submit a bug
> report. It might take time for a patch to trickle down and appear in
> the athena release, but maybe a week from now, I'll write up some sort
> of a local hack, that fixes it for gaim.
>
> Arun
Okay, well, if you want me to check it out and let you know if it's
working, just give me a heads up on when to look.
Thanks.
--Ricky
