[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 5064] New: libxfcegui discards the system-level error message.

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5064

           Summary: libxfcegui discards the system-level error message.
           Product: Xfce
           Version: 4.4.0
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=50719
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        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
        ReportedBy: hellohello at mytrashmail.com


Created an attachment (id=2222)
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A patch to fix the bug described here.

A bug report, including a patch, was submitted to Debian:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507197

The bug report was closed without actually fixing the bug, even though a patch
was supplied, for purely political reasons (the patch is in context format
rather than universal format). 

In short, sometimes, some program using libxfcegui will try to run the program
"xfrun4" and fail to do so. The underlying libraries provide a reason for the
failure, but this reason is discarded by code in libxfcegui4. Instead, the only
error message presented to stderr is that xfrun4 could not be spawned.

The patch provided on the Web site is against libxfcegui as it's distributed by
Debian in the libxfcegui4-4 package. No attempt was made to install the orignal
libxfcegui, get the official release number, or test later versions of
libxfcegui.

The Debian patch is reproduced here.

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