MyUnity

MyUnity doesn't start if there's a process having the word "myunity" in its command line

Bug #986667 reported by Florian Diesch
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myunity (Ubuntu)
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Benjamin Kerensa

Bug Description

MyUnity just quits before doing anything if there is a process with a commandline that contains the word "myunity".

This is caused my CheckProcess() in Main.module

How to reproduce:

Go to the command line and run

 gedit /tmp/myunity

This will open a new file in GEdit

Now try to start myunity: Doesn't work. Close GEdit and you can start MyUnity.

Tags: patch
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Florian Diesch (diesch) wrote :

In addition this makes t impossible to start MyUnity using a explicit shell like

 sh -c myunity

like it is done for example by ClassicMenu Indicator

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Margarita Manterola (marga-9) wrote :

Given the way that it is checked how myunity is running, it also wouldn't work if other user of the same machine has myunity open. I'm attaching a patch that fixes both issues.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

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tags: added: patch
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Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) wrote :

Margarita: I have a merge proposal in with your patch which looks like it will work fine.

Changed in myunity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)
status: New → In Progress
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Ivo Anjo (knuckles) wrote :

Yeah, I got bit by this because I still had the Software Center open with apt://myunity .

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Margarita Manterola (marga-9) wrote :

Benjamin, I had submitted two other patches together with this one, to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/precise-backports/+bug/999771

I was hoping all three patches could be uploaded to backports together, but somehow the other bug now shows up as invalid. I suspect it's related to myunity being removed from Quantal but I'm not sure.

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