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gnome-utils package

gnome-dictionary won't use dictd at localhost

Bug #80725 reported by Sami Nybacka
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gnome-utils
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gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

gnome-dictionary > edit > preferences: Add new dictionary source:

transport: dictionary server
hostname: localhost
port: 2628

Click Add: new entry accepted, but when opened again, it shows "dict.org" as a hostname, instead of localhost. Same thing happens when using 127.0.0.1 for example.

When adding, I got following warning on the terminal:
** (gnome-dictionary:5967): WARNING **: Invalid transport

It seems that source was saved just right, gnome-dictionary just won't use it:
 > cat .gnome2/gnome-dictionary/source-1169296563-5771.desktop

[Dictionary Source]
Name=source-1169296563-5771
Description=local
Transport=dictd
Hostname=localhost
Port=2628

I have dictd working ok from shell, the following for example works just fine:
dictl -h localhost -p 2628 test

Dapper did not have this problem.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use?

Changed in gnome-utils:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Sami Nybacka (sapeny) wrote :

Oh, sorry: this is Ubuntu 6.10.

Package: gnome-utils
Version: 2.16.1-0ubuntu1

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Somebody of the team should forward this upstream.

Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Áron Sisak (asisak) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. I'm closing it because the bug has been fixed in Feisty.

Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-utils:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Kudryashov (antiquadr) wrote :

It happened again in Jaunty. I've just install 9.04 and got this error.
In addition if I make double click on "Default server" in dialog that item get double itself, and finally I have two "Default server".

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Rosalino (rosalino) wrote :

Same happened to me. I was able to remove the duplicate sources by deleting them from ~/.gnome2/gnome-dictionary/<source_name>.desktop.
Also to remove the unwanted Thai source that appears by default I renamed it at /usr/share/gdict-1.0/sources/<source_name>.desktop.
From some reason it appears to take the thai.desktop as the default source from /usr/share/gdict-1.0/sources

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Chris Lasher (chris.lasher) wrote :

I'm experiencing the same issues that Kudryashov described.

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Miguel Mendes Ruiz (migmruiz) wrote :

I'm experiencing the same issues in Maverick.

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