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Bug 633360 - Gfax keeps crashing right after start
Gfax keeps crashing right after start
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: Gfax
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
0.3
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: George Farris
George Farris
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-28 14:58 UTC by rusivi
Modified: 2012-02-29 13:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description rusivi 2010-10-28 14:58:47 UTC 
Downstream bug may be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gfax/+bug/125003

In Maverick 32-bit, got error message when running gfax from command line.

gfax

Unhandled Exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path "/var/spool/gfax" is denied.
  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.Create () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:Create ()
  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at gfax.gfax.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy gfax
gfax:
  Installed: 0.7.7+ds-1
  Candidate: 0.7.7+ds-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.7+ds-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-02-29 13:46:07 UTC 
According to http://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/gfax/log/ GFax has not seen any code changes for the last seven years. I consider it highly unlikely that it will suddenly see further active development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.