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geteduroam Linux client
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Failed installation on Linux causes syslog spam #42

Closed JSKenyon closed 11 months ago

JSKenyon commented 11 months ago

After attempting and failing to install the application from the nightly build (geteduroam-cli-linux-amd64) my syslog was spammed with messages which look like this:

Nov  1 09:21:25 jonathan org.freedesktop.FileManager1[2958754]: Please enter your organization (e.g. SURF):

I was never presented with this option when attempting to install (in fact, the installer didn't present me with any options). This was likely an error on my part but it suggests that something isn't caught correctly. The message spam caused my syslog to grow to a problematic size.

Edit: Changed the above after I realised that problem was not persistent.

jwijenbergh commented 11 months ago

Is this not just the log that you double clicked on the CLI client in your file manager? You need to open the client in your terminal by navigating to the directory with cd and then run ./geteduroam-cli-linux-amd64 after making it executable with chmod +x geteduroam-cli-linux-amd64

jwijenbergh commented 11 months ago

Also if you prefer a GUI you can try the GUI package

JSKenyon commented 11 months ago

Is this not just the log that you double clicked on the CLI client in your file manager? You need to open the client in your terminal by navigating to the directory with cd and then run ./geteduroam-cli-linux-amd64 after making it executable with chmod +x geteduroam-cli-linux-amd64

Absolutely - as I mentioned, it was a stupid error on my part. I thought it was worth raising anyway as it struck me as a sharp edge. In my case, it filled my OS partition by bloating the log. At the very least, there is now a trail of bread crumbs if any other user makes a similar error. Feel free to close the issue if you don't want to take further action and thank you for your quick response!

jwijenbergh commented 11 months ago

Ah yes indeed it does spam a lot. I will see if I can handle this, thanks!

Did the client work for you in the end?

JSKenyon commented 11 months ago

Did the client work for you in the end?

It did, thank you!

jwijenbergh commented 11 months ago

Did the client work for you in the end?

It did, thank you!

Great!

Could you test the binary in https://github.com/geteduroam/linux-app/releases/tag/nightly I made a commit that hopefully handles this

JSKenyon commented 11 months ago

Could you test the binary in https://github.com/geteduroam/linux-app/releases/tag/nightly I made a commit that hopefully handles this

Tested and I can confirm that it no longer spams the syslog when double clicked in executable mode.

jwijenbergh commented 11 months ago

Great! It should also send a notifcation if "notify-send" is installed.