Re: Bug report

[Christian Meesters]

If Canonical gives this promise and it or its package maintainers cannot keep it (namely: updating a non-critical package), than this is not a bug which warrants reporting a developer (or many) which went on in the meantime but to the respective ubuntu maintainer. Or?

On 11/28/18 4:13 PM, Jonathan Franklin wrote:

I will do that.  However, I will also point out that THIS is the version that is installed with a simple apt-get in Ubuntu 16.04 -- a LTS system.

So if the most recent updates to 16.04 breaks THIS version of parallel -- then it is still a bug that warrants reporting.

-- J

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:44 AM Hubert Kowalski <h.kowalski@hakger.pl> wrote:

always try newest version. 20141022 is 4 years old!

Dnia 28 listopad 2018 o 01:07 Jonathan Franklin <jonathan.franklin.1981@gmail.com> napisał(a):

Hello,

 

   I have used your code for a while now without any issues, but all of a sudden it has started throwing an error message at me.  I am writing as directed in the error message itself.

   Even just running one of the examples in the man document produces the same error:

 

parallel: This should not happen. You have found a bug.

Please contact < parallel@gnu.org> and include:

* The version number: 20141022

* The bugid: pidtable format: 2009 1971 

* The command line being run

* The files being read (put the files on a webserver if they are big)

If you get the error on smaller/fewer files, please include those instead.

In this case I put a pile of .png files into a directory and then from within that directory ran:

>> find . -name '*.png' | parallel gzip --best

I recognize that this is an older version of parallel, but it is the one that comes with Ubuntu 16.04 and it has worked FINE up until I tried it today.  The last time I ran it was about 2 weeks ago and it worked fine then.   I have done standard security updates of my linux box since then, but no major upgrades or any other software installations since then.   

Thank you kindly for your help with this issue,

        -- Jonathan

 

-- 
Dr. Christian Meesters
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung
Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzelweg 12
55099 Mainz

tel. +49 (0)6131 39 26397