typecatcher crashes on launch

[Tommy Trussell]

I recently upgraded to hirsute 21.04 and just discovered typecatcher doesn't launch. A couple of web searches implies some deprecated python issues; I don't know what version python I was running in Ubuntu 20.10.

This is what I see when trying to launch it from a terminal:

~$ typecatcher
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typecatcher_lib/Application.py", line 30, in on_activate
    self.window = TypeCatcherWindow.TypeCatcherWindow()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typecatcher_lib/Window.py", line 47, in __new__
    builder = get_builder('TypeCatcherWindow')
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typecatcher_lib/helpers.py", line 44, in get_builder
    builder.add_from_file(ui_filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typecatcher_lib/Builder.py", line 86, in add_from_file
    ele_widgets = tree.getiterator("object")
AttributeError: 'ElementTree' object has no attribute 'getiterator'
~$
~$ python --version
Python 2.7.18
~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: typecatcher 0.3-1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-18.19-generic 5.11.17
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jun 7 22:40:36 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-20 (961 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: typecatcher
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-05-12 (26 days ago)

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

I read that font-manager had the feature I needed at the moment so I used the Software Center to install it. For some reason the flatpak version it chose worked at first then crashed. So I uninstalled the flatpak and used apt to install the version in hirsute, which has worked just fine.

I think it's possible I have some weird cruft in my local font caches or somewhere leftover from the upgrade from groovy 20.10.

I successfully used font-manager to install a font in local storage (and font-manager seeing the two Google fonts typecatcher had installed several months ago)

HOWEVER even after a couple of reboots, typecatcher is still crashing on launch.

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

Working on the local cache theory I tried running typecatcher in another user account on this system but which did NOT have any user account installed fonts. It crashes in the same way as shown at top; font-manager runs fine, and confirms no locally-installed fonts in the other user's account.

[Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell)]

I just fired up a VM of 21.04 Hirsute and typecatcher crashes with the same error on a new VM

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I can confirm that typecatcher 0.3-1.2 crashes when I attempt to run it on Ubuntu 21.04. I found a similar bug report in Debian which lists the same stack trace so I have attached a bug watch.

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Ubuntu 22.04 here and TypeCatcher doesn't catch anything…

…crashes at each launch attempt.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Updating tags based on comment above, marking affected releases

[Mark Rogers (marcos.rogers)]

Apparently (https://stackoverflow.com/a/64744395) this error appears in Python 3.9 and following because gititerator() has been replaced by iter()

This issue has been fixed in version 0.4 (https://github.com/andrewsomething/typecatcher/issues/16), but only version 0.3 is available in the default repository (jammy).

I fixed the issue on my installation of typecatcher 0.3 by editing /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/typecatcher_lib/Builder.py and replacing both instances of gititerator with iter on lines 86 and 108.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package typecatcher - 0.4-0.1

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typecatcher (0.4-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload

  [ Jeremy Bícha ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #815539, LP: #1923622, LP: #1931193)
  * Add minimal debian/gbp.conf
  * Add patch to switch from webkit2gtk 4.0 to 4.1
  * Update dependencies

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * Add debian/upstream/metadata
  * Update standards version to 4.6.2, no changes needed

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:47:44 -0500