displayconfig-restore.py crashed with IndexError in main()

[Chad Waters]

Binary package hint: kde-guidance

This comes up a lot

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 25 08:42:13 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/python-support/guidance-backends/displayconfig-restore.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: guidance-backends 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu7
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/displayconfig-restore
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/displayconfig-restore']
SourcePackage: kde-guidance
Title: displayconfig-restore.py crashed with IndexError in main()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

If you go into Display & Monitors in System Setting and (as Administrator) select a monitor in the hardware tab, does this recur after that? I can patch the package so it doesn't crash, but if the available sizes can't be gotten, I'm not sure there's a useful purpose that can be accomplished after that.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Also would you please run the following command and then attach the output as a file to the bug:

python /usr/share/python-support/guidance-backends/xf86misc.py

[Chad Waters (chad)]

$ python /usr/share/python-support/guidance-backends/xf86misc.py
Number of screens: 1
Idle seconds: 0.417

Gamma:(1.0, 1.0, 1.0)

SizeID:0
Size:(1920, 1200, 518, 324)
Available Sizes:[(1920, 1200, 518, 324), (1600, 1200, 518, 324), (1280, 1024, 518, 324), (1152, 864, 518, 324), (1024, 768, 518, 324), (800, 600, 518, 324), (640, 480, 518, 324), (720, 400, 518, 324)]

Rotation:1
Available Rotations:63

Refresh rate:60
Refresh rates for the current screen:[60]
All Refresh Rates:[60]
All Refresh Rates:[60]
All Refresh Rates:[75, 60]
All Refresh Rates:[75]
All Refresh Rates:[75, 60]
All Refresh Rates:[75, 60]
All Refresh Rates:[75, 60]
All Refresh Rates:[70]
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request: 156 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
  Value in failed request: 0x4b
  Serial number of failed request: 15
  Current serial number in output stream: 15

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Thanks. I suspect this is fixable, although I don't know if I've got time to get it done for Hardy for certain.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kde-guidance - 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu11

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kde-guidance (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu11) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Andreas Wenning ]
  * Added kubuntu_24_displayconfig_no_gamma.patch: As we cannot check if
    the video driver supports live gamma changes, we should catch any
    exceptions generated by lacking support. (LP: #201092, #201468).
  * Added kubuntu_25_kde-powermanager_allways_change_brightness.patch
    which disables the internal check for not setting the same bright-
    ness as last time. Some laptops can change brightness in hardware
    and other programs can change it through HAL, so we should allways
    try to change the brightness.

  [ Guillaume Martres ]
  * Added kubuntu_26_kde-powermanager_handle_hal_dbus_restarts.patch so
    the powermanager better handles dbus/hal restarts. (LP: #123812).

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Added kubuntu_27_displayconfig-restore_try_getsize_again.patch to try to
    get size from screen 0 if the first attempt failed (LP: #206509)

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:06:50 -0400