gnome-app-install 0.1.9 crashes on startup

[Martin Bergner]

gnome-app-install crashes on startup when running it from the menu or from the commandline. This is a fresh install of todays daily snapshot (Feb. 12, 2006).

This is the error message that it splits out:

mb@mnlaptop:~$ gnome-app-install

** (gnome-app-install:8391): WARNING **: return value of custom widget handler was not a GtkWidget
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-app-install", line 39, in ?
    app = AppInstall(datadir, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/AppInstall.py", line 211, in __init__
    self.updateCache()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/AppInstall.py", line 585, in updateCache
    progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/Menu.py", line 110, in __init__
    self.refresh(progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/Menu.py", line 248, in refresh
    self._populateFromEntry( menu, progress=progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/Menu.py", line 314, in _populateFromEntry
    self._populateFromEntry(entry, item, progress=progress)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/AppInstall/Menu.py", line 359, in _populateFromEntry
    translated = gettext.dgettext(domain,raw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 541, in dgettext
    codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 489, in translation
    t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 177, in __init__
    self._parse(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/gettext.py", line 301, in _parse
    plural = v[1].split('plural=')[1]
IndexError: list index out of range

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

I can confirm this. This always happens with the screem desktop file here.

I don't know if this is a solution, but it works :)

try:
    translated = gettext.dgettext(domain,raw)
except:
    pass

Regards,

Sebastian

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Perhaps related to this: On some apps the whole desktop file is shown in the summary. See the screenshot.

Regards,

Sebastian

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

A comment.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I followed Sebastians suggestion and added a try: except around gettext.dgetext(). I can't reproduce the problem with xchat-gnome showing all the desktop file.

I tried setting LANGUAGE=de and LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8. I get a german g-a-i, but no error on xchat-gnome.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Hi,

my locale settings:
mb@mnlaptop:~$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

I get the error with these, and also see the full desktop file. I don't get the error with en_US:en resp. en_US.UTF-8. Removing the xchat-gnome.desktop file from /usr/share/gnome-app-install/Desktop didn't stop the error.
Is there anything I can add to this section to see what file it is choking on?

[Martin Bergner (martin-bergner)]

Oh, I forgot to add that the tomboy display is also broken and it contains the line "Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n !=1);"

This looks similar to the entry which causes the problem.
Of course, this could be just a coincidence.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This should be fixed in 0.1.10