Many errors in gedit after upgrading from breezy to dapper

[Bruce Sherwood]

Binary package hint: gedit

After upgrading from breezy to dapper, gedit emits a large number of strange error messages, as shown below. (And what does gedit have to do with Python? Is it written in Python? Am I missing some piece of Python after the upgrade?) I tried reinstalling gedit, which made no difference.

bruce@ubuntu-Bruce:~$ gedit test.txt
** (gedit:7278): WARNING **: Could not import pygtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/modelines.py", line 20, in ?
    import gedit
ImportError: No module named gedit

** (gedit:7278): WARNING **: Could not load python module modelines

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

** (gedit:7278): CRITICAL **: gedit_plugin_update_ui: assertion `GEDIT_IS_PLUGIN (plugin)' failed

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Looks like your pygtk is broken. What's the output of:

dpkg -l 'py*gtk*' | cat

[Bruce Sherwood (bruce-sherwood)]

Here is the requested output. The first time I ran this it said <none> for both python-gtk and python-gtk-1.2, so I installed python-gtk-1.2 (but the package manager didn't list python-gtk). After installing, no change in the behavior of gedit. Where is the module "gedit" supposed to be that modelines.py is trying to import?

bruce@ubuntu-Bruce:~$ dpkg -l 'py*gtk*' | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-===============-============================================
un python-gtk <none> (no description available)
ii python-gtk-1.2 0.6.12-4ubuntu1 GTK support module for Python
ii python-gtk2 2.8.6-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set
ii python2.4-gtk2 2.8.6-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for the GTK+ widget set

[Steven Harms (sharms)]

Has this behavior been fixed, or have you tried it from a fresh dapper install?

[Bruce Sherwood (bruce-sherwood)]

Not sure exactly what is meant by "fresh dapper install". I can't imagine wiping my dual-boot machine and installing dapper from scratch. I did however run the software update and nothing changed with gedit. The update process did however say it couldn't download gtk+2.0/libgtk2.0 (and dev and common), nor gtk+2.0/gtk2-engines-pixbuf.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. do you use a local session with xorg? does "python -c "import gtk"" work fine? do other pygtk applications are working too? do you run it with your user?

[Bruce Sherwood (bruce-sherwood)]

That must be the problem. I built /usr/local/bin/python from source, and that's the python displayed with "which python". I find that /usr/local/bin/python -c "import gtk" yields an import error, whereas /usr/bin/python -c "import gtk" is fine. Clearly the problem is with my nonstandard install of python (done for good reasons), not with Ubuntu.

How would I get gedit to use /usr/bin/python rather than /usr/local/bin/python?

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

 status Rejected

You can remove /usr/local/bin from your $PATH (or move it to
after /usr/bin).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

why do you need to install python to /usr/local? You should stick the packages of the distribution

[Bruce Sherwood (bruce-sherwood)]

I have a very technical reason for doing this, having to do with
building a package for Python (the Visual module) that depends on a
library not part of the Ubuntu distribution, and not wanting to disturb
the regular Python installation.

Bruce

Sebastien Bacher wrote:

>why do you need to install python to /usr/local? You should stick the
>packages of the distribution
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

"python-visual - VPython 3D scientific visualization library"

why not installing that package?

[Bruce Sherwood (bruce-sherwood)]

I have the Ubuntu package installed, with the Ubuntu Python package. I'm
working on a new beta version of Visual and want to leave in place the
existing package for comparison.

Bruce

Sebastien Bacher wrote:

>"python-visual - VPython 3D scientific visualization library"
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>why not installing that package?
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, anyway not a packaging bug so good luck with that