Gwibber crashes at startup

[Hund]

Ubuntu 9.10
Gwibber 2.0.0~bzr481-0ubuntu1~daily1~karmic

This is what happends when I start Gwibber:

johan@Tiji:~$ gwibber
WARNING:root:desktopcouch is not available. . falling back to gconf

** (gwibber:20056): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (gwibber:20056): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (gwibber:20056): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 57, in <module>
    client.Client()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 105, in __init__
    self.w = GwibberClient()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 188, in __init__
    self.setup_ui()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 260, in setup_ui
    self.input = gwui.Input(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 395, in __init__
    self.textview = InputTextView(client)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 455, in __init__
    self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(self, None)
glib.GError: enchant error for language: en_US.UTF-8

Same thing with the stable version and the previous version from the trunk PPA.

[Alex Esplin (alex-esplin)]

This is probably not the "Right Way" to fix this, but it works for me:

=== modified file 'gwibber/gwui.py'
--- gwibber/gwui.py 2009-10-22 11:43:06 +0000
+++ gwibber/gwui.py 2009-11-25 17:24:19 +0000
@@ -452,7 +452,11 @@
     self.error_color = gtk.gdk.color_parse("indianred")

     if gtkspell:
- self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(self, None)
+ try:
+ self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(self, None)
+ except:
+ self.spell = None
+ pass

   def get_text(self):
     buf = self.get_buffer()

[Anonymous (dreamfix)]

This worked here too, thank you. But why is this not "the right way"?

[Alex Esplin (alex-esplin)]

Mostly because we're just masking away the real problem.

If I had the time, I'd go digging around and find out why gtkspell is raising an exception. Unfortunately, the end of the semester is creeping up on me and I don't have the time.

So I can live without spell-checking. So far, it doesn't seem like this little patch has broken anything else, but it may still be to early to tell.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

now as gwibber is working for both reporter and the commenter, should we close this bug report?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

well now marking this fixed