ccsm crashed with TypeError in _Read(): value is of wrong type for this column(when opening animations)

[George Karavasilev]

Binary package hint: compizconfig-settings-manager

Ubuntu 11.04 daily Build (21.Jan.2011) x64

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: compizconfig-settings-manager 0.9.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 21 12:15:25 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ccsm
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110121)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ccsm
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=bg_BG.UTF-8:bg:en_GB:en
 LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=bg_BG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ccsm']
SourcePackage: compizconfig-settings-manager
Title: ccsm crashed with TypeError in _Read(): value is of wrong type for this column
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

really simple to reproduce. search for 'animations' in ccsm and click to open the animations settings nothing opens except for the crash window.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Also happens when clicking “Advanced Search”, as soon as the progress bar gets to “Animations”.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Some quick Python debugging shows that the ‘values’ variable at fault in _Read is

values = ('Glide 2', 120, '((type=Normal | Unknown) | name=sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer | name=sun-awt-X11-XDialogPeer) & !(role=toolTipTip | role=qtooltip_label) & !(type=Normal & override_redirect=1) & !(name=gnome-screensaver)', '')

[Cob @FPGLaurent (c-o-b)]

As Anders Kaseorg, I click "Advanced Search".

[Muharem Hrnjadovic (al-maisan)]

Effects -> Animations

BANG!!

[NGAGE13 (ngage13)]

ccsm-animations

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 1304, in ShowPlugin
    pluginPage = PluginPage(plugin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 128, in __init__
    groupPage = GroupPage(name, group)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Pages.py", line 1380, in __init__
    sga = SubGroupArea(subGroupName, subGroup)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Settings.py", line 1482, in __init__
    multiList.Read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Settings.py", line 132, in Read
    self._Read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Settings.py", line 759, in _Read
    self.Store.append(values)
TypeError: value is of wrong type for this column

[r_u (rusyrusy)]

fix this

rm .config/compiz-1/compizconfig/config

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

r_u: Doesn’t work. Also, I still see this problem on a freshly created account.

[lent (lent)]

Seems similar to Bug #192389 (info also posted there).

Still crashes after "hiding" the config file.

lent@BlueUbuntu:~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig$ mv config .config

Before the crash, the program rebuilds the config rebuilds as a shorter config file:

lent@BlueUbuntu:~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig$ diff -c .config config
*** .config 2011-02-03 09:17:55.121334860 -0500
--- config 2011-02-17 11:10:56.429666595 -0500
***************
*** 1,7 ****
  [gnome_session]
  profile =

- [general]
- profile =
- integration = true
-
--- 1,3 ----
lent@BlueUbuntu:~/.config/compiz-1/compizconfig$

So r_u: 's solution doesn't work. And anyway programs shouldn't crash on bad config files. They should spit out an error messages somewhere (with enough information) and die in a controlled way. Even a message a log file helps. Rant over :-)

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

You can see from the tracebacks that this is unrelated to bug #192389.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this is now fixed in Natty. Thanks Sam.