[apport] run-onboard.py crashed with SyntaxError in run_script()

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Binary package hint: onboard

I am running feisty, crash is right on startup.

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Sun Jan 28 00:57:58 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/onboard/run-onboard.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: onboard 0.85
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/share/onboard/run-onboard.py
ProcCwd: /media/sda2/vincenzo
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/onboard/run-onboard.py']
SourcePackage: onboard
Uname: Linux frattaglia 2.6.20-5-generic #2 SMP Sat Jan 6 14:50:47 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[fremm (fremm)]

On feisty, I just try to run onboard.

[Scott Zawalski (cowbud)]

The fix is to declare the encoding in /usr/share/onboard/utils.py

The maintainer should add the following line:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

-----for brevity here is the stack trace

Stack trace from onboard. It looks like a UTF issue.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/onboard/run-onboard.py", line 3, in <module>
    from sok import Sok
  File "/usr/share/onboard/sok.py", line 6, in <module>
    from Keyboard import Keyboard
  File "/usr/share/onboard/Keyboard.py", line 11, in <module>
    from utils import run_script
  File "/usr/share/onboard/utils.py", line 17
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file /usr/share/onboard/utils.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

[Scott Zawalski (cowbud)]

The fix is to declare the encoding in /usr/share/onboard/utils.py

The maintainer should add the following line:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

-----for completeness here is the stack trace

Stack trace from onboard. It looks like a UTF issue.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/onboard/run-onboard.py", line 3, in <module>
    from sok import Sok
  File "/usr/share/onboard/sok.py", line 6, in <module>
    from Keyboard import Keyboard
  File "/usr/share/onboard/Keyboard.py", line 11, in <module>
    from utils import run_script
  File "/usr/share/onboard/utils.py", line 17
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file /usr/share/onboard/utils.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Confirmed for me, the fix solves the problem.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

86076 has a more complete stack trace if that is needed.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Does this problem still exist in the latest onboard upload, 0.86

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

dear luke
i will test over the weekend...
(i see only that now the looked keyring is a second hurdle where input
is needed - so i now type my passord twice with each login)

i use 7.04 - i hope this is what you are interested in

andrew

Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Does this problem still exist in the latest onboard upload, 0.86
>
>

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

It works now indeed, thank you.

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

on-board works - but it is not shown before login, only afterwards.
this is not sufficient for people with limitations (handicaps) and tablet users who have no keyboard.

there is an additional hint at accessibility in the ->system->login interface

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

@Andrew

There are at least 2 threads in the forum about a hack to make onboard (formerly called sok) at the login screen:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=267051
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=304045

Maybe that it can help you.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

This bug should either be closed or edited to reflect the accessibility problem, what do you prefer? I was about to edit since it is assigned to the usability team but am not sure if it was done before Andrew's comment.