[apport] BloGTK.py crashed with IOError in __init__()

[brimstone]

Binary package hint: blogtk

crashed 3 times while setting up program, then doesn't start at all & crashes at startup

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 19 12:10:37 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/blogtk/BloGTK.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.4
Package: blogtk 1.1-2build1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python2.4 /usr/bin/BloGTK
ProcCwd: /home/micky
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/BloGTK']
SourcePackage: blogtk
Uname: Linux marvin 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn)]

The installation of blogtk seems entirely messed up - thanks for pointing it out.

I think the bug you are reporting here is a side-effect of blogtk not installing properly, combined with bad error-handling. The proxy config file ~/.BloGTK/proxies.conf hasn't been written properly, and rather than raising an error the script proxy.py tries to carry on with meaningless data.

I just installed blogtk, and ran it from a terminal. I got the following error:

Creating new BloGTK prefs directory
Config file not found - Will Open Prefs!
Creating New Config!
Creating new proxies.conf
/usr/share/blogtk/config.py:457: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
  self.proxyButton_None.set_active(gtk.TRUE)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/blogtk/config.py", line 174, in fillForm
    self.defaultPublish = self.parser.get("Default", "defaultPublish")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 520, in get
    raise NoOptionError(option, section)
ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'defaultpublish' in section: 'Default'
Creating file for custom tag entry

plus a lot more warnings along the lines of "/usr/share/blogtk/config.py:457: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead"

Somehow, running blogtk also seemed to crash gaim and emacs-snapshot - I've no idea what that's about.

Anyway, I'm going to have a look at the package, and see if there's anything I can do to clean it up a bit...

[Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn)]

In fact, I believe this is a side-effect of https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blogtk/+bug/90371 (which I think is the crash on setup you mentioned, and would be what causes the later crash). Not marking it as a duplicate until I've investigated a bit further, though.

[Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn)]

Could you please attach all files in ~/.BloGTK, in particular proxies.conf and BloGTK.conf.

Note that BloGTK.conf is likely to contain the password for your blog account, so you should edit that file to conceal your password and any other personal details.

best,
Dan O'Huiginn

[brimstone (newsletter-fluctus)]

I just deleted and reinstalled BloGTK - seems to work perfectly now.

I'm sorry that I can't provide the files now - this is actually my first posted msg at launchpad and I missed saving the relevant files - my mistake :-/ But thanks for the fast reply!

[Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn)]

Never mind; it's useful to know that this went away on reinstall. I'll close this bug for now, since I can't reproduce your exact error on my machine either. Feel free to reopen it if you get the same problems again in the future.

[Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn)]

problem vanished on reinstall