Crashes with "group name can not be empty"

[Marius Gedminas]

I tried to open my ~/.pwsafe.dat with password-gorilla, and it crashed with the following error on the terminal:

    group name can not be empty
        while executing
    "error "group name can not be empty""
        (procedure "::pwsafe::db::splitGroup" body line 15)
        invoked from within
    "pwsafe::db::splitGroup $groupName"
        (procedure "AddGroupToTree" line 9)
        invoked from within
    "AddGroupToTree $groupName"
        (procedure "AddRecordToTree" line 4)
        invoked from within
    "AddRecordToTree $rn"
        (procedure "AddAllRecordsToTree" line 3)
        invoked from within
    "AddAllRecordsToTree"
        (procedure "gorilla::Open" line 59)
        invoked from within
    "gorilla::Open"
        invoked from within
    "if {$haveDatabaseToLoad} {
      set action [gorilla::Open $databaseToLoad]
     } else {
      set action [gorilla::Open]
     }"
        (file "/usr/share/password-gorilla/gorilla.tcl" line 7545)

The file works fine with pwsafe (command-line tool recently removed from Debian and Ubuntu) and Android's PasswdSafe.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: password-gorilla 1.5.3.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 13 14:15:31 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: password-gorilla
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-26 (47 days ago)

[Allison Randal (allison)]

Do you know if the pwsafe file was v3 format? Debian has a nearly identical bug report.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I think it was v2, although I'm not sure how I can check (file ~/.pwsafe.dat says "data").

The pwsafe package that was recently removed from Debian and Ubuntu says it's "[c]ompatible with CounterPane's PasswordSafe Win32 program versions 2.x and 1.x.", so I suspect v3 is not a possibility.