Gwibber

gwibber crashed with ValueError in load_fonts()

Bug #425929 reported by Mathieu Marquer on 2009-09-07

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #383759: Gwibber fails to start when GNOME has a floating point font set. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gwibber	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
	gwibber (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gwibber

Starting gwibber, it crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 7 13:32:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gwibber
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: gwibber 2.0.0~bzr396-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gwibber']
SourcePackage: gwibber
Title: gwibber crashed with ValueError in load_fonts()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Related branches

lp:~inash/gwibber/gwibber-425929

Rejected for merging into lp:gwibber

Robert Bruce Park: Disapprove on 2013-03-28

Bilal Akhtar (community): Approve on 2010-07-09

gwibber-committers: Pending requested 2010-04-04

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Mathieu Marquer (slasher-fun) wrote on 2009-09-07:

Dependencies.txt Edit (18.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (42.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (755 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (702 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

visibility:

private → public

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2009-09-07

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote on 2009-11-06:

Can you try to reproduce this issue in latest version of gwibber? Thanks!

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote on 2010-02-09:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

Inash Zubair (inash) on 2010-03-23

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → New

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Inash Zubair (inash) wrote on 2010-03-23:

As of this writing, revision 20 of gwui.py line 236 tries to convert a float that appears as string to an int. The value is retrieved from global application font preference. If you supposed have 8.5899, the conversion fails, but if you have an int it works ok.

So prior to casting to an int, if the value is first converted to a float, it does the trick of flooring the float value to an integer and the lower bound value is used in setting gwibber's application font size.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-03-27:

Inash can you please try the development release of gwibber from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-daily/+archive/ppa and see if the problem is there

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	New → Incomplete

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Inash Zubair (inash) wrote on 2010-04-04:

Omer, I've checked with ~gwibber-daily and it doesn't have the fix. You can check for the linked branch ~inash/gwibber/gwibber-425929 for a one line fixer. It does the job.

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2010-04-04

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-04-16:

might be related to bug 546392

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in gwibber:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-05-09:

Inash, can you make a new patch and attach it to bug 546392 so that we could mark this a duplicate of that bug. bug 546392 has more duplicates and also that crash is caused on a newer version. on that bug report we would subscribe the patch reviewers and hopefully get it merged. :-)

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Inash Zubair (inash) wrote on 2010-05-09:

Omer, I've changed this and the bug following this one to mark it as a duplicate of bug 546392, and my branch/patch as affecting it as well. Cheers.