Program crashes on startup

[Børre Gaup]

PyRoom crashes on startup.

The bug is fixed in maverick as the patch was applied in debian and the packaged synced from there.

TEST CASE:
1) install pyroom
2) start if from the command line ans see it crash:
pyroom-0.4.1 $ LC_ALL=C ./pyroom
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./pyroom", line 35, in <module>
    import sys, PyRoom.cmdline
  File "/home/boerre/Dokumenter/src/pyroom-0.4.1/PyRoom/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
    fallback=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 480, in translation
    mofiles = find(domain, localedir, languages, all=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 437, in find
    for nelang in _expand_lang(lang):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 132, in _expand_lang
    locale = normalize(locale)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 333, in normalize
    fullname = localename.lower()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'lower'

3) install package from lucid-proposed
4) start it to verify that it works

[Florian Heinle (tiax)]

Hi,

thanks for your report. Has been fixed in trunk and 0.4

[Vladimir (dreadatour)]

Sorry... It was a pure accident with status change.

[kernel_script (kernelscript)]

I got the exact same error on my updated Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

[aslam karachiwala (akwala)]

Ubuntu 9.10 amd64
PyRoom 0.4.1-1

This problem persists.

[massula (mmassula)]

Yep. I have the same problem of Aslam.

Ubuntu 9.10 amd64
PyRoom 0.4.1

[Csomortáni Hunor (csomortani-hunor)]

Same error.
PyRoom 0.4.1
Ubuntu 9.10

Error occurred after changing desktop language from en-us to hungarian and persisted even after switching back to en-us.

Don't know it it was a good idea but I managed to get rid of it by setting a $LANGUAGE from en_US.UTF-8 to nothing.

[Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)]

I have just experienced this in Lucid beta.
I installed from Ubuntu's repositories.

[Daniel Kessler (hornord)]

Bug reproduced on fresh install of Xubuntu Lucid 10.04

Here's the output:
---
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pyroom", line 35, in <module>
    import sys, PyRoom.cmdline
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PyRoom/__init__.py", line 34, in <module>
    fallback=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 480, in translation
    mofiles = find(domain, localedir, languages, all=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 437, in find
    for nelang in _expand_lang(lang):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 132, in _expand_lang
    locale = normalize(locale)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 333, in normalize
    fullname = localename.lower()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'lower'
---

Since this seems related to the locale, here's the output of `locale` attached (swiss french in my case).

[Scott Severance (scott.severance)]

This bug is not fixed in 0.4, unless 0.4.1 contains a regression. I have 0.4.1 and am affected by this bug.

[Christian Niemeyer (christian-niemeyer)]

Thanks to Csomortáni Hunor.

This worked for me. You can easily workaround this bug by starting pyroom the following way:

From a Terminal:
LANGUAGE='' pyroom &

In Gnome via ALT+F2 you type in:
sh -c "LANGUAGE='' pyroom"

And all your pyroom menu entries change to:
sh -c "LANGUAGE='' pyroom"

Worked like a charm. Please note, that after LANGUAGE= there are two ' not a single ", just do copy&paste. :)

[Christian Niemeyer (christian-niemeyer)]

$ cat /etc/environment
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
LANGUAGE="de_DE:de:en"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
DISPLAY=":0.0"
MANWIDTH="80"
__GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK="1"

I guess this really depends on the LANGUAGE-variable. What's the difference between LANG and LANGUAGE? I can't remember, but one of them I added in the /etc/environment

[Christian Niemeyer (christian-niemeyer)]

To stick with the original menu entry its:

sh -c "LANGUAGE='' pyroom %F"

[Juan Carlos Rodrigo (jrodrigog)]

Slackware 13.1 64 bits and pyroom-0.4.1

$ env | grep LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE=es_ES

$ python --version
Python 2.6.4

# Debugging a bit in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyRoom/__init__.py
>>> print languages_used
['es_ES', ['es_ES']]
# Ooops not a plain list

Patch attached.

[Juan Carlos Rodrigo (jrodrigog)]

Slackware 13.1 64 bits and pyroom-0.4.1

$ env | grep LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE=es_ES

$ python --version
Python 2.6.4

# Debugging a bit in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyRoom/__init__.py
>>> print languages_used
['es_ES', ['es_ES']]
# Ooops not a plain list

Patch attached.

[Yalçın Can (yalcin.can)]

I have the same problem, I'm using Ubuntu Lucid.

[Adam Rooke (abelianr)]

Could you try using the trunk version of pyroom? We have made some changes
recently to the locale handling that may have fixed this.

bzr branch lp:pyroom
cd pyroom
./pyroom

On 30 August 2010 09:05, Yalçın Can <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have the same problem, I'm using Ubuntu Lucid.
>
> --
> Program crashes on startup
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367990
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[Florian Heinle (tiax)]

it's fixed in trunk for quite a while now, however we haven't made any release since then.

The current translations situation is blocking new releases for now. C.f. http://blog.pyroom.org/2010/03/help-wanted-translations-management.html

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Fixed in maverick:

pyroom (0.4.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    + Added patch to fix crash when LANGUAGE is set. Thanks to Jakub Wilk
      <email address hidden> for patch (Closes: #584478)

 -- Kartik Mistry <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:16:07 +0530

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Fix in lp:pyroom is different from the patch.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Filed a merge request for a lucid SRU.

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Uploaded and pending review by ubuntu-sru.

(Subscribed ubuntu-release by accident, sorry)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted pyroom into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Works fine for me with the package from lucid-proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pyroom - 0.4.1-2ubuntu0.1

---------------
pyroom (0.4.1-2ubuntu0.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches:
    + Added patch to fix crash when LANGUAGE is set. Thanks to Jakub Wilk
      <email address hidden> for patch (LP: #367990)
 -- Philip Muskovac <email address hidden> Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:18:59 +0200