python 2.7.2-2 crash

[Diego Algara]

I updated python 2 and scribes no longer works:

$ scribes
[dwe@flexbook ~]$ Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/scribes", line 11, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 8, in main
    __open()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 24, in __open
    Manager().open_files(uris, "utf-8", stdin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/InstanceManager.py", line 79, in open_files
    self.__new_editor(stdin=stdin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/InstanceManager.py", line 163, in __new_editor
    Editor(self, str(uri), encoding, stdin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Editor.py", line 9, in __init__
    Initializer(self, manager, uri, encoding, stdin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/ServicesInitializer.py", line 30, in __init__
    Manager(editor, uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/Manager.py", line 5, in __init__
    Manager(editor, uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Manager.py", line 5, in __init__
    Manager(editor, uri)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Window/Manager.py", line 5, in __init__
    Window(editor)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Window/Window.py", line 8, in __init__
    self.__set_properties()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Window/Window.py", line 36, in __set_properties
    if get_value(): self.__set_rgba()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/WidgetTransparencyMetadata.py", line 13, in get_value
    database.close()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'database' referenced before assignment

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Close all running scribes intances.

pkill scribes

or

killall scribes

Remove scribes using your package manager. Then reinstall scribes. See if that helps.

[Diego Algara (diego-algara-deactivatedaccount)]

The process exits when I press anything at the terminal, but I double checked and there where no scribes processes running.
Uninstalled with dependencies and reinstalled it in Archlinux with:
pacman -Rs scribes
pacman -S scribes

Same output.

This leads me to thing that there's an incompatibility issue with python 2.7.2-2, I'm using gnome 3 with Arch.
GNOME Shell 3.0.2
Scribes version 0.4-dev-build954
Linux flexbook 2.6.39-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 9 14:57:41 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

[Diego Algara (diego-algara-deactivatedaccount)]

I just learned to rollback packages in Arch, so I rolled back python to the first version I had, didn't work either, and shows the same output, python2 version 2.7.1-9.

If I run scribes as root, I get a warning:
usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py:10: Warning: g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  main()

But scribes seems to work.

So I searched for it's config and deleted the folder, at ~/.config/scribes

Now my scribes it's working again, I don't have a clue of what happened...

Cheers, waiting for the next version!

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

Ah, I forgot about that. It's most likely an incompatibility with the database. I'm slowly moving Scribes to a new database storage format (sqlite). So this won't be a problem in the future.