onboard crashes in precise alpha 2

[David López]

I've installed in virtualbox ubuntu 12.04 alpha2 32 bits. When I open onboard 0.96.2-0ubuntu1 I receive an error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/onboard", line 16, in <module>
    ob = Onboard()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 64, in __init__
    self.init()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 86, in init
    self.reload_layout()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 350, in reload_layout
    self.load_layout(config.layout_filename,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/Config.py", line 387, in get_layout_filename
    self.LAYOUT_FILE_EXTENSION))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/ConfigUtils.py", line 233, in _get_user_sys_filename_gs
    system_filename_func)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/ConfigUtils.py", line 276, in _get_user_sys_filename
    .format(description=description, filepath=filepath))
KeyError: 'filename'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: onboard 0.96.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic-pae 3.2.5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-15-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 12 10:04:32 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: onboard
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Thanks for your interest in Onboard and for helping to make it better by filing bugs.

Onboard 0.97.0 will be soon released; could you please test whether the problem also occurs in the development version of Onboard? You can easily install it from our Snapshots PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/snapshots

[David López (david-lopez-upct)]

Francesco, I've installed the development version, but I'm afraid that the problem is still present in 0.97.0~preview~tr712-0ppa~precise1

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/onboard", line 17, in <module>
    ob = Onboard()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 66, in __init__
    self.init()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 106, in init
    self.reload_layout()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 429, in reload_layout
    self.load_layout(config.layout_filename,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/Config.py", line 475, in get_layout_filename
    self.LAYOUT_FILE_EXTENSION))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/ConfigUtils.py", line 275, in _get_user_sys_filename_gs
    system_filename_func)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Onboard/ConfigUtils.py", line 318, in _get_user_sys_filename
    .format(description=description, filepath=filepath))
KeyError: 'filename'

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Thanks for trying the snapshot and informing us about the problem also occurring there.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

I guess the spanish translation was just updated. There is a mixup:
"{description} '{filepath}' found." was translated as
"{description} «{filename}» encontrada."

Updating onboard won't help at this time, sorry.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

The previous workarounds for bug #916056 should still work:

Try running with the english user interface:
$ LANGUAGE=en onboard

or, disable the spanish translation for onboard permanently (at least until language-pack-gnome-es-base is updated again):
$ sudo mv /usr/share/locale-langpack/es/LC_MESSAGES/onboard.mo{,_}

[marmuta (marmuta)]

I've suggested a fixed translation for Precise, hopefully it gets approved soon.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Could someone please assign "onboard (ubuntu)" to "Ubuntu Spanish Translators"? Launchpad doesn't let me. Thanks in advance

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Translations in Ubuntu are handled by the Ubuntu Translations project, so we are going to move this bug report over to that project.

[David López (david-lopez-upct)]

Thanks marmuta, opening onboard in English solved the problem.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

The offending string has been corrected. I'm sorry -- I unintentionally caused this bug.

[David López (david-lopez-upct)]

I've noticed that this bug prevents onboard to be displayed in lightdm welcome screen (see the attached image). That makes imposible to start a session without an external keyboard (unless autologin is enabled).

[Josep Pujadas-Jubany (jpujades)]

Same problem with Catalan language.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks Josep, I think this should be a new bug report. I've opened bug #999155 for this.