gdebi-kde crashes with unicode directories

[vista killer]

Some programmes can not read greek names of my folders.I have problem with .deb installer gedeb and when i am in terminal mode.With gedeb i cant install a deb package inside a folder with greek name because this programme dont recognize the name.Here is and some photos

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

The first two screenshots show a bug in KDE. I think this has been addressed, hasn't it?

The terminal issue has to do with incorrect enabling of the Greek font in the console. It is a bug, and I think it has been recorded before (affects Ubuntu, Fedora, and probably others).

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

The problem still exist in Intrepid Ibex Kde 4.

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Can you tell me which programs (that you know of) still have this problem?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please install the gtk version of gdebi and check if the problem exists there as well?

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

I have install gtk version and works fine. The problem still exist in gdebi-kde

[István Nyitrai (sianis)]

Hi!

Could you please try again with jaunty and gdebi 0.4.2?

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

The problem exist in Jaunty alpha 4

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I have marked bug #146518 as a duplicate of this one. The problem seems to be that a lot of packages do not have support for utf-8 encoding in folder/file names.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I apologise, setting strigi as Invalid, seems not to be part of KDE 4 package.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Doesn't affect strigi any more. The person who reopened the dupe said that gdebi was having problems, not strigi.

[István Nyitrai (sianis)]

Please review my patch, thank you!

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I made a test package:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/medigeek/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gdebi/
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23055442/gdebi_0.4.3_0.4.3~ppajaunty1.diff.gz

User vistakiller has tried it out and a crash was reported:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gdebi-kde", line 53, in <module>
    t = gettext.translation('gdebi', '/usr/share/locale')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 484, in translation
    raise IOError(ENOENT, 'No translation file found for domain', domain)
IOError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'gdebi'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 85, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL), 'w')
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/_usr_bin_gdebi-kde.0.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gdebi-kde", line 53, in <module>
    t = gettext.translation('gdebi', '/usr/share/locale')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py", line 484, in translation
    raise IOError(ENOENT, 'No translation file found for domain', domain)
IOError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'gdebi

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

The error messages say that there is no 'gdebi' domain.
Is the translation file called 'gdebi.mo'? You can change this text or you can comment out for now the commands that invoke the localisation messages, because these do not contribute to the problem.
The issue is to figure out a way so that the non-ASCII filenames are read and interpreted correctly.

[István Nyitrai (sianis)]

Did you reinstall gdebi-core? It contains the mo files.

Here is my test results with hu_HU.UTF8 locale and the PPA version of gdebi:

debi-kde --help
Usage: gdebi-kde [options]

Options:
  -h, --help show this help message and exit
  -n, --non-interactive
                        Futtatás nem interaktív módban (veszélyes!)

--

gdebi-kde βετα/gnome-app-install_0.5.12-0ubuntu1_all.deb
executable /usr/bin/gdebi-kde

No error window or any problem.

So please try reinstall the gdebi-core.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

It works, I've tested it on kvm (virtual machine) with the latest daily kubuntu jaunty i386 ( http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily/current/ ).

Great job!

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

It was tested inside folders like "Έγγραφα" (Documents) and "omgκάτιτεστάρω" (random english and greek combined).

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

I think it's the same problem with this one:
If one runs
    kdialog --yesno δοκιμή
Greek characters *are not* displayed correctly in the dialog.

Maybe KCmdLineArgs doesn't support UTF-8?

http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKCmdLineArgs.html

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

"kdialog --yesno δοκιμή" works as well.

Whatever it was, I believe it was fixed :)

I've also tested it with Serbian, just installed the keyboard layout
(regional settings), but without installing the Serbian language.

[István Nyitrai (sianis)]

Yes. This is the problem. I fixed it with optparse in gdebi-kde.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

If you're interested, software-properties-kde also has this type of bug. (bug 102773) It's been around forever, so it would be great if it could be fixed.

On behalf of the Kubuntu community, thanks for your work!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.4.4

---------------
gdebi (0.4.4) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ István Nyitrai ]
  * fix problem with installing utf-8 filenames with gdebi-kde
    (LP: #190907)
  * auto-close checkbutton (LP: #57812)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * updated for the new "setup.py --install-layout=deb" and
    dist-packages requirement

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:49:46 +0100

[Laur Mõtus (vprints)]

The crash has been fixed, but the install dosen't succeed, it produces the error message: The package file does not exist! This happens when there are characters like ö ä ü õ in file path.
This is important, because in Estonian the default download folder for the files - desktop is called 'töölaud'.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

Laur, can you post the output of:

apt-cache policy gdebi-kde

[Laur Mõtus (vprints)]

kasutaja@ARLA32:~$ apt-cache policy gdebi-kde
gdebi-kde:
  Paigaldatud: 0.4.4
  Candidate: 0.4.4
  Versioonitabel:
 *** 0.4.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I don't know, I can't test it. Now I'm getting the same error vistakiller mentioned previously:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/126316/

It's not related to this bug however. I think the locales files are missing from the packages...

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

By looking at [1], I noticed that some language packs use another directory:
/usr/share/locale-langpack/

[1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=gdebi.mo&mode=filename&suite=jaunty&arch=any

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

mvo has "silently" fixed the gettext problem. :) Revision 244 works great now!
It should probably be included with the next update of gdebi.

I tested it and it works with "töölaud" directory above.

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

Actually, it seems that Istvan did the fix, thanks and sorry for the wrong attribution :)

[vista killer (vistakiller)]

I have just upgrade to jaunty and the problem fixed :D

[Laur Mõtus (vprints)]

Lol, so yes, gdebi-kde has the fix but now the shiny new packagekit crashes :P

kpackagekit /home/kasutaja/Töö/knemo_0.5.1-0~getdeb1_i386.deb
isFIle
kasutaja@ARLA32:~$ New transaction with tid "/27_badbbbac_data"
KPackageKit(5091) KpkIcons::actionIcon: action unrecognised: 9
enumFromString ( State ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1
KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::errorCode: errorCode: 3 "Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/daemonBackend.py", line 109, in run
    threading.Thread.run(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 168, in wrapper
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 1261, in doInstallFiles
    deb = debfile.DebPackage(path, self._cache)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 53, in __init__
    self.open(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 58, in open
    if not apt_inst.arCheckMember(open(self.filename), "debian-binary"):
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 16-17: ordinal not in range(128)
"
KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Failed.
KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Yep, we failed.
KPackageKit(5091) KpkInstallFiles::installFilesFinished: Finished.
removing transaction from pool : "/27_badbbbac_data"

packagekit will now replace other package management in Kubuntu, am I right?
So the deprecated part is fixed and the default one still dosen't work :P the irony of software life-cycles =)
Should i make a new report?

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

Laur, yes and link it against packagekit :)

On 3/23/09, Laur Mõtus <email address hidden> wrote:
> Lol, so yes, gdebi-kde has the fix but now the shiny new packagekit
> crashes :P
>
> kpackagekit /home/kasutaja/Töö/knemo_0.5.1-0~getdeb1_i386.deb
> isFIle
> kasutaja@ARLA32:~$ New transaction with tid "/27_badbbbac_data"
> KPackageKit(5091) KpkIcons::actionIcon: action unrecognised: 9
> enumFromString ( State ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1
> KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::errorCode: errorCode: 3 "Traceback (most
> recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/daemonBackend.py", line
> 109, in run
> threading.Thread.run(self)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 477, in run
> self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 168, in wrapper
> func(*args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib/packagekit/aptDBUSBackend.py", line 1261, in doInstallFiles
> deb = debfile.DebPackage(path, self._cache)
> File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 53, in __init__
> self.open(filename)
> File "/usr/lib/packagekit/debfile.py", line 58, in open
> if not apt_inst.arCheckMember(open(self.filename), "debian-binary"):
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 16-17:
> ordinal not in range(128)
> "
> KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Failed.
> KPackageKit(5091) KpkTransaction::finished: Yep, we failed.
> KPackageKit(5091) KpkInstallFiles::installFilesFinished: Finished.
> removing transaction from pool : "/27_badbbbac_data"
>
> packagekit will now replace other package management in Kubuntu, am I right?
> So the deprecated part is fixed and the default one still dosen't work :P
> the irony of software life-cycles =)
> Should i make a new report?
>
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> gdebi-kde crashes with unicode directories
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190907
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[Laur Mõtus (vprints)]

Reported:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/347327

please guys, help to confirm and debug it, need to get this sorted out for Jaunty for good :)