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Jacob


On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:45 AM, John Cottier <email address hidden>wrote:

> This is still a problem in 10.04, I get "The panel encountered a
> problem...." error message for Glipper at every bootup. I tried using
> klipper instead, but then when shutting down Ubuntu Klipper "fails to
> respond". The after system startup, its gone from the panel (and takes
> kmail tray icon with it). So we have the two major clip board apps, one
> fails at boot, the other fails at shutdown. Since I use clipboards all
> the time at work this is a problem for me as a business user. How many
> years do we have to wait for a bugfix?
>
> --
> Glipper dies when desktop starting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in Glipper: Unknown
> Status in “glipper” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “glipper” source package in Hardy: Confirmed
> Status in “glipper” package in Debian: New
> Status in Fedora: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> I use glipper all the time and I find it to be the clipboard application
> that has been missing from Linux desktops for the longest time. In the
> recent Hardy development I find that glipper dies when the desktop starts. I
> receive the following message in an error dialog window:
>
> The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:Glipper....
>
> The  is asks if I want to remove glipper  from the panel. I find this very
> frustrating. What is more frustrating is that once the desktop is up and
> running I can then install the glipper applet back on the panel and it works
> properly. I have only installed this as an applet and I have never tried
> setting up a custom launcher.
>
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
>
> glipper:
>  Installed: 1.0-1
>  Candidate: 1.0-1
>  Version table:
>  *** 1.0-1 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>
> Traceback originally from Bug #222846:
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Apr 27 03:59:12 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> Package: glipper 1.0-1ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/glipper/glipper',
> '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=33']
> SourcePackage: glipper
> Title: glipper crashed with ValueError in load()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-386 i686
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev
> sambashare scanner video
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/glipper/glipper", line 53, in applet_factory
>    glipper.Applet.Applet(applet)
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/Applet.py", line 50, in
> __init__
>    get_glipper_history().load()
>  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/History.py", line 89, in
> load
>    self.history.append(file.read(int(length)))
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\x14\x0b'
>
>
>
>
> Proposed Workaround:
> So what to do: Look up Glipper and add a wait statement:
>
> sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
>
> Make sure the code in the beginning looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> # Glipper - Clipboardmanager for GNOME
> # Copyright (C) 2007 Glipper Team
> # bla bla bla
> # License along with this library; if not, write to the
> # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
> # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
> #
>
> import time # <-- This line is new
> time.sleep(8) # <-- This line is new. Change the 8 to for instance 30 if it
> did not help
>
> import gobject
> gobject.threads_init()
>
> import gtk, gnomeapplet, gnome
> import getopt, sys
> from os.path import *
>
>
>
>
> Proposed Solution(? needs to be verified):
> Crashing in Intrepid too. It needs to be rebiult againsta libffi5 instead
> of libffi4
>
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