Comment 97 for bug 213494

But why does that work? If it sleeps for 8, 30, 90 seconds and then starts
reliably? what was it that caused it to crash in the first place?

Jacob

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Shane Rice <email address hidden> wrote:

> This fix:
>
> 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 *
>
> Worked for me, I had it set to 30, and then started crashing it
> regularly at startup. I upped it to 90 seconds, and that is working
> now. I also went through a bunch of stuff in my startup and eliminated
> bunch of things that shouldn't have been starting anyway.
>
> Shane
>
> --
> Glipper dies when desktop starting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
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>
> Status in Glipper: Unknown
> Status in “glipper” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in glipper in Ubuntu 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
>