gnome-app-install crashed with error in __init__()

[miked]

Binary package hint: gnome-app-install

not sure why it crashed

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 22 05:15:08 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-app-install
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: gnome-app-install 0.4.13-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gnome-app-install --mime-type=application/x-ms-dos-executable file:///media/cdrom0/start.exe /media/cdrom0/start.exe
ProcCwd: /root
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-app-install', '--mime-type=application/x-ms-dos-executable', 'file:///media/cdrom0/start.exe', '/media/cdrom0/start.exe']
SourcePackage: gnome-app-install
Title: gnome-app-install crashed with error in __init__()
Uname: Linux Ubuntu704Tribe5Alt 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[miked (miked11)]

changed status from private to public
hope this helps make it easier for everyone to see and fix

[Albert Damen (albrt)]

As this bug occurred in a pre-release version of Gutsy, can you please advise if this is still a problem?

[miked (miked11)]

root@Ubuntu704Tribe5Alt:~# cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l

root@Ubuntu704Tribe5Alt:~#

[miked (miked11)]

added info

[knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f)]

This just greeted me when I wasn't doing anything gnome-app-install related in a freshly updated Jaunty... As I don't even use gnome-app-install I haven't got a clue as to what set this off...

[knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f)]

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)"

$ date
Thu Jan 15 16:30:55 CET 2009

just upgraded...

$ apt-cache policy gnome-app-install
gnome-app-install:
  Installed: 0.5.12-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.5.12-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.12-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[knarf (launchpad-ubuntu-f)]

Just got another one of these. There seem to be two problems here, one of them being gnome-app-install crashing when some background command malfunctions as happened here. GAI tried to install some gstreamer codec:

gstreamer-codec-install --transient-for=79691807 'gstreamer|0.10|rhythmbox-metadata|application/x-tar decoder|decoder-application/x-tar'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gstreamer-codec-install", line 30, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/activation.py", line 470, in main
    style = CodecSearchActivationStyle(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/activation.py", line 149, in __init__
    SearchActivationStyle.__init__(self, 'codec', options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/AppInstall/activation.py", line 107, in __init__
    self._db = gdbm.open(db_name, 'rfu')
gdbm.error: (2, 'No such file or directory')

OK, that went wrong. These things happen, but GAI should not crash...

Now to find the root cause of the gstreamer bug...

[Scott (scott3091)]

user@host:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"

user@host:~$ gnome-app-install
/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/SimpleGtkbuilderApp.py:33: RuntimeWarning: missing handler 'on_button_newly_close_clicked'
  self.builder.connect_signals(self)
/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/SimpleGtkbuilderApp.py:33: RuntimeWarning: missing handler 'on_button_newly_more_clicked'
  self.builder.connect_signals(self)
WARNING: can not get name for '<atk.NoOpObject object at 0xa4d357c (AtkNoOpObject at 0xa62bac8)>'
WARNING: can not get name for '<atk.NoOpObject object at 0xa4d3874 (AtkNoOpObject at 0x9c40190)>'
WARNING: can not get name for '<atk.NoOpObject object at 0xa4d3eb4 (AtkNoOpObject at 0x9c40000)>'
WARNING: can not get name for '<atk.NoOpObject object at 0xa4d416c (AtkNoOpObject at 0xa631678)>'
/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/AppInstallApp.py:153: DeprecationWarning: Use the new widget gtk.Tooltip
  self.tooltips = gtk.Tooltips()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-app-install", line 30, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/activation.py", line 486, in main
    app = AppInstallApp(options, style)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/AppInstallApp.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.search_entry = SearchEntry(self.icons)
  File "/usr/share/gnome-app-install/AppInstall/widgets/SearchEntry.py", line 51, in __init__
    0)
gio.Error: Error opening file: No such file or directory

My error is slightly different than the one in the previous comment and it started today after applying all updates.

user@host:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-app-install
gnome-app-install:
  Installed: 0.5.60.1
  Candidate: 0.5.60.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.60.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

user@host:~$ date
Fri Sep 4 16:16:22 EDT 2009

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you reproduce this bug with a supported Ubuntu version? Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-app-install (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]