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gwibber package

gwibber crashes on startup

Bug #537502 reported by N7DR on 2010-03-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #427249: Crashes on start when trying to load gtk-find icon. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gwibber (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gwibber

When I try to start gwibber, it crashes every time. I'm attaching the output from the console (for some reason, I can't simply cut-and paste the text into this report).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 11 10:36:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: gwibber 2.0.0~bzr476-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: gwibber
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

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N7DR (doc-evans) wrote on 2010-03-11:

The error messages when gwibber is started Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain)
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (64.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote on 2010-03-11:

Please could you try to reproduce this issue in latest version of gwibber daily ppa (you can get from https://launchpad.net/~gwibber-daily/+archive/ppa) and check if this problem is still affecting you? Thanks in advance!

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Victor Vargas (kamus) wrote on 2010-03-18:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 427249, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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N7DR (doc-evans) wrote on 2010-03-18:

OK; although I note that that bug was fixed in November and I am running a fully up-to-date karmic and still see the crash. Presumably the fixed version simply hasn't been put into backports for some reason :-(