hgview will not start

[Ethan Blanton]

When trying to start hgview 1.9.0-1.1 on Artful, it fails to start with the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hgview", line 38, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/application.py", line 226, in main
    sys.exit(start(repo, opts, args, parser.error))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/application.py", line 174, in start
    app = Application(repo, opts, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/qt4/application.py", line 54, in __init__
    super(HgViewQtApplication, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/application.py", line 84, in __init__
    self.choose_viewer()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/application.py", line 108, in choose_viewer
    viewer = self.HgRepoViewer(self.repo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/qt4/hgrepoviewer.py", line 106, in __init__
    self._repodate = self._getrepomtime()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/qt4/hgrepoviewer.py", line 623, in _getrepomtime
    for l in (self.repo.sjoin('lock'), self.repo.join('wlock')):

This appears to affect all repositories.
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-04 (983 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
Package: hgview 1.9.0-1.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13
Tags: artful
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-11-09 (94 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare scanner sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Ethan Blanton (eblanton)]

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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I haven't verified this issue myself, but I did find a corresponding bug report in Debian with the same traceback.

[Arthur Lutz (Logilab) (arthur-lutz-logilab)]

Hi Ethan, thanks for reporting this bug and using hgview. I believe a fix has been pushed upstream https://hg.logilab.org/review/hgview but has not yet been published or arrived in debian / ubuntu. Would you be willing to try out an install from source to confirm this ? I've notified the maintainers of hgview to encourage them to push this update where it need to be pushed.

[Ethan Blanton (eblanton)]

I would. I assume this is the fix: https://hg.logilab.org/review/hgview/rev/cb30615c7174

I will try 1.10.0 later today; I assume Ubuntu would pull just that patch to 1.9.0, I will also try to check that.

[Ethan Blanton (eblanton)]

Both 1.10.0 and 1.9.0 + revision cb30615c7174 work here.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Needs an upstream/ubuntu upgrade for Bionic
 https://www.logilab.org/ticket/10126859

[Tobias Groll (gibot)]

With the actual version from the upstream repository I get still the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/hgview", line 36, in <module>
    from hgviewlib.application import main
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/application.py", line 27, in <module>
    from hgviewlib.util import find_repository, rootpath, build_repo
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/util.py", line 23, in <module>
    from mercurial.util import binay # noqa
ImportError: cannot import name binay

I have fixed this by adding an r to the word binay in line 23 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hgviewlib/util.py so this line is now:
 from mercurial.util import binary # noqa

[Steffen Hemer (s-hemer)]

I can confirm that building the Debian package from the upstream repo with the fix Tobias mentioned work perfectly fine on Bionic.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Closing since the package is removed from Ubuntu

[Steffen Hemer (s-hemer)]

But it is still available in bionic and it was not working ever since although it would be just adding the simple fix!