meld crashed with AttributeError in <module>()

[Crushyerbones]

Binary package hint: meld

Meld crashes with an AtributeError. Could it be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meld/+bug/250525 ? I have a lot of Latex packages and I believe I've seen the word gettex somewhere else.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/meld
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: meld 1.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/meld
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/meld']
SourcePackage: meld
Title: meld crashed with AttributeError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/meld", line 38, in <module>
     gettext.bindtextdomain("meld", paths.locale_dir())
 AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'locale_dir'
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[VinceLe (legoll)]

Yes, this is certainly the same bug.

Could you send the output of
python -c "import misc; print misc.__file__"
as Adam Collar asked in the other bug

[Crushyerbones (crushyerbones)]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named misc

[VinceLe (legoll)]

Sorry I cut'n'pasted without even looking...

please do:
python -c "import paths; print paths.__file__"

[Crushyerbones (crushyerbones)]

I figured something was wrong :p

/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/paths.pyc

[VinceLe (legoll)]

could you try something to help pinpoint the bug ?

edit /usr/bin/meld, at line 32, you should see something like:

sys.path += [ "/usr/lib/meld" ]

try to replace the line with:

sys.path[0:0] = [ "/usr/lib/meld" ]

just replace "+=" with "[0:0] ="
and launch meld again, the same way as when it was failing, and report.

We're in the process of making a new release, so this one should be fixed before.