UI Window goes blank after browser launch

[techwiz24]

Upon any type of web browser lanuch (EG: File a bug, more information button, etc), the main UI Window goes blank until the browser is closed.

--verbose output around the time of the bug (I was having the time sync bug also, trying a few things):
Opening http://www.pandora.com/stations/a6f4344755e3c59ace9182135c3d9c74258a1d44ffb27d24

(firefox:10066): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:10066): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:10066): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:10066): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
Opening http://www.pandora.com/stations/a6f4344755e3c59ace9182135c3d9c74258a1d44ffb27d24

(firefox:10101): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:10101): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:10101): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(firefox:10101): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(plugin-container:10133): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(plugin-container:10133): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(plugin-container:10133): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(plugin-container:10133): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
<Repats above 20+ times>

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libmurrine.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

(npviewer.bin:10152): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
Opening https://bugs.launchpad.net/pithos

[techwiz24 (techwiz24)]

The issue goes away after the browser is closed, possiblly an issue with my GTK Installation?

[techwiz24 (techwiz24)]

Also, for some reason, pithos is opening firefox. Not sure if it's a hard coded call, but I have chromium-browser set to my default

[Kevin Mehall (kevin-mehall)]

What distribution and release are you using?

Pithos uses python's webbrowser module to open a browser, so this is probably a bug in Python if the browser is not being opened correctly, or if it is freezing the Pithos process.

[techwiz24 (techwiz24)]

Ubuntu 11.10. Default install. I did apply a patch to get rid of the time bug. I also noticed that the same message was spammed when I opened chromium from docky, so it's most likely an issue with the install. Still not sure why the UI window would blank out though...

[Ryan Koesters (rmkoesters)]

I believe that the reason pithos was using firefox was because your $BROWSER environmental variable was set to firefox. You should unset it to fix that problem.

The hanging gui issue is fixed in my pull request: https://github.com/kevinmehall/pithos/pull/11

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. RELEASE reached EOL on DATE.
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