pychess package is broken in january

[evgen]

Binary package hint: pychess

pychess does not start at all, instead it hangs and not not react at all!

here is a log from ~/.pychess/

19:43:11 Default Debug: Started
19:43:11 stdout Debug: Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/System/tsqlite.py", line 34, in run
    con = sqlite.connect(self.path)
OperationalError: unable to open database file

19:43:12 stdout Debug: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/Players/engineNest.py:3: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import os, md5, imp
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: /usr/games/gnome-gnuchess
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: Black
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Log: xboard
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Log: protover 2
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: GNU Chess for GNOME 2.26.1
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: Adjusting HashSize to 1024 slots
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: Transposition table: Entries=1K Size=40K
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: Pawn hash table: Entries=0K Size=28K
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: White (1) : feature setboard=1 analyze=1 ping=1 draw=0 sigint=0 variants="normal" myname="GNU Chess for GNOME 2.26.1" done=1
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Log: nopost
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Log: quit
19:43:12 Gnome-gnuchess Debug: Exitcode 0 Success
19:43:12 Default Debug: Engine finished GNU Chess for GNOME 2.26.1
19:43:13 stdout Debug: Traceback (most recent call last):
19:43:13 stdout Debug: File "/usr/games/pychess", line 87, in <module>
19:43:13 stdout Debug: import pychess.Main
19:43:13 stdout Debug: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 20, in <module>
19:43:13 stdout Debug: from pychess.widgets import tipOfTheDay
19:43:13 stdout Debug: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/widgets/tipOfTheDay.py", line 7, in <module>
19:43:13 stdout Debug: widgets = GladeWidgets("tipoftheday.glade")
19:43:13 stdout Debug: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/System/uistuff.py", line 198, in __init__
19:43:13 stdout Debug: self.widgets = gtk.glade.XML(addDataPrefix("glade/%s" % filename))
19:43:13 stdout Debug: RuntimeError: could not create GladeXML object

[Thomas Dybdahl Ahle (lobais)]

Hi, this is a known problem (365730)
You should download the beta package from the pychess webpage.