software-center crashed with TypeError in create_automatic_user_and_run_session(): 'int' object is not subscriptable

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

Binary package hint: software-center

I was attempting to test the new web-live option. I tried and failed to launch pdfmod. Software center didn't crash, but apport caught this traceback.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 6 19:09:49 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101231)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center --with-weblive
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '--with-weblive']
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: software-center crashed with TypeError in create_automatic_user_and_run_session(): 'int' object is not subscriptable
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Thanks for the bug report.

This traceback shows that the server refused the creation of the user.
Next version of the code will at least return meaningful errors :)

Can you give me your username and your hostname ?

That's what's being used to generate a username and password on the weblive and server and is probably containing characters that are rejected by the server.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Stéphane Graber <email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you give me your username and your hostname ?

andrew@andrew-testing

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Ok, the "-" is the problem :(

I updated the code to use a random value based on the system boot_id which should be fine on all systems.
Can you try the following:

 - Install "bzr" (sudo apt-get install bzr)
 - bzr get lp:~weblive-dev/software-center/software-center-use-module
 - cd software-center-use-module
 - ./software-center --with-weblive

This will install bzr, get my development branch of the software-center and start software-center using the new code I just commited.

Thanks

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

I updated my blog post to mention the restriction and suggest using the development branch for these who are affected, until the fix is merged in software-center's trunk

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Thanks for the quick work! I can can confirm this issue is fixed.
Though I seem to be having another seemingly unrelated problem. The
weblive session starts up, but the connection is closed within
seconds. Full log at: http://paste.ubuntu.com/576751/ Should I open
another bug?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Hmm... I think that the second problem was the program I was testing (Calibre) crashing. I can't reproduce that with other programs.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

I started lrfviewer from a gnome-terminal on edubuntu-natty01 and it spits some X errors, so it's probably lrfviewer crashing instead of an actual NX/WebLive issue.

I'm going to mark this bug fix commited until we have the branch merged into software-center.

For Calibre, you may want to file a separate but against calibre itself and ask whoever will work on a fix to just test it with WebLive.

Thanks !

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

The branch has been merged and released.