solfege crashes at startup

[Cousin Marc]

Binary package hint: solfege

At startup, solfege crashes. Here are the console messages :

solfege
Checking for gtkhtml2... No module named gtkhtml2
warning: invalid directory in path: /home/marc/lessonfiles
Solfege will use fakesynth
/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py:436: GtkWarning: Refusing to add non-unique action '_Rhythm' to action group 'NotExit'
  self.m_action_groups['NotExit'].add_actions(actions)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/solfege", line 77, in <module>
    src.mainwin.start_app(os.path.join(prefix, "share", "solfege"))
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py", line 802, in start_app
    w.post_constructor()
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py", line 640, in post_constructor
    self.m_app.display_sound_init_error_message(self.m_app.m_sound_init_exception)
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/app.py", line 158, in display_sound_init_error_message
    self.m_ui.display_exception_message(e)
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py", line 497, in display_exception_message
    sourcefile, lineno, func, code = traceback.extract_tb(sys.exc_info()[2])[0]

It seems to be this bug :

http://www.solfege.org/SITS/00167

Solfege version : 3.9.3-4 (from hardy beta)

apt-cache policy solfege
solfege:
  Installed: 3.9.3-4
  Candidate: 3.9.3-4
  Version table:
 *** 3.9.3-4 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

TEST CASE

PROCEDURE:
  Install solfege binary package
  Run solfege

RESULT ON PASS:
  If no MIDI device is available, a message window should appear stating that.

RESULT ON FAIL:
  If no MIDI device available, program crashes as above.

END TEST CASE

[Basil Shubin (bashux)]

I can confirm this bug in Ubuntu 8.04:

$ apt-cache show solfege
Package: solfege
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Installed-Size: 8536
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Tom Cato Amundsen <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.9.3-4
Depends: python-gnome2 (>= 1.99.11), python-gnome2-extras (>= 2.10.0), python-gtk2 (>= 1.99.11), timidity, freepats, libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.7.1), python (<< 2.6)
Suggests: doc-base
Filename: pool/universe/s/solfege/solfege_3.9.3-4_i386.deb
Size: 2168880

[n0mer (n0mer)]

confirm, too
> dpkg -l | grep solfege
ii solfege 3.9.3-4 Ear training program for GNOME2

[Daniel BERMON (daniel-bermon)]

I confirm too this crash on 8.04 (UBUNTUSTUDIO).
The crash occured first time after upgrading from ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (beta).
Solfege crashes also on a fresh 8.04 install.
Manually creating the missing folder "lessonfiles" cures the warning but Solfege crashes anyway.

daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ solfege
Checking for gtkhtml2... ok
warning: invalid directory in path: /home/daniel/lessonfiles
Solfege will use fakesynth
/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py:436: GtkWarning: Refusing to add non-unique action '_Rhythm' to action group 'NotExit'
  self.m_action_groups['NotExit'].add_actions(actions)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/solfege", line 77, in <module>
    src.mainwin.start_app(os.path.join(prefix, "share", "solfege"))
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py", line 802, in start_app
    w.post_constructor()
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py", line 640, in post_constructor
    self.m_app.display_sound_init_error_message(self.m_app.m_sound_init_exception)
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/app.py", line 158, in display_sound_init_error_message
    self.m_ui.display_exception_message(e)
  File "/usr/share/solfege/src/mainwin.py", line 497, in display_exception_message
    sourcefile, lineno, func, code = traceback.extract_tb(sys.exc_info()[2])[0]
IndexError: list index out of range
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$

[Daniel BERMON (daniel-bermon)]

I was able to run SOLFEGE with a little trick :

1) from the console, run solfege --no-sound :
    solfege starts (of course without sound)

2) inside solfege, do :
    "file" "preferences" "sound setup"

3) choose a midi setup that returns no error.
the first choice : "no sound" is the easiest choice !
On my system, i had to choose "use external midiplayer"

5) than save the changes, and exit.

6)Run solfege again from a console, from a desktop shortcut, or from a menu.

7) Et voila ! No crash, sound activated, enjoy the music !

I hope this helped!

Daniel

[n0mer (n0mer)]

confirm, this "--no-sound" thick worked for me too
thanks Daniel!

[Owen Tuz (owentuz)]

I can also confirm this works, thanks!

[Angelo Corazzato (angelocorazzato)]

Works for me too - Ubuntu 8.04 Italian Version, if that matters :)
Thank you a lot.

[domis (tom-sepp)]

Works for me too - thanks!

[yza (yza33)]

works fine for me too (in french) , thanks Daniel !

[Franco Califano (califano1938)]

It works for me too. Thank you!

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

This bug has already been reported upstream: http://code.google.com/p/solfege/issues/detail?id=78

[Tom Cato Amundsen (tca)]

Ubuntu has a too old version of solfege. This is fixed in 3.10.1. But the workaround mentioned above using --no-sound works fine.

[shrek_master (tran-franck)]

thanks a lot

it works fine

[Rafael F. (rfcompte)]

That trick fixed it, thanks ! Any chance that the last version 3.10.4 could be backported to hardy?

[Rafael F. (rfcompte)]

I have been using in hardy the newer version of solfege from intrepid, namely solfege_3.10.3-1_i386.deb. I haven't run into any issues. It installs and runs just fine. This bug is fixed in that version and I opened a bug report in hardy-backports. If you happen to be in the mood for testing it you could drop by bug #244135 and tell us about it ;-)

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Fixed in Intrepid.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

This needs a fix for Hardy too, ACK from motu-sru.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Version 3.9.3-4ubuntu0.1 uploaded to hardy-proposed.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[ShadowMax76 (shadowmax76)]

Verification done:

- 3.9.3-4 (hardy): the program crash on startup;
- 3.9.3-4ubuntu0.1 (hardy-proposed): the program start successfully.

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

I can confirm version in hardy-proposed fixes this issue.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to hardy-updates.