Cryptic error message when trying to install "Tasklist" from the ROX desktop

[melkart]

Binary package hint: zeroinstall-injector

On Ubuntu 9.04, I install zeroinstall-injector, download ROX-All from roscidus.com, unpack
it, run "./rox", add ROX to login. (after having set up my root account, so
I can enter a root password)

Then I log in into ROX desktop. When I drag and drop apps/Utility/Tasklist
on the panel, I get an error as shown in the following screenshot:

http://i40.tinypic.com/19xc0m.png

Zeroinstall is version 0.39-1ubuntu1

[Thomas Leonard (talex5)]

Looks like downloads from FTP sites don't work when used with Python 2.6. Does the version below fix it?

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zero-install/zeroinstall-injector_0.40-1_all.deb

[Thomas Leonard (talex5)]

Reported fixed in 0.40:

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Broken-Tasklist-Widget-under-Ubuntu-9.04-p23236158.html

[Thomas Leonard (talex5)]

0.40 is now in Debian/unstable. Since this was mostly a bug-fix release anyway, it may be best to sync from there. The release notes are here:

http://www.gnomefiles.org/version.php?soft_id=921

Alternatively, the patch is here:

http://repo.or.cz/w/zeroinstall.git?a=commitdiff;h=c085406f4f73564869fad6b7c859b10e79c8ec7f

(the comment is misleading; the problem was originally seen on FreeBSD, but now affects Ubuntu too)

Let me know if a debdiff would be better than syncing from Debian.

[Thomas Leonard (talex5)]

Another bug report about this:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user/9110/focus=9122

What's the process to get the fixed version into the archive?

[Thomas Leonard (talex5)]

Fixed in 9.10 I guess.