Error loading spell plugin

[Jens Sauer]

Debian stretch
Zim: 0.65
python-gtkspellcheck: 3.0-1.1
Gtk version is (2, 24, 29)
Pygtk version is (2, 24, 0)

I wanted to activate the spellcheck plugin, but can't find it in the list of plugins.

Running "zim -D", I got the following error after opening the preferences dialog:

ERROR: Could not load plugin spell
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/gui/preferencesdialog.py", line 307, in __init__
    klass = self.plugins.get_plugin_class(key)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/plugins/__init__.py", line 208, in get_plugin_class
    mod = get_module(modname)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/utils.py", line 33, in get_module
    mod = __import__(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/plugins/spell.py", line 22, in <module>
    import gtkspellcheck
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtkspellcheck/__init__.py", line 57, in <module>
    from gtkspellcheck.spellcheck import SpellChecker
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtkspellcheck/spellcheck.py", line 32, in <module>
    from pylocales import code_to_name
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylocales/__init__.py", line 55, in <module>
    from pylocales.locales import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylocales/locales.py", line 54, in <module>
    _database = sqlite3.connect(os.path.join(__path__, 'locales.db'))
OperationalError: unable to open database file

The file 'locales.db' in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pylocales/ is a symbolic link to
/usr/share/pyshared/pylocales/locales.db which is part of the same package.

Because the python-gtkspellcheck package is unchanged since 2013, I thought it could be a bug in zim.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

I think it is a problem with gtkspellcheck, not with zim. Looking at the error log you see the error happens as soon as zim tries to import the package.

To verify you could just run python from a terminal and try "import gtkspellcheck" - expect it will give the same error.

Regards,

Jaap

[Jens Sauer (jsauer-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Jaap,
you are right. The same error occurs when running python from terminal.
I just didn't know how to verify that.

Regards,

Jens