[Reportbug-maint] repotbug not loading ui

[Dave Witbrodt]

Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:07, Dave Witbrodt <dawitbro at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
>>> I have used reportbug successfully a few times with the urwid interface
>>> without any problems. However, recently I can't get reportbug to load
>>> urwid or even gtk2 ui settings.
>>>
>>> Tried to look at the bug reports posted on debian but no luck. Even
>>> tried reconfiguring and using debug mode but can't figure it out.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> This is reportbug 4.1 with debian squeeze all packages up to date as of
>>> this email.
>> I have also never been able to try out the new gtk2 interface.  When I try
>> to get the GUI interface from a menu, nothing happens -- not even an error
>> message in a log file.  When I try from an X terminal, I get the text
>> interface instead of the GUI interface.
>>
>> I believe this is a known bug:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524857
>>
>> I'm waiting for this bug to be closed, and the next release of 'reportbug'
>> after than, before pursuing this problem further.  I'm so used to using the
>> text interface, anyway, that merely consider the situation annoying.
> 
> This is a known issue, already fixed in our git repo; the next upload
> will fix this too.

I just upgraded from 'reportbug' 4.1 to 4.2.  The gtk2 interface seems 
to work nicely -- at least it comes up now, and I can actually see it 
for the first time -- so I'll be able to give it a try the next time I 
have a bug to report.

(I was going to try it out by commenting on this bug in the 'reportbug' 
package, but it was already closed.  I found that the latest 
'debianutils' had a 'tempfile' program which was crashing and preventing 
X from loading, but that also was already reported, fixed, and closed.)


Thanks,
Dave W.