[Reportbug-maint] Bug#555633: reportbug dies with a sys.excepthook error

[Sandro Tosi]

severity 555633 minor
thanks

Hello Kent,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 17:49, Kent West <westk at acu.edu> wrote:
> Package: reportbug
> Version: 4.8
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

Ehm, no: there's something broken on your installation; I didn't close
the bug because I may help you debugging it.

> westk at westek:~$ reportbug
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error in sys.excepthook:

canberra-gtk-module ? we don't use it.

> Original exception was:
> westk at westek:~$ reportbug
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py:446: PangoWarning: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
>  gtk.main ()
> westk at westek:~$ reportbug --configure
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Error in sys.excepthook:
>
> Original exception was:
> westk at westek:~$ reportbug
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> ** Environment settings:
> INTERFACE="gtk2"
>
> ** /home/westk/.reportbugrc:
> reportbug_version "4.8"
> mode novice
> ui gtk2
> email "westk at acu.edu"
> no-cc
> header "X-Debbugs-CC: westk at acu.edu"
> smtphost reportbug.debian.org
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>  APT prefers stable
>  APT policy: (500, 'stable')

you're using reportbug at version 4.8 (which is only in
unstable/testing) but your apt is configure to only look at 'stable'
release. You have installed by hand some packages from
unstable/testing, ain't you? that broke your system.

> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
> ii  apt                      0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii  python                   2.5.4-2         An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python-reportbug         4.8             Python modules for interacting wit
>
> reportbug recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
> pn  debconf-utils                <none>      (no description available)
> pn  debsums                      <none>      (no description available)
> pn  dlocate                      <none>      (no description available)
> ii  exim4                        4.69-11     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
> ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tra 4.69-11+b1  lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
> ii  file                         5.03-2      Determines file type using "magic"
> ii  gnupg                        1.4.10-2    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
> ii  python-gtk2                  2.12.1-6    Python bindings for the GTK+ widge

and you're still using the stable version of this module.

> pn  python-gtkspell              <none>      (no description available)
> pn  python-urwid                 <none>      (no description available)
> ii  python-vte                   1:0.16.14-4 Python bindings for the VTE widget
> ii  xdg-utils                    1.0.2-6.1   desktop integration utilities from

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi