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

[Kent West]

Sandro Tosi wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Thank you.

>> 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.
>   

Yeah, I have no idea what it is.


>> 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.
>   

Ah, now this starts to make sense.

I had been running unstable, but then something broke in X so that my
dual-monitor setup stopped working, and I tried for about six months to
get it to work again, and finally gave up, and thought I had purged
enough of the unstable system and reinstall it from stable to have my
world working again, but apparently I missed something.

In this case, it's pretty obvious to me that we're not looking at a bug
in reportbug, but a failure on my part to run a clean system (and
perhaps more generally in Debian's inability to downgrade the system - meh).

I suggest you go ahead and close the bug report; it's not a problem on
your end, but on mine. (I don't expect to get it fixed anytime soon
without a clean reinstall, so I'll just have to live with the various
glitches that arise; it's my own fault for trusting unstable without
really knowing what I'm doing (which worked for me for about 8 years
without any real glitches).)

Thanks!

>   
>> 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,
>   


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