gdesklets in hardy unusable due to an unhandled error

I can confirm this on an up-to-date installation of hardy alpha 5.

New -> Confirmed

The thing is that ubuntu still ships a broken version of gdesklets. I don't
know what we can do to ship v0.36.

2007-12-08 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigDate.py: Fixed #163671 and other little errors

2007-10-07 Robert Pastierovic <email address hidden>

 * doc/basic: added xml (docbook) basic documentation and Makefiles accordingly
 * Makefile.am: fixed creation of broken link, added new folder
        * configure.in: added new folders
        * shell/plugins/Help/_init_.py: added menu entry (Help/Contents) for viewing Documentation using yelp doc viewer

2007-08-23 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * display/Display.py: fixed and improved About Window
 * gdesklets-daemon: stop importing init from main (not needed anymore)

2007-08-10 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigInfo.py: Fixed #126188
 * doc/book/gfx/prefs-info.png:
 * doc/book/gfx/prefs-page.png:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-info.xml:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-page.xml: updated documentation

2007-08-07 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * display/Display.py: enhancements and bugfixes in the About Window

2007-08-05 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigDialog.py:
 * config/DaemonConfigger.py:
 * config/DisplayConfigger.py:
 * display/Display.py: Fixed #124464 (#434858 on bugs.gnome.org)

2007-08-04 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * display/Display.py: destroy the About Window when removing the display

2007-08-03 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * display/Display.py:
 * factory/DisplayFactory.py: added first beta of the About Window
 * utils/tiling.c: included "#include GSList *closures;" again: fixes crashes on (my) amd64 gentoo

2007-07-25 Christian Meyer <email address hidden>

 * configure.in: Bumped library versions.
 * utils/: Removed eggcode. We now depend on gtk2.10.
 * main/TrayIcon.py: Use GtkStatusIcon. Needs to be fixed.

2007-07-23 Christian Meyer <email address hidden>

 * shell/plugins/Shell/__init__.py: Don't use deprecated threads_init()
 call of gtk. It's been moved to gtk.gdk.

2007-07-14 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigInfo.py:
 * config/ConfigDialog.py:
 * config/Makefile.am: new config element (ConfigInfo)
 * doc/book/gfx/prefs-date.png:
 * doc/book/gfx/prefs-info.png:
 * doc/book/gfx/prefs-radio.png:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-date.xml:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-info.xml:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-radio.xml:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-item.xml:
 * doc/book/prefs-tag-unit.xml:
 * doc/book/prefs.xml: added docs for the new config elements (Date, Info and Radio)

2007-07-04 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigList.py:
 * config/makefile.am:
 * factory/DisplayFactory.py: new config element (ConfigList)
 * utils/datatypes.py: Changed "TYPE_FLOAT" to (lambda r: float(r)) as "float(v)" raised errors (typo?)

2007-07-04 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigDialog.py: added "Icons in the prefs tabs", still waiting for #434858 to be fixed.
 * config/makefile.am:
 * data/makefile.am: added missing new files

2007-07-04 Christian Meyer <email address hidden>

 * display/GlassWindow.py: Fixed #44129.

2007-07-04 Bjoern Koch <email address hidden>

 * config/ConfigDate.py:
 * config/ConfigRadio.py: new config elements
 * config/ConfigButton.py:
 * config/ConfigColor.py:
 * config/ConfigDialog.py:
 * config/ConfigEnum.py:
 *...

I'd call that a ChangeLog...

Please sync gdesklets 0.36-1 from debian (unstable)

Ubuntu changes and why they are no longer relevant:

 * Build-Depend on debhelper (>= 5.0.7ubuntu13) to fix the postrm breakage

Debhelper version bumped to 6

 * debian/patches/02_trayicon_transparency.patch

Included upstream now

 * debian/control.in: replaced obsolete dependency python-orbit with
    python-pyorbit to make the package installable again

Debian now depends on python-pyorbit as well

== Debian Changelog ==

 gdesklets (0.36-1) unstable; urgency=high

   * New upstream release.
     + Adjust build-depends and depends fields as per configure.in
     + Fix watch file to work again, and fix GNOME_DOWNLOAD_URL in
       debian/rules as well.
     + Regenerate 70_relibtoolize.diff for new version. Also run
       `intltoolize' when relibtoolizing to regenerate intltool-*.in which
       solves the `@INTLTOOL_ICONV@ not being substituted' issue. And drop
       10_intltools-merge_fix.diff as no longer needed any more.
   * Refine debian/copyright to have copyright holder and text.
   * Follow Debian Python Policy to avoid residues after purge. Details:
     + Bump cdbs build-depends to >= 0.4.49.
     + Add python-support to build-depend in control file.
     + Add XS-Python-Version and XB-Python-Version fields in control file.
     + Run 'dh_pysupport -pgdesklets' in binary-post-install/gdesklets
       rule.
     Thanks Josselin Mouette and Loïc Minier for suggestions.
     (Closes: #466243)
   * Fix RC bug, bump urgency.

 -- Deng Xiyue <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:10:11 +0800
gdesklets (0.35.4-1) unstable; urgency=high

   [ Loic Minier ]
   * Drop config.guess and config.sub from 01_relibtoolise.diff; build-deps on
     autotools-dev.

   [ Kilian Krause ]
   * Add get-orig-source target.

   [ Deng Xiyue ]
   * New upstream version.
     + Loosened pyorbit version check, fixes RC bug, hence the urgency.
       (Closes: #445254)
   * debian/control*
     + Update standard version to 3.7.3.
   * debian/copyright
     + Fix upstream URL.
     + Point to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
   * debian/rules
     + Fix GNOME_DOWNLOAD_URL.
   * debian/menu
     + Fix section to Applications/System/Monitoring.
     + Don't use png icon in debian menu.
   * debian/patches
     + Regenerate 01_relibtoolise.diff
     + Add 10_intltools-merge_fix.diff to specify /usr/bin/iconv as
       previous releases instead of @INTLTOOL_ICONV@, or it'll FTBFS.
   * debian/watch
     + Fix URL. (Closes: #449663)

   [ Loic Minier ]
   * Wrap build-deps and deps.
   * Cleanups.
   * Print "GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=" before printing the value of this env var --
     looks like old debug output.
   * Use set -e in maintainer scripts.
   * Drop obsolete NEWS.Debian.
   * Rename 01_relibtoolise to 70_relibtoolize.
   * Add a python-pyorbit (>= 2.0.1) dep.
   * Drop config.guess and .sub from the relibtoolizing patch, 70_relibtoolize.
   * Bump up Debhelper compatibility level to 6.
   * New patch, 02_trayicon-transparency, make the applet use the background
     pixmap as to not break transparent panels; from Ubuntu.
   * Drop patch 02_trayicon-transparency, seems usele...

Successful build log attached.

Thanks a lot! I don't know what took you so long ;-)

Please also address Bug #199014 in this upload. Do that and I'll ack.

debdiff gdesklets_0.36-1.dsc gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.dsc > gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.debdiff

 gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge from debian, remaining changes:
     - debian/control: Move gdesklets-data from recommends to depends
   * debian/control: Remove depend on python-xml (lp: #199014)
   * Closes lp: #197650
Files:
 f7aaf1b99eae1347cfd19a5c86c85a50 1054 gnome optional gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.dsc
 61e2ac428a9743dc7760bd6a5bffb178 3444474 gnome optional gdesklets_0.36.orig.tar.gz
 194ee7dbacc4e59d00e753323250bbdd 124096 gnome optional gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.diff.gz

Thanks guys!

Ack#1 from me for motu-release. From a sponsorship perspective you need to change the maintainer. Also I find your debian/changelog entry confusing. You migh be a bit more verbose to make it clearer for the next person to touch the package.

Changes:
 gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control{,.in}:
     - Drop depend on python-xml (lp: #199014)
     - Updated maintainer fields
     - Move gdesklets-data from recommends to depends
   * Closes lp: #197650

Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
> Changes:
> gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
> .
> * debian/control{,.in}:
> - Drop depend on python-xml (lp: #199014)
> - Updated maintainer fields
> - Move gdesklets-data from recommends to depends
> * Closes lp: #197650
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "updated debdiff"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12687654/gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.debdiff
>
>
Hi,

the new release 0.36 contains 4 supported gdesklets applets (Calendar,
Clock, Quote-of-the-Day and 15pieces).
We would like to break dependancy upon the gdesklets-data package which
contains many unusable applets and therefore may frustrate users and
discourage them from using gdesklets.
gdesklets-data package needs to be heavily updated and now as 4 applets
are part of the core there's no need to have that depandency.
Please make it this way.

Thanks,

Robo

Okay, no problem.

I've attached the updated debdiff (debdiff gdesklets_0.36-1.dsc gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.dsc > gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.debdiff)

Changes:
 gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control{,.in}:
     - Drop dependency on python-xml (lp: #199014)
     - Updated maintainer fields
     - Updated package description to be more accurate
       regarding which packages provide applets
   * Closes lp: #197650

looks sane to me, ACK #2, please go ahead.

jdong noticed that the sid package ships with a malformed control file. This new debdiff corrects it.

Changes:
 gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control{,.in}:
     - Drop deprecated dependency on python-xml (lp: #199014)
     - Updated maintainer fields
     - Updated package description to be more accurate
       regarding which packages provide applets
     - Fixed malformed build-dependency on libglib2.0-dev and libgtk2.0-dev
   * Closes lp: #197650

Updated debdiff again to remove duplicate build-depend on libglib2.0-dev

debdiff gdesklets_0.36-1.dsc gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.dsc > gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1.debdiff

Changes:
 gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control{,.in}:
     - Drop deprecated dependency on python-xml (lp: #199014)
     - Updated maintainer fields
     - Updated package description to be more accurate
       regarding which packages provide applets
     - Fixed malformed build-dependency on libglib2.0-dev and libgtk2.0-dev
     - Removed duplicate build-depend on libglib2.0-dev
   * Closes lp: #197650

Uploaded. Thank you for your contribution to Ubuntu.

This bug was fixed in the package gdesklets - 0.36-1ubuntu1

---------------
gdesklets (0.36-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control{,.in}:
    - Drop deprecated dependency on python-xml (lp: #199014)
    - Updated maintainer fields
    - Updated package description to be more accurate
      regarding which packages provide applets
    - Fixed malformed build-dependency on libglib2.0-dev and libgtk2.0-dev
    - Removed duplicate build-depend on libglib2.0-dev
  * Closes lp: #197650

gdesklets (0.36-1) unstable; urgency=high

  * New upstream release.
    + Adjust build-depends and depends fields as per configure.in
    + Fix watch file to work again, and fix GNOME_DOWNLOAD_URL in
      debian/rules as well.
    + Regenerate 70_relibtoolize.diff for new version. Also run
      `intltoolize' when relibtoolizing to regenerate intltool-*.in which
      solves the `@INTLTOOL_ICONV@ not being substituted' issue. And drop
      10_intltools-merge_fix.diff as no longer needed any more.
  * Refine debian/copyright to have copyright holder and text.
  * Follow Debian Python Policy to avoid residues after purge. Details:
    + Bump cdbs build-depends to >= 0.4.49.
    + Add python-support to build-depend in control file.
    + Add XS-Python-Version and XB-Python-Version fields in control file.
    + Run 'dh_pysupport -pgdesklets' in binary-post-install/gdesklets
      rule.
    Thanks Josselin Mouette and Loïc Minier for suggestions.
    (Closes: #466243)
  * Fix RC bug, bump urgency.

gdesklets (0.35.4-1) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Loic Minier ]
  * Drop config.guess and config.sub from 01_relibtoolise.diff; build-deps on
    autotools-dev.

  [ Kilian Krause ]
  * Add get-orig-source target.

  [ Deng Xiyue ]
  * New upstream version.
    + Loosened pyorbit version check, fixes RC bug, hence the urgency.
      (Closes: #445254)
  * debian/control*
    + Update standard version to 3.7.3.
  * debian/copyright
    + Fix upstream URL.
    + Point to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
  * debian/rules
    + Fix GNOME_DOWNLOAD_URL.
  * debian/menu
    + Fix section to Applications/System/Monitoring.
    + Don't use png icon in debian menu.
  * debian/patches
    + Regenerate 01_relibtoolise.diff
    + Add 10_intltools-merge_fix.diff to specify /usr/bin/iconv as
      previous releases instead of @INTLTOOL_ICONV@, or it'll FTBFS.
  * debian/watch
    + Fix URL. (Closes: #449663)

  [ Loic Minier ]
  * Wrap build-deps and deps.
  * Cleanups.
  * Print "GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=" before printing the value of this env var --
    looks like old debug output.
  * Use set -e in maintainer scripts.
  * Drop obsolete NEWS.Debian.
  * Rename 01_relibtoolise to 70_relibtoolize.
  * Add a python-pyorbit (>= 2.0.1) dep.
  * Drop config.guess and .sub from the relibtoolizing patch, 70_relibtoolize.
  * Bump up Debhelper compatibility level to 6.
  * New patch, 02_trayicon-transparency, make the applet use the background
    pixmap as to not break transparent panels; from Ubuntu.
  * Drop patch 02_trayicon-transparency, seems useless with the new upstream
    release.

gdesklets (0.35.3-4) unstable; urgency=high

  * Don't ship /usr/share/mime/mime.cache. (Closes: ...

I received this error when I deployed my desklet from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 :

"ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
==========================================================[08/05/08-20:59:51]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/ItemBrowser.py: line 114 __on_activate_item
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/Observable.py: line 45 update_observer
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/plugins/DisplayBrowser/__init__.py: line 121 __on_activate
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/plugins/gDeskletsClient/__init__.py: line 36 open_display
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 54 open_display
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 38 __send
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 75 recv
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py

[---] 70 chunk = ""
[---] 71 while (True):
[---] 72 try:
[---] 73 length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---] 74 except:
[ERR]> 75 raise XDRError
[---] 76
[---] 77 if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---] 78
[---] 79 flag = s.recv(1)
[---] 80 if (flag == _CONT): continue
[---] 81

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
"

After step by step troubleshooting I found out my bug started because of the switch from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 and was created because of a "text" tag in one of my svg canvas from my desklet:
Example:
  <text x="250" y="150"
        font-family="Verdana" font-size="55" fill="blue" >
    Hello, out there
  </text>

I think gdesklets crashes when it comes to </text> because with <text x="250" y="150" font-family="Verdana" font-size="55" fill="blue" /> it works even though it's empty.

gDesklets still crashes and it has the same symptoms.

I received this error when I deployed my desklet from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 :

"ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
==========================================================[08/05/08-20:59:51]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/ItemBrowser.py: line 114 __on_activate_item
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/Observable.py: line 45 update_observer
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/plugins/DisplayBrowser/__init__.py: line 121 __on_activate
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/shell/plugins/gDeskletsClient/__init__.py: line 36 open_display
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 54 open_display
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 38 __send
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 75 recv
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py

[---] 70 chunk = ""
[---] 71 while (True):
[---] 72 try:
[---] 73 length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---] 74 except:
[ERR]> 75 raise XDRError
[---] 76
[---] 77 if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---] 78
[---] 79 flag = s.recv(1)
[---] 80 if (flag == _CONT): continue
[---] 81

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
"

After step by step troubleshooting I found out my bug started because of the switch from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 and was created because of a "text" tag in one of my svg canvas from my desklet:
Example:
  <text x="250" y="150"
        font-family="Verdana" font-size="55" fill="blue" >
    Hello, out there
  </text>

I think gdesklets crashes when it comes to </text> because with <text x="250" y="150" font-family="Verdana" font-size="55" fill="blue" /> it works even though it's empty.

> After step by step troubleshooting I found out my bug started because of
> the switch from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5

Both Hardy (8.04) and Intrepid (to be 8.10) use Python 2.5 as their default.
Ubuntu switched to Python 2.5 as default in Feisty (7.04).

Oh, then I must be wrong on what changed from 8.04 to 8.10. But as I mentioned earlier I get this unhandled error on 8.10 when I use in my gdesklet a svg with <text>Word</text> tag inside, even though it used to work in 8.04.

And I'm sorry for the double post earlier, I'm new to bug reporting on launchpad and I can't see how I can remove that message now.

It can't be removed without finding a db admin to go in and manually edit the
database. It's not worth it. Don't worry about it.

I've been using Launchpad for years and I still find it confusing.

Try python 2.4 and everything should be fine. There are reports about python
2.5 not working. I honestly don't know what ubuntu has been doing...it's
just quite strange!

Hi,

unsubscribed motu-release: nothing we can do about past releases, motu-sru might be more appropriate.
unsubscribed ubuntu-universe-sponsors: nothing more to sponsor (resubscribe if different debdiff is found).

Cheers,
       Stefan.

Lowering severity due to extant workaround with python version

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

Ubuntu 8.04_3 amd 64

gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1
python2.4 (after I did not manage to start desklets I installed 2.4)

After start I can see the window but it's greyed after short period of time it was closed.

Starting gdesklets-daemon...
Connecting to daemon [ ### ]
==========================================================[01/04/10-16:45:14]===
Could not import tiling module!

Cannot establish connection to daemon: timeout!
The log file might help you solving the problem.

Log file was empty (almost empty)
Log messages of /home/user/.gdesklets/logs/gdesklets%3A0.0.log

I expected to get fixed version from repository.

Should I applied this patch?
debdiff gdesklets_0.36-1 -> gdesklets_0.36-1ubuntu1

[Expired for gdesklets (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]