glipper crashed with ImportError in <module>()

This happens because "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/keybinder/_keybinder.so" is linked against libffi4, but libffi5 is installed in Interpid and libffi4 is not a dependency of glipper.

Temporary solution, copied libffi4.so from hardy and glipper is working. Still, glipper should be updated to use libffi5.so for a permanent fix.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libffi4

Yeah, that worked flawlessly!

So, a simple rebuild on builders should help?

When I try unikuser's temporary solution, I get this output:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: gcc-4.2-base

And it won't let me install libffi4

I had to force the install "sudo dpkg -i --force-all libffi4.deb"
But apt removes it when it gets the chance.

This bug was fixed in the package glipper - 1.0-1ubuntu2

---------------
glipper (1.0-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    + Add missing shlibs:Depends to Depends.
  * debian/rules:
    + Call dh_shlibdeps. We want our magical dependency resolution!
  * Rebuild removes hidden dependency on libffi4 (LP: #257052)

 -- Christopher James Halse Rogers <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:08:19 +1000

It works! Its alive! Thank you soo much!

glipper still crashed on login on my setup, see screenshot.

glipper still crashed on login on my setup, see screenshot.

_sAm_: try
$ rm -fr ~/.glipper

Pavel, this doesn't work as this crash appears "randomly". Anything has
changed since Hardy was released.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Pavel Vrany <email address hidden> wrote:

> _sAm_: try
> $ rm -fr ~/.glipper
>
> --
> glipper crashed with ImportError in <module>()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257052
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

I'm using Ibex now, and the problem persists.

It seems to me, that the application crashes _only_, when it is about to be added to the panel at startup.

This looks like the initialization of the panel happens earlier than glipper is available, but I'm only guessing.

I've gotten sick and tired of Ibex being so crashy so I reverted back to 8.04 (when I say reverted, I mean I backed up my home dir, paved the partition, and installed a fresh 8.04).

Glipper is doing the exact same thing for my hardy install - occasionally crashing on startup. It's 100% reliable that it WILL crash on the first login when the computer is started up. Once the first login has been done, I can log out, then log back in and most of the time it won't crash (though sometimes it will still crash).

I don't think Gergely's theory holds water, since it's not a panel error, it's actually glipper crashing when it tries to start up. I think it's more likely that glipper has a dependency that isn't starting until after glipper itself. (Part of me wonders if this stems back to the libffi change, since I never had any glipper issues before 1.0-1ubuntu2 was rolled out to accommodate Ibex users)

Is there a way to force apt to install the previous version instead, and to prevent apt from removing the previous version next time update-manager runs?

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