Bugzilla Bug 202797

I don't know, if it's a bug. If it is, I don't know if it's in rox-session,
rox-lib or dev-lang/python' logging.py.
For quite awhile (over a year) I've been getting traceback at rox-session
start.
It did not prevent rox-session from running, was annoying nevertheless.
Lately I've decided to ask a question about it on rox-devel.
I did not received a full answer, but something came up.
I was advised to change in logging.py
msg = msg % self.args
to 
msg = repr([msg] + self.args)
That was giving a traceback too, but when I change it to
msg = repr ([msg].extend(self.args))
traceback was gone and the message printed was
WARNING:root:None
So does anybody have an idea if it's a bug, and if so, which package gives it ?

As a sidenote, does anybody know a way to view all sourceforge lists online,
cause the problem I had with rox-devel happens on other lists too, and not all
are on gmane (at least, I don't think they are) ?

I'm just starting to test ROX -- you seem to have gotten further than I have. I
can't even get the window manager to come up. See bug 204239

> Lately I've decided to ask a question about it on rox-devel.
> I did not received a full answer, but something came up.

Yes, I saw this there - Very curious, especially your latest result
incorporating Thomas's latest suggestion.

What does the following command return when on your system:

$ grep 'failed:' /usr/lib/rox/ROX-Session/*.py

I hope your answer *should* rule out any bug in the way Gentoo installed
ROX-Session.

Well, it returns:
/usr/lib/rox/ROX-Session/xsettings.py:                  warn('%s failed: %s',
(cmd[0], exc))

And (I failed to mention it in upstream post) same warning as for xset is
printed for xgamma (I got it after I removed logging.pyo, so that's why it's
missing there).

Here's a useful fix:  I'll just make rox-session include xset and xgamma.  I
know this isn't *really* a fix of the logging issue, which should be resolved
by upstream.  But it should get rid of the errors if xset and xgamma are
available for rox-session to run.

Once the changes hit the rsync mirrors, reinstall rox-session-0.30-r3 (Check
first to ensure that this reinstall will install xset and xgamma).  Or
alternatively, you can just run this:

  emerge xset xgamma

Hopefully that will make things better on your system.

I'm not sure what I can do about the other logging issue, but I'll keep this
bug open until it is solved.

Well, the catch is, though xgamma is not on my system, xset is.
More details:
at this time (while xgamma is not emerged) warning for xgamma is:
WARNING:root:xgamma failed
(so OK)
for xset it's the one with `interrupted system call` and it's printed twice, so
this may be some race condition. So I don't think emerging xgamma will fix
this.
So this are two bugs: one for logging.py and one for this 'possible race
condition or something'

If, for some reason, somebody is still following this bug, you should know that
the traceback part has been solved on sourceforge list (too minor for a new
release). It was a simple typo in one of rox-session files.
The 'errno 4' part is still there, my uneducated guess is it's some kind of
race condition, but that doesn't bug me as much as the traceback did.

Okay, I have incorporated upstream's logging patch into
rox-base/rox-session-0.30-r4

Enjoy!