Bug 47879 – straw (0.22.1) ebuild fails to open display

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Albert Hopkins (RETIRED) 2004-04-14 20:58:25 UTC]

Attempting to emerge straw, I get the following error:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 43, in ?    from _gtk import *
RuntimeError: could not open display
 * The gnome-python gtkhtml2 module was not found.
 * Rebuild gnome-python using:
 *   USE="gtkhtml" emerge gnome-python
                                                                                
!!! ERROR: net-www/straw-0.22.1 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 35, Exitcode 0
!!! missing gtkhtml2 python module
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I was able to get around this by "export DISPLAY=:0" and "xhost +" on my X server, but I think it should not need a DISPLAY to build (there may be no way around this).

[Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-04-19 06:48:29 UTC]

wasn't sure weither to assign it to the gnome or python herd

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2004-04-19 08:08:34 UTC]

more a pygtk problem i think ?

[Comment 3 Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED) 2004-05-01 08:07:01 UTC]

"""
if ! python -c 'import gtk; import gtkhtml2'; then
     eerror "The gnome-python gtkhtml2 module was not found."
     eerror "Rebuild gnome-python using:"
     eerror "  USE=\"gtkhtml\" emerge gnome-python"
     die "missing gtkhtml2 python module"
fi
"""

replacing above code in straw-0.22.1.ebuild with this should fix:
"""
if ! grep gtkhtml /var/db/pkg/dev-python/gnome-python-*/USE &>/dev/null; then
     eerror "You have to emerge gnome-python with gtkhtml in USE"
     die "missing gtkhtml2 python module"
fi
"""

[Comment 4 Lukasz Strzygowski (RETIRED) 2004-05-02 10:35:56 UTC]

kloeri told me to use virtualx instead of grepping /var/db/... so here is corrected function:

"""
pkg_setup() {
    export maketype="python -c"
    if ! virtualmake 'import gtk; import gtkhtml2'; then
        eerror "The gnome-python gtkhtml2 module was not found."
        eerror "Rebuild gnome-python using:"
        eerror "  USE=\"gtkhtml\" emerge gnome-python"
        die "missing gtkhtml2 python module"
    fi
}
"""

it doesn't work without a little change if virtualmake function in virtualx.eclass. we need to change
${maketype} $* to: ${maketype} "$*", because even with correct quotes it will split virtualmake arguments into 'import' 'gtk;' 'import' 'gtkhtml2'.

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-06-26 13:31:14 UTC]

how about using this?

export maketype="python"
echo "import pygtk; import gtkhtml2" | virtualmake

this (in theory) should work the same way

[Comment 6 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-06-26 14:58:29 UTC]

fixed for 0.22.1 and 0.23.