Bug 319573 – app-doc/podbrowser-0.12 is not working any more

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Andreas Proteus 2010-05-13 17:52:32 UTC]

Ipodbrowser fails to start with the error message:

Can't call method "get_filename" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/podbrowser line 63.

Since I had not used podbrowser for some time I cannot tell which update caused this problem.
Reinstalling all the dependencies does not fix the problem.

Howver, I have found a patch here:

http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-dist/2010-05/msg03539.html

which fixed the problem.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ podbrowser
Can't call method "get_filename" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/podbrowser line 63

2.  Apply patch to /usr/bin/podbrowser

3. Podbrowser works!

[Comment 1 Andreas Proteus 2010-05-13 17:53:47 UTC]

Created attachment 231345 [details]
podbrowser patch

Here is the patch

[Comment 2 Andreas Proteus 2010-05-13 17:56:13 UTC]

Created attachment 231347 [details]
emerge-info

And my system's info in case is needed.

[Comment 3 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 14:35:30 UTC]

I get an error from line 192 without the patch and 205 with it.

[Comment 4 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 14:36:48 UTC]

Created attachment 231571 [details, diff]
podbrowser-0.12-ICON.patch

This is the patch I used.

[Comment 5 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 14:39:25 UTC]

Created attachment 231573 [details]
podbrowser-0.12-ebuild.diff

[Comment 6 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 14:41:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I get an error from line 192 without the patch and 205 with it.
> 
here is the error;

podbrowser
Can't call method "get_filename" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/podbrowser line 205.
It still seems to work fine.

[Comment 7 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-05-15 14:43:29 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > I get an error from line 192 without the patch and 205 with it.
> > 
> here is the error;
> 
> podbrowser
> Can't call method "get_filename" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/podbrowser
> line 205.
> It still seems to work fine.
> 
Also the SRC_URI has moved;
http://jodrell.net/files/unsupported/podbrowser/

[Comment 8 Andreas Proteus 2010-05-15 17:45:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)

> > podbrowser
> > Can't call method "get_filename" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/podbrowser
> > line 205.
> > It still seems to work fine.

Thanks for the ebuild.

May be the error you get is caused by something else, because here after I applied the patch I get no such error.  

[Comment 9 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-05-28 08:32:42 UTC]

I tried the patch but still get icons with red X symbols.

[Comment 10 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-07-01 14:40:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I tried the patch but still get icons with red X symbols.
> 
strange, seems to work ok here;
http://nooone.info/downloads/podbrowser.png

Still looks like it has not been updated since 2008.

[Comment 11 Andreas Proteus 2010-09-22 00:10:32 UTC]

Created attachment 248307 [details]
updated ICON patch

After updating several gnome packages I found podbrowser not working again.
Fortunately with this  minor change  works again.

[Comment 12 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2011-03-23 08:55:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #11)
> After updating several gnome packages I found podbrowser not working again.
> Fortunately with this  minor change  works again.

A fix was never committed ;)
Now 0.12-r1 is patched. Thanks

(In reply to comment #9)
> I tried the patch but still get icons with red X symbols.

Still missing symbols (document with a red cross) and
a missing podbrowser.svg(?) warning on startup ("Can't call method "get_filename" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/podbrowser line 205.")