Bug 97764 – straw-0.25.1 started crashing recently

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Robert T Childers 2005-07-02 13:50:49 UTC]

I have been hunting for the update that is responsible for the recent crashing
of straw. Sometime in the last week an update of my system has caused straw to
crash as soon as you click on a feed to display its current articles. Running
straw in console gives the following results. Note these error messages occur
before i click on anything on the reader.
trent@insanity ~ $ straw
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/straw/MainWindow.py:836: DeprecationWarning:
use gtk.UIManager
  self._item_factory = gtk.ItemFactory(gtk.Menu, '<feed_list_popup>')
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/straw/MainWindow.py:640: DeprecationWarning:
use gtk.UIManager
  self.item_factory = gtk.ItemFactory(gtk.Menu, "<category_menu>")
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/straw/MainWindow.py:324: DeprecationWarning:
use gtk.UIManager
  self._item_factory = gtk.ItemFactory(gtk.Menu, '<item_list_popup>')
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:90:
GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainiteration is deprecated, use gtk.main_iteration
instead
  self.warn(message, DeprecationWarning)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.execute straw
2.click on any feed in the left vertical pane of rss feeds.
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the error dialog box that the program has crashed.

Expected Results:  
It should have listed the articles retrieved for that feed. Note I have been
using version 0.25.1 for some time now so the problem lies with something that
has been updated lately. I will continue to search for the underlying cause.
Sorry that I don't have anymore info than this. Oh I have already tried rolling
back libxml2 from 2.6.19 to 2.6.17. This had no effect. I doubt that it is the
problem but could com_err or ss have any effect on straw. com_err was added in
the last update and it caused a major revdep-rebuild of my system. And yes i
have already completed the revdep-rebuild.

insanity log # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1,
2.6.11-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 30 2005, 13:45:29)]
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox
sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3d aalib acpi adns alsa amd apache2 apm arts
artswrappersuid authdaemond avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game bonobo bootspla
c cdparanoia cdr cdrom cjk clamav codecs crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux
dmx dnd doc dv dvd dvdread eds emboss emoticon encode erandom esd fam fbcon
ffmpeg fftw flac fmod foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit fortran
freetds freetype fs gb gd gdbm gif gimpprint glade glut gnome gnomedb gpm
graphviz gsl gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib imlib2
innodb ipv6 ithreads jabber java javascript jikes joystick jpeg junit jython kde
kerberos lcms ldap libclamav libg++ libgda libwww lzo mad maildir mailwrapper
mbox mcal md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozcalendar mozdomi mozilla
mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn music mysql mysqli native ncurses
net nls nntp nptl nvidia oav offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl opens oscar
oss pam pdf pdflib pear-db perl php png ppds prelude pthreads python qt
quicktime readline regexp ruby samba sasl scanner sdl slang slp snmp soap
sockets socks5 softmmu speedo speex spell spl sqlite ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd
tetex threads tiff tools transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts
unicode unsafe usb vhosts videos virus-scan vorbis wifi wmf wxwin wxwindows xine
xinetd xml xml2 xmms xpm xscreensaver xsl xv xvid yahoo zeo zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-07-02 17:45:25 UTC]

i can reproduce this problem, i'm looking at the code right now.

[Comment 2 Robert T Childers 2005-07-02 20:14:06 UTC]

If there is anything you want me to try just let me know. I am looking at the
straw ebuild and going through my emerge logs. So far nothing is really jumping
out at me.

[Comment 3 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-07-03 06:18:05 UTC]

okay, after debugging, i think i know how to fix the problem.

Basically the program would crash on line 159 in MainWindow.py when it was
trying to close the stream to the gtkhtml2 document.

Heres the steps to fix it:
1. emerge gnome-python-extras ( need to unmask this, as well as
gnome-python-2.10.0 and pyorbit-2.0.1 since they are ~ dependencies )

Make sure you are emerging both with gtkhtml use flag set.

This has to do with the gtkhtml2 module, which is now located in
gnome-python-extras.

Please let me know if this works for you, because some packs will have to have
their deps adjusted.

Thanks!

[Comment 4 Robert T Childers 2005-07-03 12:14:43 UTC]

John, thanks for the info. The program is working now. There are some items in
the output in the console window that the writers of straw will probably have to
look into with regards to deprecated python objects. I wonder though how much of
that is due to them keeping this program runnable on older versions of python.

To recap, I umasked gnome-python-extras and its dependencies as required to
install as you suggested and the program is running now.

[Comment 5 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-07-03 12:20:08 UTC]

all the deprecated messages are quite easy to fix, I actually fixed them as I
was going along.  it should be even faster for the maintainers since they
already know the code.

I'll close this bug when the dependencies are changed, thanks for the quick replies.

[Comment 6 Chris Rebert 2005-07-13 23:21:44 UTC]

shouldn't straw be downgraded or something until this is sorted out?

[Comment 7 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-07-16 07:36:21 UTC]

all the deps have been sorted out, in CVS.