148545 – gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.16.0 crashes using dev-lang/python-2.5-r1

Bug 148545 - gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.16.0 crashes using dev-lang/python-2.5-r1

Summary: gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.16.0 crashes using dev-lang/python-2.5-r1

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

URL:	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/368576
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Blocks:	python-2.5
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Reported:	2006-09-21 10:10 UTC by Mike Auty (RETIRED)
Modified:	2006-11-06 02:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Mike Auty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-21 10:10:47 UTC

Deskbar-applet won't load correctly.  On running it from the console it shows that the error is in:

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deskbar/ui/About.py

It turns out it's because the copyright symbol isn't in the standard encoding, and the string has no encoding hints (that now seem to be mandatory) to tell it otherwise.  Change the symbol to "(C)", causes it all to work fine.

I haven't looked at or told upstream yet...

Comment 1 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-31 14:06:57 UTC

thanks, i made a patch and sent it upstream.

Comment 2 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-11-06 02:33:09 UTC

deskbar-applet bumped to 2.16.1 in cvs. I Added John patch to fix the bug. The bug reported to upstream is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368576 so i hope they add the patch soon.

Thanks