Gwibber

gwibber fails if there isn't a genchant spell dict for the locale

Bug #439146 reported by Robert Collins on 2009-09-30

This bug affects 10 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gwibber	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	gwibber (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ken VanDine

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gwibber

gwibber fails if there isn't a genchant spell dict for the locale

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 30 14:48:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gwibber
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: gwibber 2.0.0~bzr449-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=la.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gwibber']
SourcePackage: gwibber
Title: gwibber crashed with GError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

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lp://staging/~gwibber-team/gwibber/packaging.trunk

lp://staging/~webapps/+junk/gwibber-opensesame-packaging

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote on 2009-09-30:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (70.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (788 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Traceback.txt Edit (727 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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private → public

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2009-09-30

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Foppe Hemminga (foppe) wrote on 2009-11-06:

Duplicates Bug #472236 and Bug #475032 confirm this bug for gwibber version 2.0.0~bzr476-0ubuntu3.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Robert Collins (lifeless) on 2010-02-01

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)

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Ricardo Fernández (koshrf) wrote on 2010-02-07:

Is there any workaround for this bug? like how do I install a "genchant spell dict" for my locale?

This is the error I've been getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 57, in <module>
    client.Client()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 107, in __init__
    self.w = GwibberClient()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 190, in __init__
    self.setup_ui()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 262, in setup_ui
    self.input = gwui.Input(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 395, in __init__
    self.textview = InputTextView(client)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 455, in __init__
    self.spell = gtkspell.Spell(self, None)
glib.GError: enchant error for language: es_VE.UTF-8

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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) wrote on 2010-02-08:

This is fixed in r516 of trunk, which should make it into lucid this week.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2010-03-03:

Fixed as per last comment. If you still face this in the development release please open it again. Thanks for your bug report.

Changed in gwibber (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
importance:	Undecided → Low

Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) on 2011-02-14

affects:	ubuntu-dev-tools → gwibber
Changed in gwibber:
status:	New → Fix Released

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