Bug#492212: Does not start anymore (futex syscall)

2008-10-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:42:40PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Package: gramps
> Version: 3.0.1-1

The culprit for this bug has finally been nailed down. Enchant crashes
(bringing gramps down with it) under certain situations.

This bug will be reassigned and merged with that one.

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Bug#501519: enchant crashes when closing a directory before returning a dictionary

2008-10-07 Thread James A. Treacy
Package: enchant
Version: 1.4.2-3.1
Severity: critical

There have been ongoing problems with gramps crashing (other packages are almost
certainly affected) when spell checking is enabled. The problem was finally
traced to enchant. It appears that enchant can crash if a directory is closed
before a dictionary is returned.

For details and patch please see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/enchant/+bug/261596

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Bug#474056: gramps: needs python2.5 but does not depend on it, and fails to install in minimal environment

2008-04-03 Thread James A. Treacy
Simon,
Thank you for the additional information and the patch.

As you seem quite familiar with the python infrastructure I thought
I'd mention one thing. You removed the python-minimal dependency,
which I know is not recommended. The reason I added that is to
ensure that a recent enough version is installed.

After initially building the new version of gramps, it wouldn't
install. I tracked it down to having an old version of python-minimal;
/usr/share/python/debian_defaults was not up to date. This made it
impossible to install gramps as python 2.5 wasn't in the list of
supported versions.

As python has a strict version dependency on python-minimal I have
changed the python-minimal dependency to python (>= 2.4.4-6). Does
that seem reasonable to you?

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Bug#474056: gramps: needs python2.5 but does not depend on it, and fails to install in minimal environment

2008-04-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:23:06AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Package: gramps
> Version: 3.0.0-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 3.5

Please check the bugs for a package before filing new ones as this
was already reported. The fixed package will be uploaded as soon as
I rebuild it to also close this report.

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Bug#459204: gramps: Upon safeing destroys database

2008-01-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:43:07PM +0100, Roman Bertle wrote:
> Package: gramps
> Version: 2.2.9-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss

Version 2.2.10 which was just released should fix this problem (closing the
bug).

Of course you'd like to fix the existing database, if possible. Take a look
at http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_grdb

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Bug#445864: gramps: crashes on start

2007-10-09 Thread James A. Treacy
> Package: gramps
> Version: 2.2.8-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> When starting gramps, whether from the Applications menu or from the
> command line, it crashes immediately.  The only window I see is the
> bug-buddy window.  The log that bug-buddy produces is attached; I
> installed several debug packages to get a better backtrace.

I am unable to reproduce the problem here. I suspect that this is due
to the recent upgrade to the gnome packages. Can you do a full upgrade
to your system to see if this clears up the problem?

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Bug#339837: Apparent author looks MIA

2006-04-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:10:12PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> After seeing this bug stalling for monthes, I have looked at www.d.o's 
> CVS and tracked these statements back to the initial revision of 
> webwml/english/security/index.wml, committed in 1998 by James A. Treacy, 
> who looks MIA since August 2004. I am CC:ing him, but my guess is that 
> if we're lucky enough to get a reply, it will be along the lines of 
> "This statement was accurate in a previous era, but needs new 
> statistical grounding if the current maintainers still believe it is 
> valid.".

I do not see that my opinion on the future of a file I committed 8
years ago should carry much weight when I have not been involved with
the web site for over 3 years. Additionally, this request comes in
the middle of a long bug that I do not have the time to read now.
As a general statement, though, I would agree that the contents of
the Debian web site should not contain information that is wrong or
intentionally misleading.

As an aside, I most certainly have not been MIA since 2004. It is true
that I have not been involved with the Debian web site much since
2002 and do not read the debian web related mailing lists, but my
involvement with Debian continues.

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Bug#335968: gramps: Segmentation fault

2005-10-27 Thread James A. Treacy
severity 335968 important
stop

This bug has been downgraded to important as it only seems to affect
some machines. It doesn't crash on my workstation (athlon; linux
2.6.11.7) but does crash on my laptop (pentium M; crashes under linux
2.6.14-rc5 and 2.6.9). Both machines are running the latest version of
sid.

(gdb) run /usr/share/gramps/gramps.py
[snip]
Running gramps under gdb results in the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gramps/gramps.py", line 81, in ?
import gramps_main
  File "/usr/share/gramps/gramps_main.py", line 58, in ?
import MediaView
  File "/usr/share/gramps/MediaView.py", line 49, in ?
import ImageSelect
  File "/usr/share/gramps/ImageSelect.py", line 59, in ?
import RelImage
  File "/usr/share/gramps/RelImage.py", line 34, in ?
from QuestionDialog import ErrorDialog, WarningDialog
  File "/usr/share/gramps/QuestionDialog.py", line 47, in ?
ICON = pixbuf_new_from_file(const.icon)
gobject.GError: Failed to open file './gramps.png': No such file or directory

What is odd here is that the failure seems to be different from what
Jeffrey reported. As Alex has already stated, this bug is not due to
gramps. At a minimum, what we need to do is narrow down the problem so
the bug can be reassigned to the proper place.

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Bug#334122: Receive an "Segmentation fault" when launching gramps

2005-10-16 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:09:25AM -0700, Jim Woodruff wrote:
> Cannot launch gramps as it exits with an "Segmentation fault" error.

This is almost certainly a problem with python or the gtk/gnome bindings.
Try starting python and importing modules:
$ python
>>> import gtk
>>> import gnome
>>> import gconf
>>> import gtkspell

If the modules all imported without problems, run gdb on python and
then run gramps:
$ gdb /usr/bin/python
(gdb) run /usr/share/gramps/gramps.py

If, as I suspect, this is a problem with gtkspell, you can still use
gramps by uninstalling gtkspell.

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Bug#327297: gramps 2.0.8-1 segfaults on startup on AMD64

2005-09-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:34:36PM -0700, Alex Roitman wrote:
> James, should we close this one since it's not gramps' problem?

Since part of gramps will be broken until this is fixed, it is usual
to keep the bug open until the problem is fixed.

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Bug#327297: gramps 2.0.8-1 segfaults on startup on AMD64

2005-09-09 Thread James A. Treacy
It would be useful if you could run gramps under gdb:
 $ cd /usr/share/gramps
 $ gdb /usr/bin/python
 (gdb) run gramps.py
after it segfaults then type
 (gdb) backtrace

Please send the results of the backtrace as a reply. This should help
us identify which library has the bug and refile the bug against that
package.

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