[Straw-devel] [Fwd: Bug#254466: straw: 0.23 fails to show article's content!]

[Ross Burton]

Hi all,

I'm getting various bugs relating to unknown encodings (attached),
specifically

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 336, in item_selection_changed
    self.display_item(item)
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 363, in display_item
    straw.main.display_item(item)
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/Main.py", line 188, in display_item
    straw.main_window.display_item(item)
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 1416, in display_item
    self._item_view.display_item(item)
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 101, in display_item
    html = (
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 145, in htmlify_item
    self._date_format, self._encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/utils.py", line 144, in format_date
    return unicode(timestr, encoding)
LookupError: unknown encoding: en_US.ISO8859-15

Johan saw this too when he tried it and mentioned that unicode() behaves
differently on different versions of Python, throwing different
exceptions.  Hopefully this is the case and this is a simple fix.

Also see the second report in the mail, DB corruption when running Straw
over remote X on a 386 host.  Are the bsddb files host-endian based on
the machine which created them, so (say for example) a Straw database
created on PPC won't then be read on a x86?

Thanks,
Ross
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> Bug#254466: straw: 0.23 fails to show article's content!
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:36:15 +0300
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> Package: straw
> Version: 0.23-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
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> The 0.23-1 that entered unstable today completely fails to show the article's 
> content! This is reproducible on 
> articles from any source, including old articles that previously displayed fine 
> using 0.22.1 this morning.
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> Running from commandline gives me this:
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> X8------
> <address@hidden:/home/q-funk>$ straw
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 336, in item_selection_changed
>     self.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 363, in display_item
>     straw.main.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/Main.py", line 188, in display_item
>     straw.main_window.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 1416, in display_item
>     self._item_view.display_item(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 101, in display_item
>     html = (
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/MainWindow.py", line 145, in htmlify_item
>     self._date_format, self._encoding)
>   File "/usr/lib/straw/straw/utils.py", line 144, in format_date
>     return unicode(timestr, encoding)
> LookupError: unknown encoding: en_US.ISO8859-15
>
> (straw:5282): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set label from markup due to error 
> parsing markup: Virhe rivillä 1, kohdassa 
> 9: Virheellinen UTF-8-merkistöinen teksti
> <address@hidden:/home/q-funk>$
> X8------
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> Attempting to run Straw from an i386 host via X session forwarding gives me 
> this instead:
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> X8------
> <address@hidden:/home/q-funk>$ straw
> ItemStore.py:47:__init__: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- 
> PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, 
> run database recovery
> Recovery Error: See README for details on how to recover data.
> <address@hidden:/home/q-funk>$
> X8------
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> Nice, except which package's README has the answer?  *argh*
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> In other words, 0.23-1 is seriously broken!  Any chances this might be due to 
> non-updated dependencies?  If not, any 
> test I could do?
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>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-imac
> Locale: address@hidden, address@hidden
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> Versions of packages straw depends on:
> ii  gconf2                        2.6.1-2    GNOME configuration database syste
> ii  python                        2.3.4-1    An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python2.3                     2.3.4-1    An interactive high-level object-o
> ii  python2.3-egenix-mxdatetime   2.0.5-1    Date and time handling routines fo
> ii  python2.3-glade2              2.2.0-1    GTK+ bindings: Glade support
> ii  python2.3-gnome2              2.0.2-1    Python bindings for GNOME 2
> ii  python2.3-gtk2                2.2.0-1    Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
>
> -- no debconf information
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