[Reportbug-maint] Fwd: Reportbug unusable

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello Grzegorz,
please try to report a but next time (you can do that by hand as per
[1]), or at least to write to the ml - it would easy

[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

> From: "Grzegorz Andruszkiewicz" <gandrusz at gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 4, 2011 11:14 AM
> Subject: Reportbug unusable
> To: <lawrencc at debian.org>
>
> Hi, I am using Debian Testing and I tried to raise a new bug using
> reportbug, but I am not able to (because of crash). When I tried to report a
> bug against reportbug it crashed again (with a different error message):
>
> ga at grzes:~$ reportbug
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 2186, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1073, in main
>    return iface.user_interface()
>  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1688, in user_interface
>    latest_first=self.options.latest_first)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py", line 1489, in
> func
>    args, kwargs = op.sync_pre_operation (*args, **kwargs)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py", line 882, in
> sync_pre_operation
>    http_proxy=http_proxy, archived=archived, source=source)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/reportbug/debbugs.py", line 1204, in
> get_reports
>    stats = debianbts.get_status(bugs)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/debianbts.py", line 161, in get_status
>    reply = server.get_status(*nr)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 470, in __call__
>    return self.__r_call(*args, **kw)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 492, in __r_call
>    self.__hd, self.__ma)
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/SOAPpy/Client.py", line 406, in __call
>    raise p
> SOAPpy.Types.faultType: <Fault soap:Server: Corrupted storable string
> (binary v2.7) at ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into
> ../../lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 415, at
> /usr/share/perl5/MLDBM/Serializer/Storable.pm line 27

I suspect a timeout/network issue.

> ga at grzes:~$ reportbug
> *** glibc detected *** **
> Gdk:ERROR:/build/buildd-gtk+2.0_2.24.4-3-i386-ouUeDk/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gdk/gdkregion-generic.c:1110:miUnionNonO:
> assertion failed: (y1 < y2)
> Aborted

This has been reported tons of time - python-gtk2/libgtk2 maint
doesn't want to investigate on this, and we can't given it's not a
crash in reportbug. My suggestion is to use the text interface (from
the commandline: reportbug --ui=text)

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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