Ubuntu
singularity package

Menu pops up repeatedly during game (w/savegame)

Bug #576504 reported by Hans Joachim Desserud on 2010-05-06

This bug affects 6 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
singularity (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #642597
singularity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Natty	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Oneiric	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: singularity

the packaged singularity is not compatible with python 2.7, it ises locale.format in a wrong way.
This issue was fixed in 0.30c, that version only fixes this issue and commends some unused translations, so one can use that complete new release for an SRU instead of backporting the fix.

TESTCASE:
start game from the console, start new game in any difficulty.
click on finance in the lower left

one gets this traceback on the console:
  File "/usr/share/games/singularity/code/g.py", line 268, in to_percent
    return locale.format("%.2f%%", raw_percent / 100.).decode(encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line 189, in format
    "format specifier, %s not valid") % repr(percent))
ValueError: format() must be given exactly one %char format specifier, '%.2f%%' not valid

the fix is extremely simple, so regressions should be impossible.

original report:
In one game I played, the menu suddenly popped up all by itself. I selected back to continue the game, but the menu popped up again. And it continued to pop up each time I pressed back, making the game unplayable.

This is the only game where I have experienced this bug, so I do not know how rare this bug is.
Other games I have played have worked normally.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the attached savegame and store it in ~/.endgame/saves/
2. Start singularity.
3. Choose "Load game" and select the savegame named "Bug: menu pops up".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 3d4e70beb3eff6f543ce51ffa626d20a
CheckboxSystem: e704f33cc0866ff0f0256a33de39ea1c
Date: Thu May 6 18:39:38 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: singularity 0.30-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=nb_NO.UTF-8
LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
SourcePackage: singularity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686

See original description

Tags:

Related branches

lp:~jtaylor/ubuntu/oneiric/singularity/fix-576504

Merged into lp:ubuntu/oneiric/singularity at revision 11

Ubuntu branches: Pending requested 2011-09-27

lp:ubuntu/oneiric/singularity

lp:~jtaylor/ubuntu/natty/singularity/fix-576504

Merged into lp:ubuntu/natty/singularity

Daniel Holbach (community): Approve on 2011-10-06

Ubuntu branches: Pending requested 2011-10-05

lp:ubuntu/natty-proposed/singularity

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2010-05-06:

Savegame demonstrating the bug Edit (61.4 KiB, text/plain)
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (797 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Francesco Muriana (f-muriana) wrote on 2011-06-17:

dependencies Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain)

This bug also affects me on Natty.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 18 00:47:56 2011
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
InstallationMedia: Natty (i386)
Package: singularity 0.30b-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: singularity
Tags: natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Tuomas Heino (iheino+ub) wrote on 2011-09-24:

sing_p_not_vs_src.patch Edit (792 bytes, text/plain)

This seems to be a regression from python 2.7 update.
http://bugs.python.org/issue10379 implies that correct fix for this is changing locale.format to locale.format_string.

Easier test case for this is starting game and clicking on the "Finance" button, which always shows percents.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-09-24:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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

Tuomas Heino (iheino+ub) on 2011-09-24

tags:

added: amd64 natty regression-update

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2011-09-24:

The attachment "sing_p_not_vs_src.patch" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-sponsors please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags:

added: patch

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-09-25

Changed in singularity (Debian):
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Julian Taylor (jtaylor) wrote on 2011-09-27:

the latest upstream version fixes this issue:
Version 0.30c (2 mb) 06-11-2011. Linux only, as this fixes a Linux-only bug.
Changes:
- Fixed crash in Python 2.7 due to different handling of locale strings. (Phil Bordelon, Roger Pixley/Daskreech for bug report)

Changed in singularity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Julian Taylor (jtaylor) on 2011-09-27

description:

updated

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-10-04:

This bug was fixed in the package singularity - 0.30c-0ubuntu1

---------------
singularity (0.30c-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

* New upstream release.
- fixes python 2.7 incompatibility (LP: #576504)
-- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:24:44 +0200

Changed in singularity (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2011-10-06:

Uploaded. Sitting in the queue now.

Changed in singularity (Ubuntu Natty):
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-10-11: Please test proposed package

Hello Hans, or anyone else affected,

Accepted singularity into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags:

added: verification-needed

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Sebastian Bator (eremit7) wrote on 2011-10-15:

#10

I will test it within the next two weeks.

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Sebastian Bator (eremit7) wrote on 2011-11-03:

#11

According to a short test the bug is fixed in the proposed package: The game displays the menus like it should and there are no errors in the terminal.

Thanks to everyone involved in the fix.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2011-11-03

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-11-07:

#12

This bug was fixed in the package singularity - 0.30c-0ubuntu0.1

---------------
singularity (0.30c-0ubuntu0.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

* New upstream bugfix release.
- fixes incompatibility with python 2.7 (LP: #576504)
-- Julian Taylor <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:50:48 +0200