Comment 27 for bug 359440

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Hassan El Jacifi (waver) wrote :

Sorry but I still can't run checkbox from a fresh install.

18:12 waver@Terra ~% checkbox-gtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/run", line 40, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/checkbox/run", line 35, in main
    application = manager.create_application(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/checkbox/application.py", line 143, in create_application
    section = config.add_section(section_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/checkbox/lib/config.py", line 144, in add_section
    return self.get_section(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/checkbox/lib/config.py", line 134, in get_section
    attributes = dict(self._parser.items(name))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 577, in items
    for option in options]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 588, in _interpolate
    value = value % vars
ValueError: unsupported format character 'B' (0x42) at index 1

The config:

* checkbox-backend.ini

[DEFAULT]

# Space separated list of files to include as a dependency for the
# backend interface.
includes = %(checkbox_share)s/configs/checkbox.ini

[checkbox/plugins]

whitelist = backend_manager suites_info

[checkbox/plugins/user_interface]

# Module where the user interface implementation is defined.
interface_module = checkbox.user_interface

# Class implementing the UserInterface interface.
interface_class = UserInterface

* checkbox-gtk.ini
[DEFAULT]
includes = %(checkbox_share)s/configs/checkbox.ini

[checkbox/plugins/user_interface]
data_path = %(checkbox_share)s/gtk
interface_class = GTKInterface
interface_module = checkbox_gtk.gtk_interface

* checkbox.ini
[DEFAULT]
version = 0.7.1
plugins = checkbox/plugins
registries = checkbox/registries

[checkbox/plugins]
blacklist = backend_manager
modules = %(checkbox_share)s/plugins/*.py

[checkbox/registries]
modules = %(checkbox_share)s/registries/*.py

Packages:
ii checkbox 0.7.2
ii checkbox-gtk 0.7.2
ii debconf 1.5.26ubuntu3
un debconf-2.0
ii hal 0.5.12~rc1+git20090403-0ubuntu4
ii python 2.6.2-0ubuntu1
ii python-central 0.6.11ubuntu7
ii python-glade2 2.14.1-1ubuntu1
ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-1ubuntu1
ii lsb-release 4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ii lshw 02.13-2ubuntu2
ii policykit 0.9-2ubuntu1
ii python-dbus 0.83.0-1ubuntu1
ii python-gst0.10 0.10.14-1ubuntu1

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty