Pychess crash directly after starting

I confirm the bug.

Reported upstream by Wouter Stomp.
http://groups.google.com/group/pychess-people/browse_thread/thread/6f67911f83ed3ecd

It happens because: "in gladelib for gnome 2.20 the widget disappars from 'widgets' when you unparrent it." (upstream developer) It is fixed in the latest svn version, revision 564. Could the ubuntu package be updated to this version??

motu-uvf does not package stuff. It decides if it will get in after someone else has packaged it, so I've unsubscribed them from the bug.

Rather than jump to an svn snapshot late in the release cycle, it may be better to try and apply the patch to the current version in Gutsy. If someone will point me at the location for their SVN and the patch in question, I'll look at seeing if it solves the problem in the current version.

I got this response (meant to be posted here?) from Thomas Dybdahl Ahle, the main pychess developer:

He's probably right. We are close to 0.8 Philidor beta, but until then, I've backported the fix to the 0.6 branch, which you can check out by "svn checkout http://pychess.googlecode.com/svn/branches/0.6 pychess" I haven't tested it though, but it is the same fix as in Philidor, which is tested with a Gutsy tribe 5 livecd.

I can test it tomorrow on gutsy if needed.

And here is a link to the patch:

http://groups.google.com/group/pychess-commits/browse_thread/thread/3b350ff4672940a9/48f4558aa50cb383#48f4558aa50cb383

pychess (0.6.1-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Apply Glade widget patch provided by upstream (LP: #128300)
  * Change maintainter to MOTU

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:06:54 -0400

Thanks!

No problem. Thanks for pointing out the patch. If you find patches for the
other pychess bugs, feel free to subscribe me to the bugs.

I would like to reopen the bug for pychess 0.8 beta 4.1 on AMD64 Hardy latest Alpha with latest updates.
Terminal output:
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:~$ pychess
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/pychess", line 41, in <module>
    pychess.Main.run(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 468, in run
    PyChess(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 400, in __init__
    self.initGlade()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 433, in initGlade
    window["menubar1"].drag_dest_set(flags, dnd_list, gtk.gdk.ACTION_COPY)
TypeError: list items should be of form (string,int,int)

Please file a new bug for this.