Baltix

alacarte does not start

Bug #46027 reported by eTM
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Baltix
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
pyxdg (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

alacarte does not start because of menu entries that contain non-utf-8 characters

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 26, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 23, in main
    GnomeFront()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 72, in __init__
    self.loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 205, in loadMenus
    self.sys_handler = MenuHandler('settings.menu', self.options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Alacarte/PyXDGMenuHandler.py", line 27, in __init__
    xdg.MenuEditor.MenuEditor.__init__(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 28, in __init__
    self.parse(menu, filename, root)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 40, in parse
    self.menu = parse(menu)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 524, in parse
    __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(tmp["Root"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
    __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 856, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
    __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated(submenu)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 859, in __genmenuNotOnlyAllocated
    tmp["cache"].addMenuEntries(menu.AppDirs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1022, in addMenuEntries
    self.__addFiles(dir, "", prefix, legacy)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1036, in __addFiles
    self.__addFiles(dir, os.path.join(subdir,item), prefix, legacy)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xdg/Menu.py", line 1028, in __addFiles
    menuentry = MenuEntry(os.path.join(subdir,item), dir, prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py", line 65, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 47-50: invalid data

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'alacarte'; however, that package was not published in Baltix.

Revision history for this message
eTM (juergen-mangler) wrote : Dapper, 0.8-0ubuntu12

affects Dapper, 0.8-0ubuntu12

Revision history for this message
Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Hi eTM,

Do you still have the same issue with the latest version (0.8-0ubuntu12) of Alacarte on Dapper?
Please let us know. Thanks.

Changed in alacarte:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
eTM (juergen-mangler) wrote :

I'm currently on 0.9.90 (0ubuntu1). The error went away with edgy. with 0.8-0ubuntu12 (as written above) the error was still there.

It was produced by crossoveroffice, when I installed a german ms-office. This created "Umlauts" in the menu entries.

Jürgen

Revision history for this message
Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Closing this bug as the reporter says it is not a bug on Edgy anymore. Thank you for the feedback.

Changed in pyxdg:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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