From afb at paradise.net.nz  Wed May  3 05:50:22 2006
From: afb at paradise.net.nz (Adam Bogacki)
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 21:50:22 +1200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alex* crashes: won't open ..
Message-ID: <20060503095021.GD3878@paradise.net.nz>

Alexandria consistently crashes on opening whether from menu or
gnome-terminal with the following output.

Adam Bogacki,
afb at paradise.net.nz

adam at Tux:~09:46:36$ alexandria
-----------------------
Alexandria just crashed
-----------------------
Timestamp: Wed May 03 21:46:41 NZST 2006
Message: bad URI(is not URI?): http://localhost:4001
Backtrace:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:432:in `split'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:481:in `parse'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:65:in `main'
/usr/bin/alexandria:10
Release: 0.6.1

Uname -a: Linux Tux 2.6.14 #8 Tue Mar 28 04:18:02 NZST 2006 i686
GNU/Linux
--
Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list at rubyforge.org' with some
additional
information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to
reproduce it
(if it's possible).
adam at Tux:~09:46:41$





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From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com  Mon May  8 12:00:23 2006
From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:00:23 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alex* crashes: won't open ..
In-Reply-To: <20060503095021.GD3878@paradise.net.nz>
References: <20060503095021.GD3878@paradise.net.nz>
Message-ID: <1be7247c0605080900u37ca10dn4b3938028ad3ff8@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Adam,

(Sorry for the late response...).

On 5/3/06, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Alexandria consistently crashes on opening whether from menu or
> gnome-terminal with the following output.
>
> Adam Bogacki,
> afb at paradise.net.nz
>
> adam at Tux:~09:46:36$ alexandria
> -----------------------
> Alexandria just crashed
> -----------------------
> Timestamp: Wed May 03 21:46:41 NZST 2006
> Message: bad URI(is not URI?): http://localhost:4001
> Backtrace:
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:432:in `split'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:481:in `parse'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:65:in `main'
> /usr/bin/alexandria:10
> Release: 0.6.1
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list
>

Apparently Alexandria is trying to parse your "http_proxy" environment
variable using Ruby's URI library but an error happened during the
parse.

What is strange is that http://localhost:4001 is a valid URI, and that:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'uri'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> URI.parse('http://localhost:1004')
=> #<URI::HTTP:0x1ada46 URL:http://localhost:1004>

So I would suggest to investigate a bit further, try checkout out the
contents of the "http_proxy" environment variable, maybe it contains
some invalid stuff.

And anyway removing this environment variable should make Alexandria
working as before.

Laurent


From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com  Mon May  8 12:02:19 2006
From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:02:19 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alexandria just crashed Permission denied
In-Reply-To: <200604291142.15109.bob.paddock@gmail.com>
References: <200604291142.15109.bob.paddock@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1be7247c0605080902m2664355cqba5d00fd6e89a0d2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bob,

Very sorry for the late response...

On 4/29/06, Bob Paddock <bob.paddock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to add the book '0-9641153-4-4' to which I get
> a Permission Denied.  Don't know why?  Everything looks
> correct as far as owner/group, trying to add it to my own account.
>
>
> After that didn't work I hit 'New' and that resulted in
> this crash.
>

Another user (using Fedora) reported me that problem, but I could not
reproduce on my machine.  I guess the problem is not Alexandria based,
something in the Ruby stdlib probably changed recently.

I will try to investigate as soon as I have some time.

Laurent


From waldner at waldner.priv.at  Mon May  8 13:14:39 2006
From: waldner at waldner.priv.at (Robert Waldner)
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 19:14:39 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Crashes when trying to add book manually
Message-ID: <20060508171445.DC57D1BDA3@fsck.waldner.priv.at>


Hi!

Every time I try to manually add a book, Alexandria crashes when I 
 leave the "Title:" field.

$ DEBUG=1 alexandria
Exception `NameError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/glade_base.rb:26 - `@dialog-vbox1' is not allowed as an instance variable name
Exception `Errno::ENOENT' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1279 - No such file or directory - /tmp/tmp_cover
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb: line 1279
   GLib-CRITICAL **:g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed

Any idea where "dialog-vbox1" comes from? I don't even have the 
 slightest idea what the code in glade_base.rb's supposed to do.

(This is Alexandria 0.6.1-1, on Debian, with the following dependencies:
ii  gconf2         2.14.0-1       GNOME configuration database system (support
ii  libamazon-ruby 0.9.0-2        a Ruby library for programmatic access to th
ii  libgconf2-4    2.14.0-1       GNOME configuration database system (shared 
ii  libgconf2-ruby 0.14.1-1.1     GConf 2 bindings for the Ruby language
ii  libgettext-rub 0.8.0-1        Gettext for ruby1.8
ii  libglade2-ruby 0.14.1-1.1     Libglade 2 bindings for the Ruby language
ii  libgnome2-ruby 0.14.1-1.1     GNOME 2 bindings for the Ruby language
ii  libruby1.8     1.8.4-2        Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.8
ii  libzlib-ruby   0.6.0+ruby1.8. Extension library to use zlib from Ruby
ii  ruby1.8        1.8.4-2        Interpreter of object-oriented scripting lan
)

cheers+tia,
&rw
-- 
-- "An editor is a tool for saving programmer-bukkake to disk."
--                                          - Anthony de Boer


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From smyjak at verizon.net  Sat May 20 18:03:23 2006
From: smyjak at verizon.net (Leeksoup)
Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 22:03:23 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Alexandria-list] built rpms and installed successfully on fc5
Message-ID: <loom.20060520T235448-344@post.gmane.org>

Using the instructions on the "Road to Alexandria" page you link to, I have
managed to successfully build the rpms and install and run Alexandria on Fedora
Core 5. I have already sent my fixes / updated spec files to Gnot at the Road to
Alexandria site. I would be happy to give the rpms to someone who could host it
but I have no site myself. (I see Alexandria has an out of date project at
sourceforge but no files in it.) Any ideas?

Also I am unable to load the home page at http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ .. I
have been looking at the page in Google's cache instead (!) Is it the right URL?

Thanks for making this available. It looks great! I can't believe how quick it
is to add books. Only thing I would add is some way to categorize books, though
I suppose I could do that by using multiple libraries.


From afb at paradise.net.nz  Thu May 25 06:57:07 2006
From: afb at paradise.net.nz (Adam Bogacki)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 22:57:07 +1200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alex* crashes: won't open ..
In-Reply-To: <1be7247c0605080900u37ca10dn4b3938028ad3ff8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20060503095021.GD3878@paradise.net.nz>
	<1be7247c0605080900u37ca10dn4b3938028ad3ff8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20060525105707.GC2925@paradise.net.nz>

Hmm .. it looks normal to my limited experience in hacking .gconf. 

I thought I'd run it past you before deleting anything.

I'd be grateful for any comments - I'd like to get Alex up again.

Adam.

Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# ls
%gconf.xml  gstreamer  http_proxy  proxy
Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# cd http_proxy
Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system/http_proxy# ls
%gconf.xml
Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system/http_proxy#

---------------------------


On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:00:23PM +0200 or thereabouts, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> (Sorry for the late response...).
> 
> On 5/3/06, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >Alexandria consistently crashes on opening whether from menu or
> >gnome-terminal with the following output.
> >
> >Adam Bogacki,
> >afb at paradise.net.nz
> >
> >adam at Tux:~09:46:36$ alexandria
> >-----------------------
> >Alexandria just crashed
> >-----------------------
> >Timestamp: Wed May 03 21:46:41 NZST 2006
> >Message: bad URI(is not URI?): http://localhost:4001
> >Backtrace:
> >/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:432:in `split'
> >/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:481:in `parse'
> >/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:65:in `main'
> >/usr/bin/alexandria:10
> >Release: 0.6.1
> >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list
> >
> 
> Apparently Alexandria is trying to parse your "http_proxy" environment
> variable using Ruby's URI library but an error happened during the
> parse.
> 
> What is strange is that http://localhost:4001 is a valid URI, and that:
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'uri'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> URI.parse('http://localhost:1004')
> => #<URI::HTTP:0x1ada46 URL:http://localhost:1004>
> 
> So I would suggest to investigate a bit further, try checkout out the
> contents of the "http_proxy" environment variable, maybe it contains
> some invalid stuff.
> 
> And anyway removing this environment variable should make Alexandria
> working as before.
> 
> Laurent
> 
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From laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com  Wed May 31 07:19:35 2006
From: laurent.sansonetti at gmail.com (Laurent Sansonetti)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:19:35 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alex* crashes: won't open ..
In-Reply-To: <20060531074219.GF2920@paradise.net.nz>
References: <20060503095021.GD3878@paradise.net.nz>
	<1be7247c0605080900u37ca10dn4b3938028ad3ff8@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060531074219.GF2920@paradise.net.nz>
Message-ID: <1be7247c0605310419u754c278cjb6db71dacaa21e56@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Adam,

(CC'ing this message to alexandria-list at rubyforge.org and not
alsa-user at sourceforge.net)

On 5/31/06, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Laurent, re.
>
> >And anyway removing this environment variable should make Alexandria
> >working as before.
>
> .. I renamed 'http_proxy' to #http_proxy# via ..
>
> >Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# mv http_proxy
> >/home/adam/.gconf/system/#http_proxy#
> >Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# ls
> >#http_proxy#  %gconf.xml  gstreamer  proxy
>

In fact this is not the GConf  variable that is problematic, but the
"http_proxy" environment variable.

Just check with "env" that you have a "http_proxy" variable, and check
out if its content is valid. Alexandria crashes because it's not (and
it should not crash BTW, instead we should ignore this variable and
continue...).

You should anyway be able to start Alexandria again like this:
$ unset http_proxy
$ alexandria

Laurent

From afb at paradise.net.nz  Wed May 31 23:54:39 2006
From: afb at paradise.net.nz (Adam Bogacki)
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:54:39 +1200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] Alex* crashes: won't open ..
In-Reply-To: <1be7247c0605310419u754c278cjb6db71dacaa21e56@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20060503095021.GD3878@paradise.net.nz>
	<1be7247c0605080900u37ca10dn4b3938028ad3ff8@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060531074219.GF2920@paradise.net.nz>
	<1be7247c0605310419u754c278cjb6db71dacaa21e56@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20060601035438.GC2897@paradise.net.nz>

Merci Laurent !
 
 On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:19:35PM +0200 or thereabouts, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> (CC'ing this message to alexandria-list at rubyforge.org and not
> alsa-user at sourceforge.net)
> 
> On 5/31/06, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >Laurent, re.
> >
> >>And anyway removing this environment variable should make Alexandria
> >>working as before.
> >
> >.. I renamed 'http_proxy' to #http_proxy# via ..
> >
> >>Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# mv http_proxy
> >>/home/adam/.gconf/system/#http_proxy#
> >>Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# ls
> >>#http_proxy#  %gconf.xml  gstreamer  proxy
> >
> 
> In fact this is not the GConf  variable that is problematic, but the
> "http_proxy" environment variable.
> 
> Just check with "env" that you have a "http_proxy" variable, and check
> out if its content is valid. Alexandria crashes because it's not (and
> it should not crash BTW, instead we should ignore this variable and
> continue...).
> 
> You should anyway be able to start Alexandria again like this:
> $ unset http_proxy
> $ alexandria
> 
> Laurent
>
It turned out I had TWO "http_proxy" enironment variables .. 

Tux:/home/adam/.gconf/system# env
SSH_AGENT_PID=2630
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/adam/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
WINDOWID=14690881
OLDPWD=/root
http_proxy=http://localhost:4001
USER=root

.. and

USERNAME=adam
SESSION_MANAGER=local/Tux:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2542
XPSERVERLIST=:64
MAIL=/var/mail/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11
<snip>
PWD=/home/adam/.gconf/system
PS1=\h:\w\$
GDMSESSION=gnome
SHLVL=2
HOME=/root
LS_OPTIONS=--color=auto
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
HTTP_PROXY=http://localhost:4001

.. but as you noted,

adam at Tux:~03:43:56$ unset http_proxy
adam at Tux:~03:44:08$ alexandria
adam at Tux:~03:51:30$

.. made it work again. I'll have to update it.

Cheers,

Adam Bogacki,
afb at paradise.net.nz [ISP]
adam.bogacki at gmail.com

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