[Bug 1161953] [NEW] gnome-language-selector crashed with TypeError in _expand_pkg_pattern(): not enough arguments for format string

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Public bug reported:

This happened suddenly after a dist-upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04. The
buggy code is not always run; the same version of language-selector
launches fine on another 13.04 installation of mine.

Anyway, running the buggy code results in a fatal error, and since it's
sometimes run at the launch of language-selector (and also when running
the check-language-support command), it prevents all use of language-
selector.

The proposed fix is obvious and harmless. I think that a FinalBetaFreeze
exception is motivated.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.107
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-15.25-generic 3.8.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Fri Mar 29 17:46:14 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-11 (168 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.3 /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector']
SourcePackage: language-selector
Title: gnome-language-selector crashed with TypeError in _expand_pkg_pattern(): not enough arguments for format string
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-29 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin lpadmin sambashare

** Affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-crash i386 need-duplicate-check raring

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Title:
  gnome-language-selector crashed with TypeError in
  _expand_pkg_pattern(): not enough arguments for format string

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This happened suddenly after a dist-upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04. The
  buggy code is not always run; the same version of language-selector
  launches fine on another 13.04 installation of mine.

  Anyway, running the buggy code results in a fatal error, and since
  it's sometimes run at the launch of language-selector (and also when
  running the check-language-support command), it prevents all use of
  language-selector.

  The proposed fix is obvious and harmless. I think that a
  FinalBetaFreeze exception is motivated.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.107
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-15.25-generic 3.8.4
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-15-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: i386
  CrashCounter: 1
  Date: Fri Mar 29 17:46:14 2013
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-11 (168 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.3
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python3.3 /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector']
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  Title: gnome-language-selector crashed with TypeError in _expand_pkg_pattern(): not enough arguments for format string
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-29 (0 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin lpadmin sambashare

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