[Bug 1989203] Re: Manuskript crashes on start
Aaron Rainbolt
1989203 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Feb 8 00:27:48 UTC 2023
** Description changed:
[Impact]
Manuskript is an open-source tool for writers. Its main purpose is
writing novels, books, and the like. It does not have any reverse
dependencies.
In Ubuntu 22.04 and presumably all flavors thereof (at least Lubuntu),
the Manuskript package is currently entirely broken. Attempting to
launch it from its button in the application menu does nothing, while
attempting to launch it from a terminal results in a very messy error
message, which is detailed more thoroughly in the original bug report.
This renders Manuskript entirely unusable.
- Updating the Manuskript package to version 0.14.0 appears to fix the
- problem in my testing. All of the changes made between the current
- version of Manuskript in the archive (0.12.0) and the new version
- (0.14.0) appear to be either bug fixes, or very minor feature
- improvements that arguably are bug fixes. Some of the "implemented
- features" in the upstream changelog for Manuskript aren't implemented at
- all, but are rather simply closed bugs because a feature already existed
- or was deferred to be worked on much later. I therefore think it's safe
- to say that the entirety of all the changes recorded in Manuskript's
- changelog between versions 0.12.0 and 0.14.0 are bug fixes, and that it
- is reasonable to upgrade the package wholesale rather than attempting to
- backport individual fixes ourselves.
+ This patch backports the following Git commit to the existing version of
+ Manuskript in Ubuntu:
+ https://github.com/olivierkes/manuskript/commit/15edb6efb7305b9d1a192712660857ca38facace
+ This appears to fix the problem in my testing.
Those who have Manuskript already installed on their systems currently
are unable to use it at all, from my testing. Those who have Manuskript
installed already should be able to use Manuskript again after this
upgrade is installed.
[Test Plan]
1. Install Ubuntu 22.04 or 22.10 into a virtual machine, or use an existing installation thereof.
2. Fully update the new installation (sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade)
3. Install the current version of Manuskript (sudo apt install manuskript)
4. Attempt to launch the program from the terminal - the error message described in the original bug report should appear.
- 5. Build the Manuskript package using the official upstream tarball and the new packaging. (The tarball can be found at https://github.com/olivierkes/manuskript/archive/refs/tags/0.14.0.tar.gz, you will have to rename it to "manuskript_0.14.0.orig.tar.gz" for sbuild to accept it if you're building with sbuild.)
- 6. Install the newly build Manuskript package into Ubuntu.
- 7. Attempt to launch Manuskript from the terminal - it should launch successfully this itme.
- 8. Create a new Manuskript project, make a change to it, save it, and close Manuskript.
- 9. Attempt to open the saved project. The saved changes should appear.
-
- I have done all of this testing locally using Lubuntu 22.04 and Lubuntu
- 22.10, and all operations went as expected.
+ 5. Enable -proposed and install the new version of Manuskript from -proposed.
+ 6. Attempt to launch Manuskript from the terminal - it should launch successfully this itme.
+ 7. Create a new Manuskript project, make sure that Markdown highlighting works, and
+ 8. Attempt to open the saved project. The saved changes should appear.
[Where problems could occur]
- Possible upstream coding errors could lead to new bugs introduced into
- the package. However, since the program can't even launch in its current
- state, things can't get a whole lot worse, so I'd say it's worth the
- risk, especially since all of the changes appear to be bugfixes.
-
- As for the packaging side of things, if the package version number I
- selected is wrong, it could lead to problems like the package not
- upgrading, or issues uploading the package to the archives. However,
- such problems will be easily caught by reviewing the packaging diff, and
- I was careful in selecting the version numbers, so it would be
- surprising if this went wrong.
+ A typo or malformed line in the patch could potentially result in
+ Manuskript being still unable to launch, or cause strange behavior with
+ the modified code (which appears to deal with colors, and so would
+ likely cause colors somewhere to look wrong). The above test plan will
+ catch major failures, and careful checking of the code (by making sure
+ my patch matches with the upstream commit) should ensure that colors
+ don't end up messed up.
---
Original bug report:
On Wayland it warns about it not liking Wayland before crashing; on Xorg
it immediately crashes on the unhandled exception:
biep at blok:~$ manuskript
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
CRITICAL> An unhandled exception has occurred!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/manuskript", line 30, in <module>
main.run()
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/main.py", line 292, in run
app, MW = prepare(arguments)
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/main.py", line 171, in prepare
from manuskript.mainWindow import MainWindow
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/mainWindow.py", line 23, in <module>
from manuskript.models.worldModel import worldModel
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/models/worldModel.py", line 11, in <module>
from manuskript.ui import style as S
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/ui/style.py", line 36, in <module>
highlightLight = F.mixColors(highlight, window, .3)
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/functions/__init__.py", line 197, in mixColors
return QColor(r, g, b) if not fromString else QColor(r, g, b).name()
TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
QColor(Qt.GlobalColor): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(int): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(QRgba64): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(Any): too many arguments
QColor(): too many arguments
QColor(int, int, int, alpha: int = 255): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(str): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(Union[QColor, Qt.GlobalColor, QGradient]): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: manuskript 0.12.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-47.51-generic 5.15.46
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 9 16:44:06 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-27 (864 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: manuskript
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-09-08 (1 days ago)
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Title:
Manuskript crashes on start
Status in manuskript package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in manuskript source package in Jammy:
Confirmed
Status in manuskript source package in Kinetic:
Confirmed
Status in manuskript package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
[Impact]
Manuskript is an open-source tool for writers. Its main purpose is
writing novels, books, and the like. It does not have any reverse
dependencies.
In Ubuntu 22.04 and presumably all flavors thereof (at least Lubuntu),
the Manuskript package is currently entirely broken. Attempting to
launch it from its button in the application menu does nothing, while
attempting to launch it from a terminal results in a very messy error
message, which is detailed more thoroughly in the original bug report.
This renders Manuskript entirely unusable.
This patch backports the following Git commit to the existing version
of Manuskript in Ubuntu:
https://github.com/olivierkes/manuskript/commit/15edb6efb7305b9d1a192712660857ca38facace
This appears to fix the problem in my testing.
Those who have Manuskript already installed on their systems currently
are unable to use it at all, from my testing. Those who have
Manuskript installed already should be able to use Manuskript again
after this upgrade is installed.
[Test Plan]
1. Install Ubuntu 22.04 or 22.10 into a virtual machine, or use an existing installation thereof.
2. Fully update the new installation (sudo apt update && sudo apt -y full-upgrade)
3. Install the current version of Manuskript (sudo apt install manuskript)
4. Attempt to launch the program from the terminal - the error message described in the original bug report should appear.
5. Enable -proposed and install the new version of Manuskript from -proposed.
6. Attempt to launch Manuskript from the terminal - it should launch successfully this itme.
7. Create a new Manuskript project, make sure that Markdown highlighting works, and
8. Attempt to open the saved project. The saved changes should appear.
[Where problems could occur]
A typo or malformed line in the patch could potentially result in
Manuskript being still unable to launch, or cause strange behavior
with the modified code (which appears to deal with colors, and so
would likely cause colors somewhere to look wrong). The above test
plan will catch major failures, and careful checking of the code (by
making sure my patch matches with the upstream commit) should ensure
that colors don't end up messed up.
---
Original bug report:
On Wayland it warns about it not liking Wayland before crashing; on
Xorg it immediately crashes on the unhandled exception:
biep at blok:~$ manuskript
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
CRITICAL> An unhandled exception has occurred!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/manuskript", line 30, in <module>
main.run()
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/main.py", line 292, in run
app, MW = prepare(arguments)
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/main.py", line 171, in prepare
from manuskript.mainWindow import MainWindow
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/mainWindow.py", line 23, in <module>
from manuskript.models.worldModel import worldModel
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/models/worldModel.py", line 11, in <module>
from manuskript.ui import style as S
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/ui/style.py", line 36, in <module>
highlightLight = F.mixColors(highlight, window, .3)
File "/usr/share/manuskript/manuskript/functions/__init__.py", line 197, in mixColors
return QColor(r, g, b) if not fromString else QColor(r, g, b).name()
TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
QColor(Qt.GlobalColor): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(int): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(QRgba64): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(Any): too many arguments
QColor(): too many arguments
QColor(int, int, int, alpha: int = 255): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(str): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
QColor(Union[QColor, Qt.GlobalColor, QGradient]): argument 1 has unexpected type 'float'
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: manuskript 0.12.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-47.51-generic 5.15.46
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 9 16:44:06 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-27 (864 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: manuskript
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-09-08 (1 days ago)
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