Troubleshooting Tips

[R. Mattes]

George Wright wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:48:30 -0500, Jeff Mountz <jmountz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I installed BloGTK and entered the particulars for my blog service and
>>when I attempted to post to the blog BloGTK closed up (crashed?).  Now
>>when I attempt to open BloGTK it appears to open for several seconds
>>(screen and fields without any text) then pffft, it's gone.  So, I
>>would like to know how to resolve the issue, but better yet I would
>>love to know how to troubleshoot such situations in general.  If
>>someone would be so kind as to point me to some helpful resources I
>>would appreciate it.
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>try launching it from the command line  -  what's the output in the
>terminal as it dies?
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ralf at hobbes:/usr/local/src$ BloGTK
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/BloGTK", line 1230, in ?
    blogtk = BloGTK()
  File "/usr/bin/BloGTK", line 133, in __init__
    self.grabConfig()
  File "/usr/bin/BloGTK", line 421, in grabConfig
    self.rpcServer = proxy.get_xmlrpc_server(self.url)
  File "/usr/lib/blogtk/proxy.py", line 66, in get_xmlrpc_server
    return server(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 1290, in __init__
    raise IOError, "unsupported XML-RPC protocol"
IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol
ralf at hobbes:/usr/local/src$

HTH Ralf Mattes

>if that doesn't help (sounds like a permissions or font problem) move
>on to running strace  blogtk (or whatever the name of the binary is)
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>It'll spit out a lot of stuff, run slowly, but you'll be able to
>pinpoint the problem - or at least get closer to being able to do so.
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>that's a start
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>hth
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>george
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