xpci fails to run on quantal

This bug was fixed in the package xdiagnose - 3.4

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xdiagnose (3.4) raring; urgency=low

  * bin/xrotate: Add new script to manually rotate screen and input.
    Designed for the Nexus 7 tablet; will need extended to support other
    devices.
  * bin/xedid: Add new script for viewing and installing EDID files into
    firmware.
    + Fixes situation where EDID is unavailable, corrupted, or invalid
      (LP: #575985)
    + Fixes situation where KVM corrupts the EDID the monitor provides.
      (LP: #992346)
  * bin/xpci: Fix two string issues so xpci will run.
    (LP: #1098390)
  * apport/source_xorg.py: Gracefully skip Xorg.0.log parsing if the
    parsing fails.
    (LP: #1098395)
  * apport/apport-gpu-error-intel.py: Gracefully skip DMI parsing if
    the parsing fails.
    (LP: #1062042)
  * xdiagnose/applet.py: Fix bug where a stray =1 gets added to
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT.
    (LP: #954123)
  * tests: Add sample Xorg.*.log files rather than using the on-disk one
 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:17:24 -0800

Hello Bryce, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xdiagnose into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdiagnose/3.2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

It appears that when installed on quantal, even though the script specifies /usr/bin/python3, that gets stripped off and the binary is run as python2. The xpci code then gets hung up on a bytes/string conversion in python3-specific code.

I've uploaded a new 3.2.2 version with a fix - explicitly check if we're running as python2 rather than 3, and use python2-compatible string conversion in that case.

Hello Bryce, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xdiagnose into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdiagnose/3.2.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Verified fixed on quantal:

root@blumonc:~# xpci
redwood (1002:68d8) xserver-xorg-video-ati,fglrx-installer

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

This bug was fixed in the package xdiagnose - 3.2.2

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xdiagnose (3.2.2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * xpci: Conditionalize text decode syntax if defaulting to python2 instead of
    python3.
    (LP: #1098390)

xdiagnose (3.2.1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * xpci: Fix two string errors and an import error to enable script to
    run properly.
    (LP: #1098390)
 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:48:59 -0800