'im-config -l' complains about zenity not installed

The package name concerned is language-selector-gnome : why does this page keeps reverting it back to language-selector?

Thanks for your report, Mélodie. language-selector is the source package from which the binary package language-selector-gnome is built.

Adding zenity as a dependency might fix it, but it wouldn't make much sense, since language-selector-gnome does not make use of it. language-selector-gnome calls im-config via the shell command "im-config -l", and it's the latter which complains about zenity not being installed. Since that command just echos a variable, that complaint is unwarranted.

I think this is best fixed in im-config, so I changed the affected package and I attached a patch that simply moves a piece of code before the UI sanity check.

@Osamu: Do you think that change would be ok?

@Mélodie: Out of curiosity: What's the reason why zenity was not installed on your machine? It's shipped by default in standard Ubuntu (depends on ubuntu-desktop). Are you using one of the flavours?

> @Mélodie: Out of curiosity: What's the reason why zenity was not installed on your machine? It's shipped by default in standard Ubuntu (depends on ubuntu-desktop). Are you using one of the flavours?

Hi Gunnar,
I am using my own remix upgraded to Vivid, which has for name Bento Openbox Remix.
( http://linuxvillage.org/en/2015/04/sushi-trusty-in-test/ - https://launchpad.net/bento-dev )

Thanks!

Thanks

This bug was fixed in the package im-config - 0.29-1ubuntu8

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im-config (0.29-1ubuntu8) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/03-not-always-require-zenity.patch:
    Get rid of unwarrented crash of gnome-language-selector when
    calling "im-config -l" (LP: #1450147).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:45:00 +0100

Hello Mélodie, or anyone else affected,

Accepted im-config into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/im-config/0.24-1ubuntu4.2 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!

Hello Mélodie, or anyone else affected,

Accepted im-config into wily-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/im-config/0.29-1ubuntu7.1 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!

I have successfully installed and run:
- im-config 0.24-1ubuntu4.2 on trusty
- im-config 0.29-1ubuntu7.1 on wily

language-selector-gnome can now be run without zenity being installed.

Hello,

I don't get a good result in Vivid. The program starts, then disappears. In console:
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$ gnome-language-selector

(gnome-language-selector:19985): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:2:16: Theming engine 'adwaita' not found

(gnome-language-selector:19985): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:62:15: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(gnome-language-selector:19985): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:62:17: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(gnome-language-selector:19985): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:909:16: Theming engine 'adwaita' not found
E : zenity doit être installé.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector", line 22, in on_activate
    options=options)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 199, in __init__
    self.check_input_methods()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 54, in wrapper
    res = f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py", line 454, in check_input_methods
    for (i, IM) in enumerate(self.ImConfig.getAvailableInputMethods()):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/LanguageSelector/ImConfig.py", line 19, in getAvailableInputMethods
    inputMethods = subprocess.check_output(['im-config', '-l']).decode().split()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/subprocess.py", line 620, in check_output
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['im-config', '-l']' returned non-zero exit status 1

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The packages installed:
accountsservice (version 0.6.37-1ubuntu10.1) sera installé
im-config (version 0.29-1ubuntu2) sera installé
language-selector-common (version 0.143) sera installé
language-selector-gnome (version 0.143) sera installé
libaccountsservice0 (version 0.6.37-1ubuntu10.1) sera installé

zenity is not installed:
$ apt-cache policy zenity
zenity:
  Installé : (aucun)
  Candidat : 3.14.0-1
 Table de version :
     3.14.0-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
$

If I install it:
$ sudo apt-get install zenity
...
$

Then retry:
$ gnome-language-selector

(gnome-language-selector:21113): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:2:16: Theming engine 'adwaita' not found

(gnome-language-selector:21113): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:62:15: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(gnome-language-selector:21113): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:62:17: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(gnome-language-selector:21113): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:909:16: Theming engine 'adwaita' not found

*******

I still get these few warnings but now it works.

Gunnar are you sure you don't have any Zenity in none of your two installs? (could you check with apt-cache policy?). Else, is there another test I should do?

They are only in -proposed so far. Either you'll need to enable -proposed and install from there, or wait a couple of weeks until they are moved to -updates.

Wait... You said vivid. I didn't make a patch for vivid, since it will be EOL in a couple of months.

Oh ok, I retry in a Trusty version and I'll be right back.

Ok, I tried with Trusty in Virtualbox, updated im-config, removed zenity : gnome-language-selector works!

Thanks for your good job. :)

This bug was fixed in the package im-config - 0.24-1ubuntu4.2

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im-config (0.24-1ubuntu4.2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/03-not-always-require-zenity.patch:
    Get rid of unwarrented crash of gnome-language-selector when
    calling "im-config -l" (LP: #1450147).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:45:00 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for im-config 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 regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package im-config - 0.29-1ubuntu7.1

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im-config (0.29-1ubuntu7.1) wily-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/03-not-always-require-zenity.patch:
    Get rid of unwarrented crash of gnome-language-selector when
    calling "im-config -l" (LP: #1450147).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:45:00 +0100

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:26:45PM -0000, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> @Osamu: Do you think that change would be ok?

I say change is needed.

But not just -l but other cases when it is not required too.

Osamu