GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 101880
Errors loading plugins at startup
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
On startup I get the following errors ... Errors while initializing plugin system. Errors while reading info about available plugins. Errors occurred while reading plugin informations from file "/usr/local/garnome-0.19.5/lib/gnumeric/1.1.13-bonobo/plugins/excel/plugin.xml". File "/usr/local/garnome-0.19.5/lib/gnumeric/1.1.13-bonobo/plugins/excel/plugin.xml" is not valid plugin info file. And so-on, seemingly through all the plugins. However the (native) spreadsheet does load. Additionally, when I attempt to open a spreadsheet in a nautilus view I get an error saying "Gnumeric Workbook view encountered an error starting up". This is under garnome-0.19.5, gnumeric 1.1.13.
Odd. Can you send us a sample of one of the plugin files that is failing ?
Running from the command-line I get the following extra information: /usr/local/garnome-0.19.5/lib/gnumeric/1.1.13-bonobo/plugins/excel/plugin.xml:47: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! <description xml:lang="sk">Importuje a exportuje súbory MS Excel 9(tm)</descr ^ As a data-point, gnumeric is compiled against libxml2 version 2.4.30. Sorry, can't attach the file, bugzilla is being surly. However, it's the version that came with Gnumeric.
Supposdly the "-u" flag sent to intltool-merge instructs it to convert all data to utf-8.
Hmm. I can not replicate this. The current version of intltool appears to use the -u flag for INTLTOOL_XML_RULE. What version of intltool do you have installed ? That is what generates the plugin.xml files during the build. intltoolize --version will tell you.
$ intltoolize --version intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.24
Hmm. I haven't tested with 0.24 yet. Its possible that something screwed up. Try downgrading to 0.23.
I still can't replicate this with 0.25