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Bug 656821 - alacarte crashed with OSError in _execute_child(): [Errno 2] No such file or directory
alacarte crashed with OSError in _execute_child(): [Errno 2] No such file or ...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: alacarte
Classification: Applications
Component: general
0.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Alacarte Maintainer(s)
Alacarte Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-08-18 12:38 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2021-05-25 17:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Pedro Villavicencio 2011-08-18 12:38:46 UTC
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/826049

"went to "Main menu".

With "Main menu" open, click "New item".
A few seconds will pass and it will report that Main menu has crashed; a new menu item is not created.

Still reproducable here."

traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  • File "/usr/share/alacarte/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 311 in on_new_item_button_clicked
    process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path], env=os.environ)
  • File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679 in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  • File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1239 in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Comment 1 3vi1 2011-08-24 21:10:01 UTC
I can confirm this bug.  Happens every time and makes alacarte pretty much worthless for the moment in Ubuntu Oneiric.
Comment 2 Roman Pfarrhofer 2011-09-14 15:46:42 UTC
I also can confirm this bug under the most current oneiric. I was using Main Menu from gnome-shell, if this does matter anything. I would rate this problem high, as you cannot use Main Menu to create new items.
Comment 3 Mary Gardiner 2011-10-24 23:56:09 UTC
This is likely to be an Ubuntu packaging error rather than an upstream bug: Ubuntu is providing gnome-desktop-item-edit in gnome-panel but their alacarte package doesn't have a dependency on gnome-panel.
Comment 4 Mary Gardiner 2011-10-24 23:56:30 UTC
Sorry, should have said to see my comment at https://bugs.launchpad.net/alacarte/+bug/826049/comments/17
Comment 5 Mary Gardiner 2011-10-25 00:21:25 UTC
However, possibly it would be helpful if alacarte would push some errors up into the GUI when, eg, opening a subprocess fails. But that's a debugging assist, rather than a functionality fix.
Comment 6 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-06-01 05:13:04 UTC
gnome-desktop-item-edit comes from gnome-panel. I am looking into bundling a similar dialog in alacarte itself, which would help the code flow considerably.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2021-05-25 17:44:59 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new enhancement request ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/alacarte/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.