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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahmad Syukri Abdollah [2015-01-11 11:06 -0000]:
> I was scheming to update Zim to use gnome-introspection, but to
> ensure smooth transition to GTK3, I wanted to make sure it ran well
> on GTK2 first.  Looks like I have to go guerilla…

Yeah, I'm afraid the GTK 2 → 3 and pygtk → GI transitions can't be
decoupled from each other. pygtkcompat might help quite a bit, but
it's also just a crutch. I think it's preferable to just port programs
all the way to clean GTK3+GI.

Thanks,

Martin

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1409193

Title:
  pygtkcompat crashes when using gtk2

Status in pygobject package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Running the following python script:

      import pygtkcompat
      pygtkcompat.enable_gtk(version='2.0')

  crashes both python2.7 and python3.4.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: python2.7-minimal 2.7.6-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-43.72-generic 3.13.11.11
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-43-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Jan 10 12:06:49 2015
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-07 (216 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcCmdline: python trygtk2.py
  SegvAnalysis:
   Segfault happened at: 0x7fd0cdd6d2ff <_pygi_argument_to_object+831>:	cmpq   $0x4c,(%rax)
   PC (0x7fd0cdd6d2ff) ok
   source "$0x4c" ok
   destination "(%rax)" (0xc6e00047d000083) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
  SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
  Signal: 11
  SourcePackage: python2.7
  StacktraceTop:
   _pygi_argument_to_object (arg=arg@entry=0x7fffac3511d0, type_info=type_info@entry=0x250ab20, transfer=transfer@entry=GI_TRANSFER_NOTHING) at ../../gi/pygi-argument.c:1434
   _wrap_g_constant_info_get_value (self=0x7fd0c7b8dd00) at ../../gi/pygi-info.c:1713
   PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
   ?? ()
   ?? ()
  Title: python2.7 crashed with SIGSEGV in _pygi_argument_to_object()
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data

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