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1. Use latest, fully updated clean installation of Ubuntu 24.04.1.
2. Run "sudo apt install chirp" to install the latest CHIRP package.
3. Run "chirpw". CHIRP crashes.
4. Run "dpkg -l chirp" to confirm the installed version.
5. Enable the "noble-proposed" repository.
6. Run "sudo apt install -t noble-proposed chirp".
7. Run "chirpw".
8. Run "dpkg -l chirp" to confirm the installed version.

$ dpkg -l chirp
1:20240224-1ubuntu0.1

I can confirm that CHIRP no longer crashes on startup. Thanks!

** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-noble
** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-noble

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Title:
  [SRU - Noble] Backport crash fix

Status in chirp package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in chirp source package in Noble:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]
  CHIRP contains a regression that causes it to crash on launch when no existing config file is found (e.g. clear installation).

  The regression is an oversight in the refactoring of the recent file
  handling. It results in the CHIRP application being completely
  unusable, crashing every time immediately after startup and there is
  no easy workaround available.

  [ Test Plan ]
  On an installation of noble:

  * sudo apt install chirp
  * chirpw
  * Observe failure with the back-trace present in the original description below
  * Enable proposed (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed)
  * sudo apt install -t noble-proposed chirp
  * chirpw
  * Observe application starts successfully

  The fix has already been tested manually by others, but as soon as a
  version with the patch present is available, a user should install the
  updated chirp package and the program should launch without any
  crashes.

  [ Regression Potential ]
  Very low. The application already fails to start "out of the box" and hence can't regress much further, and there's only a single reverse-recommends (from hamradio-rigcontrol) on the package.

  The fix is directly from upstream, already present in Ubuntu Oracular,
  and minimal, adding one line of code with an if conditional to remove
  the "state" section only if it exists, thus fixing the "No section:
  'state'" error.

  [ Where problems could occur ]
  The only change is in the one line of code that handles "cleaning of higher-order entries if they exist" and was previously attempting to remove them even if they did not exist, resulting in a fatal error.

  [ Other Info ]
  It has been fixed as a part of the new CHIRP version from the Debian package 20240413-1 which has been synced to Oracular.

  Here is the upstream commit that needs to be added as a patch to the
  Noble SRU:
  https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp/commit/0885555196b94ffad44acc7ca9b37a1ba67b815e

  [ Original Bug Description ]
  Chirp (1:20240224-1) on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS crashes on startup with:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/chirpw", line 33, in <module>
      sys.exit(load_entry_point('chirp==20240224', 'console_scripts', 'chirpw')())
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/wxui/__init__.py", line 178, in chirpmain
      mainwindow = main.ChirpMain(None, title='CHIRP')
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/wxui/main.py", line 415, in __init__
      self.SetMenuBar(self.make_menubar())
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/wxui/main.py", line 656, in make_menubar
      self.adj_menu_open_recent(None)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/wxui/main.py", line 1025, in adj_menu_open_recent
      CONF.remove_option('recent%i' % i, 'state')
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/wxui/config.py", line 160, in remove_option
      self._config.remove_option(section, key)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/chirp/wxui/config.py", line 64, in remove_option
      self.__config.remove_option(section, key)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 924, in remove_option
      raise NoSectionError(section) from None
  configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'state'

  This is fixed in the latest version from Oracular (1:20240413-1). In
  Noble, it is possible to fix it by applying the following simple
  patch:

  https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp/commit/0885555196b94ffad44acc7ca9b37a1ba67b815e

  (Line 1025 instead of 1041 in chirp 20240224-1.)

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