Bug#361805: bug-buddy: fails to update bug information and crashes afterwards

[Dirk De Groote]

Package: bug-buddy
Version: 2.8.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

tested on 2 computers, with same result : lauching "bug-buddy" proposes
you to update your bug-information. Clicking "update" starts downloading
6 (4 on the other box) updates. Then an error message appears :
"application has quit unexpectedly" and you get 3 options : "restart
app", "close" or "inform developpers" ( the latter being impossible
since that one tries to launch "bug-buddy" ...). Selecting "restart"
puts you back in the "update" loop , this time only requiering 2 updates
, but those never succeed ... same loop all over : crash --> restart -->
update --> crash --> restart ... etc.

Didn't find any related bug report on the web .

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-cube01
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages bug-buddy depends on:
ii  gdb                6.3-6                 The GNU Debugger
ii  libart-2.0-2       2.3.17-1              Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.8.0-4               The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0       2.8.1-2               Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0     2.8.1-2               The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6              2.3.2.ds1-22          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4        2.8.1-6               GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0        1:2.4.2-2             library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.6.4-1               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2 2.8.3-2               Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0        2.8.1-2               The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0  2.8.0-1               A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0       2.8.1-3               The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0     2.8.4-4               The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.6.4-3.1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6            4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2          1:2.12.2-1            libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.8.1-1               Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0           1.7-5                 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notific 0.8-1                 library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxml2            2.6.16-7              GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper       0.3.14-10             A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs              4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2     compression library - runtime

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