[Python-apps-team] Bug#718230: nagstamon: fails to open GUI after fresh install

[Vincent McIntyre]

Package: nagstamon
Version: 0.9.7.1-1~bpo60+1
Severity: normal


% sudo apt-get install nagstamon
% nagstamon
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/nagstamon", line 89, in <module>
    GUI.Settings(servers=servers, output=output, conf=conf)
  File "/usr/share/nagstamon/Nagstamon/GUI.py", line 2076, in __init__
    self.builder.add_from_file(self.builderfile)
glib.GError: Unknown internal child: selection

The 'desktop' is fvwm, started with startx.
Is nagstamon expecting some service only provided by gnome/kde/xfce?

The manpage mentions a 'configuration file' but does not disclose
the filesystem location of the file. The upstream docs do not either,
as far as I can see. From reading /usr/bin/nagstamon it appears to be
/usr/share/nagstamon/Nagstamon/Config.py.
That code also checks for 'nagstamon.conf' in various places.
I can find no discussion of what contents nagstamon.conf should have.
The documentation perhaps should be a separate bug -
'no documentation of config file' or so, but that's your call.

Cheers
Vince

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (990, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nagstamon depends on:
ii  librsvg2-common         2.26.3-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze7 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-beautifulsoup    3.2.0-2~bpo60+1  error-tolerant HTML parser for Pyt
ii  python-eggtrayicon      2.25.3-7         Python module to display icons in 
ii  python-gtk2             2.17.0-4         Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-pkg-resources    0.6.14-4         Package Discovery and Resource Acc
ii  sox                     14.3.1-1+b1      Swiss army knife of sound processi

nagstamon recommends no packages.

nagstamon suggests no packages.

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