[Python-modules-team] Bug#611908: namebench: tries to launch google chrome (which is not in debian)

[Jason Woofenden]

Package: namebench
Version: 1.3.1+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Awesome program!

When it was done it failed to show the results, and instead said:

Error showing url: Failed to execute child process
"/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome" (No such file or directory)

in the calling terminal.

The graphical interface says nothing about this, and displays the
public URL in a way that cannot be clicked or even selected.

Fortunately it also printed the location of the generated html file
in the terminal, so I was able to see my results (by pasting into
my browser and prepending "file://".)

I can see in the "Query Data Source" pulldown that namebench
correctly detected three browsers I have installed (Chromium,
Firefox, Midori). Now it's just gotta use one of those to display
the results, instead of failing to find a non-free browser.

I selected Chromium as the data source, in case that's relevant.

Thank you,   - Jason


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages namebench depends on:
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-dnspython        1.8.0-1          DNS toolkit for Python
ii  python-graphy           1.0+dfsg-1       chart generation library for Pytho
ii  python-httplib2         0.6.0-4          comprehensive HTTP client library 
ii  python-jinja2           2.5.5-1          small but fast and easy to use sta
ii  python-simplejson       2.1.3-1          simple, fast, extensible JSON enco
ii  python-support          1.0.11           automated rebuilding support for P

Versions of packages namebench recommends:
ii  chromium-browser [ww 9.0.597.83~r72435-1 Chromium browser
ii  iceweasel [www-brows 3.5.16-4            Web browser based on Firefox
ii  midori [www-browser] 0.3.0-1.1           fast, lightweight graphical web br
ii  python-tk            2.6.6-1             Tkinter - Writing Tk applications 
ii  surf [www-browser]   0.4.1-4             simple web browser
ii  w3m [www-browser]    0.5.2-10            WWW browsable pager with excellent

namebench suggests no packages.

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