meld crashes with AttributeError on startup

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I suspect there is another Python module named "misc" somewhere on your system.

To help confirm this, could you open a Terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and type the following command:

python -c "import misc; print misc.__file__"

and paste the output in here.

Reproducible with an empty misc.py file in the python search path.

Yes, you were correct. That was the issue. Now I am just noticing that it wasn't an AssertionError, but an AttributeError. Whoops.

I suppose that is the danger of relative imports. Perhaps the application could be rewritten to use absolute imports instead, in case someone has `misc`, `tree`, `paths`, etc. modules in their python path? Any of those would cause meld to crash similarly.

A new upstream release have been uploaded to Jaunty archives. Please test the new version and report if this bug still reproducible.

None of the problematic files have been renamed, so the bug should still be there...

Found the bug in Debian, which they've fixed by putting the Meld directory at the start of sys.path rather than at the end (preferring all of Meld's internals to other packages installed on the system).

Is fixed in 1.2.1-1

Oops other upstream bug was a duplicate

I just committed the upstream fix in meld git HEAD.

But I cannot update this bug's status, so I'll let someone who can handle it.

$ meld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 38, in <module>
    gettext.bindtextdomain("meld", paths.locale_dir())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'locale_dir'

$ python -c "import misc; print misc.__file__"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named misc

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

bug still in jaunty official package :s
:S :S

Yes you'll have to get upstream git source code from the git repository if you want the fix, the jaunty version is still the old one...

In bug #360097 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meld/+bug/360097)

VinceLe said:
edit /usr/bin/meld, at line 32, you should see something like:
sys.path += [ "/usr/lib/meld" ]
try to replace the line with:
sys.path[0:0] = [ "/usr/lib/meld" ]

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Well.. i do what he said and it works!
I know that the bug has a "Fix Released" status, but i think that is important to write a comment.

Hi,

This will be fixed in Karmic, with version 1.3.0-1