#119 ✓fixed
Virgil Dupras

Crash when the app is started from a long folder name

Reported by Virgil Dupras | November 18th, 2010 @ 12:27 PM

If the folder from which dupeGuru is started is long (the limit seems to be 138 characters), it crashes on startup.

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  • Virgil Dupras

    Virgil Dupras November 19th, 2010 @ 11:48 AM

    • Assigned user set to “Virgil Dupras”
  • Virgil Dupras

    Virgil Dupras November 19th, 2010 @ 12:04 PM

    • State changed from “accepted” to “hold”

    I have located the cause of the crash, and it seems to be Python's fault. You don't even need to run dupeGuru to cause such crash. All you need is to have a very big PYTHONPATH. Example:

    export PYTHONPATH=/Applications/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc/dupeGuru.app/Contents/Resources/dg_cocoa.plugin/Contents/Resources:/Applications/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc/dupeGuru.app/Contents/Resources/dg_cocoa.plugin/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.1:/Applications/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc/dupeGuru.app/Contents/Resources/dg_cocoa.plugin/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.1/lib-dynload:/Applications/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc/dupeGuru.app/Contents/Resources/dg_cocoa.plugin/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.1/site-packages.zip:/Applications/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb/ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc/dupeGuru.app/Contents/Resources/dg_cocoa.plugin/Contents/Resources/lib/python31.zip
$ python
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udd4f' in position 5: surrogates not allowed
Abort trap

    When I run python from the trunk, this crash doesn't happen. I think it's due to Victor Stinner's tremendous work to straighten out wchar messiness in Python 3.2. So I'll just wait for 3.2 to be out.

  • Virgil Dupras

    Virgil Dupras February 22nd, 2011 @ 03:33 PM

    • State changed from “hold” to “fixed”

    Now that dupeGuru uses pluginbuilder, it can be built with python 3.2, which fixes this bug.

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