Re: dogtail CORBA based errors

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon redhat com>]

Zack,

Thanks for the prompt response. As it happens I installed FC6 Test 2 on 
my laptop over the weekend, and now the scripts run beautifully. I kept 
a copy of my old home directory around, so I'll see if I can replicate 
what exactly was going wrong and backward engineer a bug.

Regards

Phil

Zack Cerza wrote:
> Phil Muldoon wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On the frysk project we use Dogtail to test our Java-GNOME interface. 
> > Len - the writer of a lot of these scripts, and others, have the 
> > scripts working fine. But I encounter lots of error messages 
> > centering around:
> >
> > SpiException: Non-fatal SPIException: type:0 source:0 
> > "IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0"
> >   
> That generally means that the app that dogtail is trying to talk to 
> (via AT-SPI, via CORBA) is giving bogus replies or is not responding. 
> The exception comes from the AT-SPI/CORBA layers.
> > I've included one example here. I'm running Dogtail on a stock FC5 
> > with versions:
> >
> > dogtail-0.5.2-2.fc5
> > pyspi-0.5.5-1.fc5
> >
> > What do the Corba errors mean? How are they triggered? I'm eager to 
> > try and get the scripts to work. I've seen then run too, and it is a 
> > pretty neat site to see the ui exercised
> >   
> Is Frysk still running when this happens? My first guess would be that 
> Frysk crashed, and the next thing dogtail tries to do fails.
> > Regards
> >
> > Phil
> > ======================================================================
> > ERROR: Check that the license text is correct
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File 
> > "/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/TestLicense.py", 
> > line 79, in setUp
> >    self.frysk = startFrysk(self.FryskBinary, self.theLogWriter)
> >  File 
> > "/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/FryskHelpers.py", 
> > line 274, in startFrysk
> >    fryskObject = tree.root.application ( FRYSK_APP_NAME )
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 1077, 
> > in application
> >    return 
> > Application(root.findChild(predicate.IsAnApplicationNamed(appName),recursive=False)) 
> >
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 845, 
> > in findChild
> >    result = findFirstChildSatisfying(self, pred, recursive)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 817, 
> > in findFirstChildSatisfying
> >    if child.satisfies(pred):
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 685, 
> > in satisfies
> >    return pred.satisfiedByNode(self)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/predicate.py", line 
> > 95, in satisfiedByNode
> >    return node.roleName=='application' and 
> > stringMatches(self.appName, node.name)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/predicate.py", line 
> > 13, in stringMatches
> >    return scriptName.matchedBy(reportedName)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/i18n.py", line 160, 
> > in matchedBy
> >    return stringsMatch(self.untranslatedString, string)
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/i18n.py", line 140, 
> > in stringsMatch
> >    outString = outString.decode('utf-8')
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
> >    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 
> > 2: unexpected code byte
> >   
> The above could be a bug in dogtail. What is the value of 
> FRYSK_APP_NAME at that point?
> > ======================================================================
> > ERROR: Check that the credits text is correct
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File 
> > "/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/TestCredits.py", 
> > line 81, in setUp
> >    self.frysk = startFrysk(self.FryskBinary, self.theLogWriter)
> >  File 
> > "/home/pmuldoon/frysk/frysk-gui/frysk/gui/test/dogtail_scripts/FryskHelpers.py", 
> > line 273, in startFrysk
> >    run ( FryskBinary, appName=FRYSK_APP_NAME )
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/utils.py", line 99, 
> > in run
> >    for child in desktop.children[::-1]:
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 461, 
> > in __getattr__
> >    a = self.__accessible.getChildAtIndex (i)
> >  File "pyspi.pyx", line 497, in atspi.Accessible.getChildAtIndex
> >  File "pyspi.pyx", line 116, in atspi.exception_handler
> > SpiException: Non-fatal SPIException: type:0 source:0 
> > "IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0"
> >   
> The above traceback looks like the result of a buggy application 
> running: AT-SPI reports that the root Accessible it has X number of 
> children,  but barfs when you try to retrieve a certain one.
>
> Maybe it would be worth my getting an environment like yours set up on 
> my own system, so I could poke around to debug issues like this.
>
> Zack