Re: zenmap as root error

["Guilherme Polo" <ggpolo () gmail com>]

2008/4/1, João Medeiros <ignotus21 () gmail com>:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo () gmail com> wrote:
>  >  But, for PyGtk 2.8 and earlier I would suggest doing this in a
>  >  different manner (and much simpler and less error-prone):
>  >
>  >  try:
>  >     import gtk
>  >  except ImportError, e:
>  >     print e
>  >
>  >  For PyGtk 2.10 and newer, ImportError is actually a warning so the
>  >  code changes a bit:
>  >
>  >  import warnings
>  >  warnings.filterwarnings('error', module='gtk')
>  >  try:
>  >     import gtk
>  >  except Warning, w:
>  >     print w
>  >  warnings.resetwarnings()
>  >
>
>
> I think that just display the an eventually warning is not enough. We
>  have to leave segfault.

If this Warning happens, it implies the gtk engine couldn't start and
the app wouldn't run anyway (or could try and segfault). Also, you
could just call exit after your print that message, it was just a
correct template on how to proceed when importing gtk fails.

> By this way we have to check if the waring is
>  associated to display too.

Why ? Just checking for DISPLAY, like you proposed, doesn't solve this.

>  Att, João Medeiros.


-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves

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