Re: Big Zenmap news

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:48:06PM +0100, jah wrote:
> On 26/08/2008 06:37, David Fifield wrote:
> > Do you get the crash if you edit zenmapCore/Nmap.py and change the
> > Unicode strings to plain strings? So change
> >
> > APP_NAME = u"zenmap"
> >
> > to 
> >
> > APP_NAME = "zenmap"
> >
> > for all the strings. If so then the problem isn't Vladimir's fault, it's
> > something I did to try to fix the database file not being found on
> > Windows.
> >
> > http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q3/0482.html
> I changed these strings in zenmapCore/Name.py and it builds without
> error.  So it looks like you're right.  I haven't looked into this in
> any great detail, but there's mention here [1] that this error could be
> thrown upon the attempt to decode an already unicode string as unicode -
> which seems to make sense since the files are marked with utf-8.
>
> Anyway once that error was out of the way, upon running zenmap.exe I got:
> CRASH REPORTED:
> SYS.PLATFORM: win32
> OS.NAME: nt
> Zenmap Version: 4.68
> TRACEBACK:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "zenmap", line 100, in <module>
>   File "zenmapGUI\App.pyo", line 139, in run
>   File "zenmapGUI\App.pyo", line 83, in is_root
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getuid'
>
> Which I fixed by swapping the tests for os.getuid() and sys.platform in
> is_root so that the test for windows came first:
>
> return os.getuid() == 0 or sys.platform == "win32" or is_maemo()
>
> to
>
> return sys.platform == "win32" or os.getuid() == 0 or is_maemo()

Thanks, I applied it. This had already been done in r9446 but because
the test was moved to a different file it because a casualty of the
merge.

David Fifield

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