Bug 2326632

Summary: Crash at the startup on Fedora 41 after using it few times and adding two books
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: thebatta <thebatta>
Component: alexandriaAssignee: Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 41CC: mtasaka
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: alexandria-0.7.9-9.fc41 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description thebatta@gmail.com 2024-11-15 22:30:44 UTC 
The following dump is produced by starting Alexandria from terminal on an update Fedora 41 OS.  I used the software a couple of time and was starting even if showing some problems in windows dimensions, it crashed after clicking to open a book recently added. After a couple of crashes like that it just stopped to startup. Now lunching from terminal I get:
```
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Alexandria just crashed
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Timestamp: 2024-11-14 14:48:16 +0100
Message: uninitialized constant Syck::UNESCAPES
Backtrace:
/usr/share/gems/gems/syck-1.5.1.1/lib/syck/encoding.rb:30:in `block in unescape'
/usr/share/gems/gems/syck-1.5.1.1/lib/syck/encoding.rb:24:in `gsub'
/usr/share/gems/gems/syck-1.5.1.1/lib/syck/encoding.rb:24:in `unescape'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:222:in `regularize_book_from_yaml'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:60:in `block (2 levels) in load_library'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:48:in `each'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:48:in `block in load_library'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:47:in `chdir'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:47:in `load_library'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:30:in `block in load_all_libraries'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:24:in `each'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb:24:in `load_all_libraries'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_collection.rb:20:in `reload'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb:604:in `load_libraries'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb:33:in `initialize'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:57:in `new'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:57:in `initialize'
/usr/share/ruby/singleton.rb:124:in `new'
/usr/share/ruby/singleton.rb:124:in `block in instance'
/usr/share/ruby/singleton.rb:124:in `synchronize'
/usr/share/ruby/singleton.rb:124:in `instance'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui.rb:42:in `start_main_app'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui.rb:54:in `main'
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria.rb:38:in `main'
/usr/bin/alexandria:37:in `<main>'
Release: 0.7.9(0.7.9)
Uname -a: Linux AAAAA-lap 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov  1 16:16:00 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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```
Alexandria developer suggested:
it looks like the problem is in a patch that Fedora applies: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/alexandria/blob/rawhide/f/alexandria-0.7.9-yaml-unescape.patch.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2024-11-16 13:36:40 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-727a3b8117 (alexandria-0.7.9-9.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-727a3b8117
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2024-11-16 13:38:17 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-a8318b66d0 (alexandria-0.7.9-9.fc40) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 40.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a8318b66d0
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2024-11-17 03:55:17 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-727a3b8117 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-727a3b8117`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-727a3b8117

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2024-11-17 08:29:07 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-a8318b66d0 has been pushed to the Fedora 40 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-a8318b66d0`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a8318b66d0

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2024-11-25 01:55:05 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-727a3b8117 (alexandria-0.7.9-9.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2024-11-25 03:53:20 UTC 
FEDORA-2024-a8318b66d0 (alexandria-0.7.9-9.fc40) has been pushed to the Fedora 40 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.