Description of problem: Upon launching slingshot in any way (from menu, launch dialog or command line) a black window appears and instantly disappears again. No information is given on the command line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): slingshot-0.8.1p-4.fc12.noarch.rpm How reproducible: Try and run slingshot Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a terminal window. 2. run slingshot Actual results: A windows appears for an instant, and disappears again. The terminal show nothing more than: [dirk@fedora ~]$ slingshot [dirk@fedora ~]$ Expected results: I expected slingshot to run. Additional info: Everything was working fine in Fedora 13. [dirk@fedora ~]$ uname -r 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 [dirk@fedora ~]$ python --version Python 2.7
Created attachment 459760 [details] python -v slingshot.py Reproducible here. slingshot.noarch 0.8.1p-4.fc12
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Found in log slingshot.py: abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in slingshot.py
Created attachment 464702 [details] ~/.slingshot/logfile.txt The logfile created by slingshot itself seems to show the exception quite clearly.
slingshot-0.8.1p-5.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/slingshot-0.8.1p-5.fc14
slingshot-0.8.1p-5.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update slingshot'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/slingshot-0.8.1p-5.fc14
The update works great for me, thanks.
*** Bug 661822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
slingshot-0.8.1p-5.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.