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[edit] Version 11 segfault

Hi Chris,

VandalSniper is crashing on me. Any more debugging information I can you provide you with? If you want to talk directly to me via IM, you can find all my contact details at my homepage. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~alau/

% ./vs.exe

(Gecko:7588): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1739: instance `0x843d9f8' has no handler with id `474'

** (Gecko:7588): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /usr/local/vandalsniper-11/vs.exe could not be loaded:
     Assembly:   System.Web    (assemblyref_index=7)
     Version:    1.0.5000.0
     Public Key: b03f5f7f11d50a3a
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/usr/local/vandalsniper-11/).


** (Gecko:7588): WARNING **: Missing method HtmlDecode in assembly /usr/local/vandalsniper-11/vs.exe, type System.Web.HttpUtility

** ERROR **: file mini.c: line 9665 (mono_jit_compile_method_inner): should not be reached
aborting...
zsh: abort (core dumped)  ./vs.exe

% dpkg -l mono libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgecko2.0-cil
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version                       Description
+++-=============================-=============================-==========================================================================
ii  libgecko2.0-cil               0.11-3                        CLI binding for the GtkMozEmbed library, unstable version
ii  libglade2.0-cil               2.8.2-2                       CLI binding for the Glade libraries 2.6
ii  libgtk2.0-cil                 2.8.2-2                       CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.8
ii  mono                          1.1.13.6-4                    Mono CLI (.NET) runtime

I'm running Debian unstable.

Cheers, Netsnipe CVU ^(Talk) 05:12, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

You also need to install libmono1.0-cil (which I forgot to mention). --Chris (talk) 08:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

After installing libmono1.0-cil:

% ./vs.exe

(Gecko:20151): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:1739: instance `0x843d9f8' has no handler with id `474'

=================================================================
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
=================================================================

Stacktrace:

in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application:gtk_main () <0x4>
in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application:gtk_main () <0xffffffe7>
in Gtk.Application:Run () <0x7>
in VandalSniper.MainWindow:.ctor () <0xd00>
in VandalSniper.MainWindow:Main (string[]) <0x16>
in (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object:runtime_invoke_void_string[] (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0x4f2327>

Native stacktrace:

        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0(mono_handle_native_sigsegv+0xeb) [0xa7d8e92b]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0 [0xa7d4f70d]
        [0xffffe440]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa656a457]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa6545484]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5d7640e]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5db52e5]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5db6bfa]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d(_Z14CallGetServicePKcRK4nsIDPPv+0x40) [0xa5d73da0]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d(_ZNK33nsGetServiceByContractIDWithErrorclERK4nsIDPPv+0x30) [0xa5d73de0]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d(_ZN13nsCOMPtr_base36assign_from_gs_contractid_with_errorERK33nsGetServiceByContractIDWithErrorRK4nsID+0x25) [0xa5d738c5]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d(_Z29NS_CreateServicesFromCategoryPKcP11nsISupportsS0_+0x214) [0xa5daf884]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa62157ca]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa61f653e]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa622c159]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa6263e05]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa6266367]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa62664a6]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f6142a]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f64e7f]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f651b3]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f656d2]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f621c4]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f775c2]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f7a14a]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f792dc]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f7666b]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5f7abc4]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d(PL_HandleEvent+0x27) [0xa5dba9f7]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d(PL_ProcessPendingEvents+0x59) [0xa5dbad09]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa5dbcb8e]
        /usr/lib/libxul.so.0d [0xa65b64a5]
        /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xa7cd07ef]
        /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x16c) [0xa7ca7e2c]
        /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xa7cab176]
        /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1b7) [0xa7cab537]
        /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xc1) [0xa6e384e1]
        [0xa468f177]
        [0xa468f138]
        [0xa787c641]
        [0xa787a997]
        [0xa787a823]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0 [0xa7d6cb20]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0(mono_runtime_invoke+0x33) [0xa7dd1703]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0(mono_runtime_exec_main+0x6b) [0xa7dd469b]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0(mono_runtime_run_main+0x18c) [0xa7dd7c1c]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0(mono_jit_exec+0x8e) [0xa7d7fd6e]
        /usr/lib/libmono.so.0(mono_main+0x94f) [0xa7d8077f]
        /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd0) [0xa7b06eb0]
        /usr/bin/cli [0x8048471]
zsh: abort      ./vs.exe

-- Netsnipe CVU ^(Talk) 08:59, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Hmm odd, seems GTK+ is unhappy about something. Give me a bit to set up a sid chroot and I'll see what's up. --Chris (talk) 01:00, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I can confirm this. It seems to occur right as Gecko# tries to render anything, which makes me thing that libgecko2.0-cil isn't depending on something that it needs. --Chris (talk) 01:45, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

This has been reported to debian: [1] --Chris (talk) 03:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

In the meantime you can get the old version of libgecko2.0-cil by running the following as root:

apt-get install mozilla-browser   #libgecko2.0-cil-0.11-2 depends on this
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/03/21/debian/pool/main/g/gecko-sharp2/libgecko2.0-cil_0.11-2_all.deb
dpkg -i libgecko2.0-cil_0.11-2_all.deb
echo libgecko2.0-cil hold | dpkg --set-selections

This will install the old version and mark it as held so that a dist-upgrade won't pull the buggy one back in. This successfully fixed the segfault in the chroot I set up. --Chris (talk) 05:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I had the same error as Netsnipe's last post, and this got me going. Thanks for the troubleshooting help. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Windows

Are you trying to create a Windows version of VandalSniper? Currently, I'm using VandalProof. --Big top 20:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

As mentioned at WP:SNIPE the current release should work on Windows (with the exception of one needed DLL). The problem is that there are no Windows builds of GTK+ 2.8, which is required to run VandalSniper on Windows. --Chris (talk) 20:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Why couldn't it work with this port? fetofs ^Hello! 20:27, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

That actually might work. I'll test tonight and get back to you. --Chris (talk) 20:53, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

It may be my own fault, but I have been unsuccessful in getting VS to work with this port on Windows 2000. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I was able to solve one exception with this package, but only to run into another: the GRE (Gecko Rendering Engine) for Windows is too old. It seems we're just going to have to wait to use VS on Windows until the relevant APIs become stable. --Chris (talk) 22:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This might interest you

re multi-user coordination: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5434 Phr (talk) 11:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Linux (Knoppix) Installation Guide

With the approval of Crazycomputers, I have expanded a guide I made for setting up VandalSniper outside of Windows on my talk page and have moved it to a subpage in my user space. Hopefully, this will be a resource for people who want to give VandalSniper a try but aren't Linux experts. It will require you to first download and burn Knoppix to a CD, reboot into the new environment, and then connect to the Internet through it. Beyond that, the twelve steps I've listed are fairly straightforward.
The guide is at User:Omicronpersei8/VandalSniper installation. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 00:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Preferences

Hi, Chris -- first, I really like your new "intel" feature in revision 47. Looks like you've made things even more ridiculously fast.

My question is regarding a problem I've had since the beginning and should probably know better than to have to ask about: should my "preferences" and "vandalism log" menu options work? Are they incomplete, or do I just not have the needed Gnome libraries installed? -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:43, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

No, they have never worked. They're there mainly to remind me to write those features someday. =) --Chris (talk) 22:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. Keep up the good work. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and thank you thank you thank you for making rollbacked users automatically go on the hitlist. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name?

Might I suggest that "VandalSniper" might not be the best choice of name for this thing? Perhaps something that doesn't carry some rather unpleasant connotations in many places would be more appropriate? Kirill Lokshin 02:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe. I'm not inclined to change it though, unless someone complains about it. It's a tool that will be used by a minority of Wikipedians, primarily on the English Wikipedia. --Chris (talk) 02:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, it seems that subtlety is the wrong approach to take here. My apologies; I'll try to be more direct: a "sniper" tool which lets you add users to a "hitlist" is a very bad idea. Please change the nomenclature. Kirill Lokshin 02:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

If you think it's inappropriate, I'm welcome to other suggestions. Personally I don't see a problem with the current names as labels that represent certain program features. --Chris (talk) 02:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof/Mono? VandalProof#? It's not like there are trademark concerns with the original name. Kirill Lokshin 02:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

It's not that much like VandalProof. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 02:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I am trying to avoid calling it VandalProof, as it has become its own product, with a similar, but divergent featureset. --Chris (talk) 02:45, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm sure that you can think of plenty of other names that don't involve unsavory metaphors. Kirill Lokshin 02:52, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

In the absence of complaints, however, I do not think the effort to rename everything and reestablish the tool's identity is worth it. If there is community consensus to change it, I will of course comply, but "if it ain't broke..." --Chris (talk) 03:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

If it does one day, I suggest VandalScope. But then again my nickname does show some systematic bias. = P -- Netsnipe ^(Talk) 21:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

As a user of the tool (and Crazycomputers is welcome to correct me here), the name is really a very minor point. The use of "sniper" in the program seems to be analogous to "watchlist". When activity is detected, the following message appears: "The sniper has detected activity." That's pretty much it. "Hitlist" also seems relatively innocent to me. It seems like a logical nomenclature to use so as to not confuse the feature with a user's watchlist. I do understand your concern about the connotation of the name, though, but I don't really think there's a "kill vandals" metaphor going on here. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 02:26, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Quite honestly, I'm having trouble imagining how much more explicit the metaphor could be. Kirill Lokshin 02:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Although I dont use VS, I dont see a catastrophic issue here. Snipers, in fact, wait around until there is someone to shoot, yes, and is analogous to clicking a mouse button. Also, a hitlist is the same as VandalProofs black list. Nothing more. To take it as offensive or otherwise, in your words Kirill, as having unpleasant connotations, would be to assign qualities where there is a lack thereof. Regards. SynergeticMaggot 03:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Kirill here; the killing metaphor bothers me. Snipers kill people. A hitlist is a list of people to kill. Granted we are just reverting vandalism, but what's wrong with "VandalScope" (as Netsnipe suggested), and "blacklist"? --Fang Aili ^talk 14:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feature Request

Hi Chris, great work so far on VandalSniper! After using it for the past week, I've noticed something that slows me down when doing RC patrol. It would be useful, when selecting a page from Recent Changes, if the field focus was kept in the Recent Changes ListView, rather than being handed off to the browser. That would allow the user to use the down arrow to cycle through each page rather than requiring a repetitive mouse click. Hagerman^(talk) 16:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I will see if I can change this. However, the browser seems to request focus automatically when a page finishes loading, so I will have to figure out how to circumvent this. --Chris (talk) 02:45, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Great! While it's nothing critical, it would be a nice feature. Thanks for looking into it, Hagerman^(talk) 22:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalSniper 49 error

Hi Chris. Thanks for approving me for usage of your program. Unfortunately, I can't get it working yet. I am using Debian sid (unstable). At first, the main window opened before crashing. Now it doesn't get to show the window at all, and with the following output:

bash:~/apps/vandalsniper-49$ ./vs.exe

Unhandled Exception: Glade.HandlerNotFoundException: The handler for the event ButtonPressEvent should take
'(System.Object,Gtk.ButtonPressEventArgs)', but the signature of the provided handler ('on_ebxSniperNotify_button_press_event') is
'(System.Object,System.EventArgs)'

at SignalConnector.ConnectFunc (intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,int,intptr) <0x00339>
at (wrapper native-to-managed) SignalConnector.ConnectFunc (intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,int,intptr) <0x00040>
in (unmanaged) 0xb6c1898b
at (wrapper managed-to-native) SignalConnector.glade_xml_signal_autoconnect_full
(intptr,Glade.XML/SignalConnector/RawXMLConnectFunc,intptr) <0x00004>
at SignalConnector.Autoconnect () <0x00059>
at Glade.XML.Autoconnect (object) <0x00042>
at VandalSniper.MainWindow..ctor () <0x00354>
at VandalSniper.MainWindow.Main (string[]) <0x00016>

Thanks. # Ido50 (talk to me), at 12:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Are you using libgecko2.0-cil version 0.11-2? One of the most prevalent bugs so far has involved using version 0.11-3, which currently doesn't work. Also, of course, make sure you've got the other required libraries installed (as well as libnspr4 and mozilla-browser). -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 12:33, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

This isn't related to Gecko# at all, but it may be related to the newer version of mono that is in unstable. I will set up a chroot and see if I can patch this later today. Also please note that VS <= 49 will require libgecko2.0-cil 0.11-2, and VS > 49 will require 0.11-3. --Chris (talk) 20:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually yes, after reading the problem you described ("the main window opened before crashing") the newer Gecko# is exactly the problem. However, I haven't seen the exception you describe before. Did you upgrade mono in between trying to run VS? --Chris (talk) 20:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I think I did. There were some upgrades to mono the last few days, I'm pretty sure I made an upgrade in between running VS. If it's of any use for you, I'm using libgecko2.0-cil version 0.11-3 and mono 1.1.17.1-2. Thanks. # Ido50 (talk to me), at 21:55, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok. You need to downgrade to 0.11-2 for the time being. I'm going to experiment with mono now. --Chris (talk) 21:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I've confirmed and fixed this bug. However a release may take a day or so while I stomp out more compatibility bugs between VS and libxul. Note that, as mentioned above, you will in fact need the latest libgecko2.0-cil (not 0.11-2) for VS revisions > 49, so you may want to leave that package as it was. --Chris (talk) 16:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

OK thanks. I'll wait for the new release. # Ido50 (talk to me), at 10:28, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

I just did a system reinstall and had the exact same error, so it looks like this is far from an isolated thing that one person just happened to experience. I kept messing around with dpkg for a couple of hours and eventually it worked. I'll post my library versions in a bit, and maybe that will be a help. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 03:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Okay, that idea was way too difficult. Basically, I resolved the problem by installing all the standard libraries mentioned on the VandalSniper page plus reinstallation of stuff like libglib2.0-0 and libglib2.0-dev, and then I ran apt-get -f install when everything broke over and over. At first, I spent a while installing old packages from a system with a working installation, but I can't confirm whether that did any good or not. Either way, things are working now, except I seem to lose all connectivity about every ten minutes. That is, the IRC feed still comes in, but page loading appears to begin and never completes. (Please, don't bother troubleshooting this, it's probably an isolated incident.) -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 15:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting the same error. I already downgraded libgecko2-cli, so if someone can post specifics on how to fix, that would be great. - Stephanie Daugherty (Triona) - Talk - Comment - 20:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

stephanie@marian:~/Desktop/vandalsniper-49/vandalsniper-49$ ./vs Unhandled Exception: Glade.HandlerNotFoundException: The handler for the event ButtonPressEvent should take '(System.Object,Gtk.ButtonPressEventArgs)', but the signature of the provided handler ('on_ebxSniperNotify_button_press_event') is '(System.Object,System.EventArgs)' at SignalConnector.ConnectFunc (intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,int,intptr) <0x004a5> at (wrapper native-to-managed) SignalConnector.ConnectFunc (intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,int,intptr) <0x0008f> in (unmanaged) 0x3f86c0a0d5 at (wrapper managed-to-native) SignalConnector.glade_xml_signal_autoconnect_full (intptr,Glade.XML/SignalConnector/RawXMLConnectFunc,intptr) <0x0000e> at SignalConnector.Autoconnect () <0x0006f> at Glade.XML.Autoconnect (object) <0x00058> at VandalSniper.MainWindow..ctor () <0x003d5> at VandalSniper.MainWindow.Main (string[]) <0x00021>

Here are dependency versions for a working VS setup. I realize this may not help in the end but I will add to this later as I work on figuring out where the problem is. Hopefully I will be able to make a working guide for Debian setup in my userspace soon (I already have one for Knoppix there if anyone's interested).

$ dpkg -l mono libmono1.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgecko2.0-cil libnspr4 mozilla-browser
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name               Version            Description
+++-==================-==================-====================================================
ii  libgecko2.0-cil    0.11-2             CLI binding for the GtkMozEmbed library, unstable ve
ii  libglade2.0-cil    2.8.2-2            CLI binding for the Glade libraries 2.6
ii  libgtk2.0-cil      2.8.3-1            CLI binding for the GTK+ toolkit 2.8
ii  libmono1.0-cil     1.1.13.8-1         Mono libraries (1.0)
ii  libnspr4           1.7.13-0.3         Netscape Portable Runtime Library
ii  mono               1.1.13.8-1         Mono CLI (.NET) runtime
ii  mozilla-browser    1.7.13-0.3         The Mozilla Internet application suite - core and br

-- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 20:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

identical problem on ubuntu edgy (6.10) with libgecko downgraded. my dependency list looks like:

libgecko2.0-cil         0.11-2
libglade2.0-cil         2.10.0-0ubuntu2
libgtk2.0-cil           2.10.0-0ubuntu2
libmono1.0-cil          1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7
libnspr4                1.firefox2.0+0dfsg-0ubuntu3
mono                    1.1.17.1-1ubuntu7
mozilla-browser         1.7.13-0.2ubunt

yet i still get the Glade.HandlerNotFoundException: error. i really don't want to downgrade all of the packages you suggest. any suggestions? also... is there a version higher than 49 that works with libgecko 11-3?frymaster 17:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Try the library zip here: #VandalSniper_49_on_Debian_Sid -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 01:35, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does this run in Windows as well as Linux?

—$ΡЯΙNGεrαgђ (-¢|ε|Ŀ|T|♫-) 15:06, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Eventually it will. The only obstacle is the transition the libraries are going through. The Linux versions are built much more frequently than the Windows ones, meaning that by the time you get ahold of the latest Windows builds of all the libraries, VS isn't compatible with at least one of them anymore. As the library ABI stabalizes VS will be easier to run on Windows. --Chris (talk) 15:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Functionality questions

Hi there. I'm currently developing an OSX vandal monitor named WikiGuard. I wanted to grab the text from the actual changes to help determine whether an edit is vandalism, but #en.wikipedia on browne doesn't contain this information. I thought it wouldn't be possible.

But I see in the features list that VandalSniper can count the number of profanities, etc (P:n, S:n, L:n). Do you mind if I ask how you're obtaining this information? The source isn't available for VandalSniper, I gather, but any help in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. --BradBeattie 03:02, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I fetch each diff link and analyze it. Not the best for bandwidth, but it works. --Chris (talk) 09:25, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the info. I figured it was either something like that or some direct read-only access to the database. The latter would have been awesome and clearly the best solution. I guess it'd be possible to do an html-only fetch to help keep the bandwidth usage down. Anywho, thanks for the help. Cheers. --BradBeattie 10:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ubuntu

I use Ubuntu, yet am a complete moron when it comes to installing new software. I get this error running the command:

celestianpower$ sudo apt-get install mono libmono1.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgecko2.0-cil
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libmono1.0-cil

Help? Regards, —Cel es tianpower ^háblame 20:50, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Try apt-cache search mono|less to find it (less will slow down the torrent of results you may get); it must be under another name. I haven't really used Ubuntu, myself, but that should help. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 20:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, you're probably not finding the package because you don't have the proper sources set up in /etc/apt/sources.list. Make sure you've got "stable" and "testing" sources set up – this URL might help: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
Let me know if this still doesn't fix it. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

That URL didn't help :P. How do add the "stable" and "testing" sources? What are they? Sorry if I'm being stupid or demanding. Thanks! —Cel es tianpower ^háblame 21:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Not at all. Let me just give you what my config says:

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

That is the content of my /etc/apt/sources.list (at least, for the stable and testing sources). Try using that; I think those are the only sources you need (i.e. I don't think you need the "unstable" source). -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 21:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

And don't forget to run apt-get update after these changes before retrying the install. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:02, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

OK. I added that to my sources.list and saved. The command produced the same error. What's wrong now? :P. —Cel es tianpower ^háblame 22:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

No, I tell a lie. This is the error:

celestianpower$ sudo apt-get install mono libmono1.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgecko2.0-cil
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing effectv (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

:). —Cel es tianpower ^háblame 22:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, that's an error that comes from having a lot of source definitions. Instead of adding what I listed above to your apt.conf, you may want to just leave it as it was and add the source lines you need, which is probably just the testing one. Otherwise, you can just shut APT up by putting the following in /etc/apt.conf:

APT::Cache-Limit 99999999;

-- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:UW User warning harmonisation

Hi, I've already spoken to CrazyC about this, so this is to anyone else using VS who may look here. Some of you may be aware that a few of us have started a program to harmonise all user page templates and messages. We have listed a number of ideas that we are looking at and are very keen to have your involvement, if only to discuss possible impacts with your software. Currently we are just trying to get ideas, but we will start implementing ideas early next week. If you could just take 5 mins to look through the main project page, the ideas page and it's talk page, and let us know your thoughts, that would be greatly appreciated. Regards Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 14:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting information

Hey, I think VandalSniper uses the IRC feed. I recently came across http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php . I'm not sure how they might be helpful yet, but the wheels are spinning. Just thought I'd let you know that resource exists, should you want to make use of it. :) --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 17:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd seen these a while back and I think I concluded that there's not much there I can use. Thanks for the info though. --Chris (talk) 08:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Feature request

Regarding the Intelligent diff clues, I think you should add one more feature for dealing with vandalbots and repeat vandals. This would check the user talk page history for any vandalism warnings V:n, check how long ago the user made their first edit, or if this is their first edit, and anything under a week should display F:n, and check how many edits they have made total, anything under 5 should display E:n. If you implement the coordinated monitoring feature, then any edit by someone with previous vandalism warnings should show up on that as well. This would make it harder to add the sneaky vandalism and things like "So and so is hot". -NorsemanII 07:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Interesting ideas. I will make note of them, but note that if I implement all of these then I will need to hit three pages instead of one per diff. This will not be great for bandwidth. --Chris (talk) 08:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mac OS X

So I, also, am a complete moron when it comes to installing software on my mac. I running a Mac PowerBook G4 with OS X 10.3.9. I have downloaded gtk-sharp-1.9.3.tar.gz. I unpacked it and ran the configure file in terminal. I get this:

Last login: Thu Nov 2 10:01:34 on ttyp1
/Users/David/Desktop/gtk-sharp-1.9.3/configure; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
David-Warburtons-Computer:~ David$ /Users/David/Desktop/gtk-sharp-1.9.3/configure; exit
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
logout
[Process completed]

Once that finishes 'make' comes up with some error and is not able to complete.
Any thoughts? Mkdw 18:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Have you tried fink? --Chris (talk) 15:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I installed fink. I still get the same message when I try to run the configure file. Mkdw ^talk 05:48, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Chris was recommending fink because it would mean binary installs without compiling. In that case, you wouldn't have to use configure. Anyway, that looks like a glibc-related error. Try updating gcc and glibc. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 20:07, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VS runtime bug

I get the following bug when I try to run VS. For reference I have gtksharp-2.10, and not 2.8 as is referenced on the page, which is highly likely to be the problem, but I am not sure. It kind of appears that the API has changed between the two versions.

mono vs.exe Unhandled Exception: Glade.HandlerNotFoundException: The handler for the event ButtonPressEvent should take '(System.Object,Gtk.ButtonPressEventArgs)', but the signature of the provided handler ('on_ebxSniperNotify_button_press_event') is '(System.Object,System.EventArgs)' at SignalConnector.ConnectFunc (intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,int,intptr) <0x00339> at (wrapper native-to-managed) SignalConnector.ConnectFunc (intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,intptr,int,intptr) <0x0004b> in (unmanaged) 0xb6a4f695 at (wrapper managed-to-native) SignalConnector.glade_xml_signal_autoconnect_full (intptr,Glade.XML/SignalConnector/RawXMLConnectFunc,intptr) <0x00004> at SignalConnector.Autoconnect () <0x00059> at Glade.XML.Autoconnect (object) <0x00042> at VandalSniper.MainWindow..ctor () <0x00354> at VandalSniper.MainWindow.Main (string[]) <0x00016>

Ansell 21:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

This is a known bug and is fixed in svn. --Chris (talk) 06:40, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response. Can't wait for the next version to come out so I can try the tool out! Ansell 11:15, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I've encountered and fixed this error a couple times now, but I never know how I do it. Yes, I know I'm a terrible geek. Seriously though, if I ever find out what it was, other than dumb luck and a lot of apt-get -f installs, I'll post it here. I tried for a while yesterday but failed at fixing this bug on my 64-bit machine and a Sid chroot on it. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 03:34, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

I use Gentoo Linux, and hence I would possibly not have luck trying apt-get ;-)... I could downgrade to gtksharp-2.8 and see if that fixes the bug, but I don't know when I will get around to it as I am doing some glade/gtk .NET development myself and I don't really want to muck around with the libraries while I am doing that at the same time. Ansell 03:54, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ubuntu Edgy

i am having same error of "VandalSniper 49 error" comment please advise

Jhabib 10:31, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ubuntu Dapper

Installed everything necessary, but...

sonicchao@sonicchao-laptop:~/Desktop$ ./vs.exe

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Gecko.WebControl --->

System.DllNotFoundException: /usr/lib/firefox/libgtkembedmoz.so

in (wrapper managed-to-native) Gecko.WebControl:gtk_moz_embed_get_type ()
in <0x00014> Gecko.WebControl:get_GType ()
in <0x00026> GtkSharp.GeckoSharp.ObjectManager:Initialize ()
in <0x00007> Gecko.WebControl:.cctor ()--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

in <0x00000> <unknown method>
in <0x00029> VandalSniper.MainWindow:newBrowser (System.String url)
in <0x00bfc> VandalSniper.MainWindow:.ctor ()
in <0x00016> VandalSniper.MainWindow:Main (System.String[] args)

--SonicChao 20:11, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Did you also install mozilla-browser and libnspr4? -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 18:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I just did, but still get the same message. --SonicChao 20:17, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

This sounds like your version of gtkmozembed is incompatible with VS. Whether it's too new or old I don't know. --Chris (talk) 02:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalSniper 49 on Debian Sid

It has become apparent that no one is having much luck getting VS 49 up and going, and I think I have narrowed the problem down to a too-recent version of mono. I have created a bzip (filesize: 4.1 MB) containing the needed libraries that you should downgrade to in order to get VS working.

This bzip contains files for libgecko2.0-cil version 0.11-2 and mono version 1.1.13.8-1.

mono-common_1.1.13.8-1_i386.deb
mono-jit_1.1.13.8-1_i386.deb
libmono-corlib1.0-cil_1.1.13.8-1_all.deb
libmono0_1.1.13.8-1_i386.deb
libgecko2.0-cil_0.11-2_all.deb
libmono-dev_1.1.13.8-1_i386.deb
libmono1.0-cil_1.1.13.8-1_all.deb
mono_1.1.13.8-1_i386.deb
mono-runtime_1.1.13.8-1_i386.deb
mono-gac_1.1.13.8-1_all.deb

This has worked for me on two separate machines so far, one being an i386 platform running Sid and the other being an i386 Sid chroot on an amd64 platform. Below is a guide for Debian users. I am only quite sure it will work, so please post below if it doesn't and I will try to find out what I've done wrong and correct it. It would also be very helpful to have some feedback if these instructions do work.

It is assumed that you are running the most recent version of Debian on the i386 architecture with testing or unstable ("Sid") sources, and that it has not been long since your last apt-get update.

[edit] Necessary terminal commands, step-by-step

Please make sure you're in a writable directory such as $HOME by typing: cd
su -c 'apt-get install mono libmono1.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgecko2.0-cil libnspr4 mozilla-browser'
wget http://deadheroes.org/vs49-libs.tar.bz2
tar xjf vs49-libs.tar.bz2
su -c 'dpkg -i vs49-libs/*.deb'
(This may ask for the root password.)

[edit] From WP:SNIPE: Getting and running VandalSniper 49

(Make sure you're in X before trying to run vs.exe.)

wget http://www.chrishowie.com/files/vandalsniper-49.tar.bz2
tar xjf vandalsniper-49.tar.bz2
cd vandalsniper-49
mono ./vs.exe &

[edit] For users of other Linux distributions

While the project page makes it pretty clear that users on distributions other than Debian are somewhat "on your own", if you are installing from source or RPM, you should be alright getting the most recent versions of all dependencies except libgecko2.0-cil and the mono suite. These problematic dependencies are available as debs in the bzip linked above, and you may be able to convert them to RPM or Slackware tgz using alien (Alien homepage, rpmfind.net query).

-- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 07:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comments or problems

Receive the following error when running under Ubuntu Dapper:

todd@ubuntu:~/vandalsniper-49$ ./vs.exe

** ERROR **: file domain.c: line 663 (mono_init_internal): assertion failed: (mono_defaults.monotype_class != 0)
aborting...
Aborted

Initially I was receiving errors regarding mscorlib.dll, but was able to find a copy of this file and put it in. Don't seem able to fix this one though. Seraphimblade 10:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

This posting suggests it's related to a bad version of that new mscorlib.dll. You should probably remove that dll and reinstall libmono-corlib1.0-cil and libmono-corlib2.0-cil from my bzip; then we can go back to your first problem. Could you please post the mscorlib.dll error? -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 13:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

The previous error (which was correct) was that mscorlib.dll was missing entirely. I'll try the reinstalls you suggest. Seraphimblade 13:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Possibly a path problem. Give the following a try after the reinstallation:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mono:/usr/lib/mono/1.0:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} mono vs.exe
LD_LIBRARY_PATH='' mono vs.exe

Let me know how that goes.

After running MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono vs.exe, it looks like libmono-corlib2.0-cil isn't a needed dependency after all, so I've removed it from the online bzip. I doubt it's contributing to your problems, but you might also try uninstalling it. -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 14:09, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Virtual Machine

I have tried installing VandalSniper but like a lot of people have had difficulties and in the end I have had to admit defeat. To be honest my failure to install reflects that I know next to nothing about Linux.

However, one thing that occured to me is that it would be possible for somebody to create a Virtual Machine (preferably for VMWare player, as that is what I have installed!). If somebody could do this once then the Virtual Machine could be shared between everybody. This would make VandalSniper much more accessible to people. --Mark S (talk) 11:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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