[SOLVED] Installed guefi, it fails to run, 'No module named gi' load error.

camorri · 05-24-2022, 09:26 AM

I'm a compelte noob when it comes to anything python.

I wanted to try and use efibootmgr with a gui, and found the guefi package on SBo. Installed without any problems.

For the record, this is Slackware 15.0 64 bit fully updated.

I checked the pre-req's and I seem to have the requirements, as stated on the github page. They are:

Code:

A GNU/Linux PC running a UEFI firmware
Python >= 3.9
GTK+3 >= 3.24.x
efibootmgr 17

I did some duckduckgoing, and come across lots of things to try, so many I don't know where to start. The advise seems to vary from distro to distro.

Could some one give me some advice on what makes sense on Python on Slackware 15.0 please? I don't want to just try anything I find that amy have worked on another distro.

This is the output I get on Slackware.

Code:

root@duelie:~# guefi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/guefi", line 6, in <module>
    import gi
ImportError: No module named gi

Thanks in advance.

pghvlaans · 05-24-2022, 09:55 AM

It looks like version 0.1.3 is incompatible, but 0.2.0 just came out a few days ago, and it seems to work.

The upgraded package is already in the SBo ready queue, but if you don't want to wait, you could also sed all the 0.1.3 to 0.2.0, download the tarball and install that way.

camorri · 05-24-2022, 10:30 AM

Thank-you for your quick response. I will have to wait for 0.2.0 to appear on SBo, I have no idea on how to 'sed 0.1.3 to 0.2.0'.

pghvlaans · 05-24-2022, 10:33 AM

Go to the dedicated directory with the SlackBuild's files, and run

Code:

sed -i 's|0.1.3|0.2.0|g' *

camorri · 05-24-2022, 01:32 PM

Thank-you for your input. The sed command worked. I was able to build version 0.2.0 and have upgraded the installed package.

So, my reported problem is solved.

Now, for more fun, I have 3 HD's in my system. If I run guefi on sda, it works. If I run it on my nvme drive, it starts up, and reports my efi partition is not mounted, and aborts. I will have to open another thread, and see if there is some way to run this gui front end on a multi drive system.

I did look at the help for efibootmgr, and saw the default is sda. I suspect there needs to be a way to tell guefi on start up to run on another disk.