terminator fails to run

BCarey · 03-05-2014, 11:48 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to get terminator to run on a slackware64 13.37 multi-lib system. Using sbopkg terminator compiles fine, but when I try to run it I get:

Code:

ImportError: could not import bonobo.ui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 76, in <module>
    TERMINATOR = Terminator()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py", line 44, in __init__
    self.prepare_attributes()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py", line 67, in prepare_attributes
    self.attempt_gnome_client()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py", line 89, in attempt_gnome_client
    self.gnome_client.connect_to_session_manager()
AttributeError: '__main__.GnomeClient' object has no attribute 'connect_to_session_manager'

I have reinstalled python, reinstalled libgnome, not sure what to do next.

Thanks for any help or ideas,

Brian

notKlaatu · 03-05-2014, 11:57 AM

did you re install libbonobo and the other deps for libgnome?

BCarey · 03-05-2014, 12:16 PM

Yes I did.

(I don't really understand why libgnome should be involved at all. slackbuilds.org does not list it (or anything else, for that matter) has a requirement for building. I had just read somewhere that it might work.)

Brian

notKlaatu · 03-05-2014, 02:22 PM

I'm surprised the SlackBuild does not list libgnome as a dep. Looking through the source code of terminator, it looks like you need at least pygtk and gobject. I'm not sitting in front of my slackware box at this moment, but I'm pretty sure at least gobject or pygobject is not included by default.

To me this looks like one of "those" packages, like Miro and OpenShot and other apps that depend heavily upon Python+GTK. Have you installed
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.../gnome-python/

as well?

Habitual · 03-05-2014, 03:59 PM

Code:

ll /var/log/packages/ | grep -E "pygtk|gob|terminator"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12K Feb 01 2014  1:09 PM gobject-introspection-1.32.1-x86_64-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.9K Feb 01 2014  1:09 PM pygobject-2.28.6-x86_64-2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35K Feb 01 2014  1:09 PM pygtk-2.24.0-x86_64-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  18K Feb 03 2014  7:27 AM terminator-0.97-x86_64-1_SBo

is what I have installed here.

BCarey · 03-05-2014, 04:23 PM

@notKlaatu - Yes, I have gnome-python installed.

@Habitual - I have a full install which includes pygtk and pygobject. gobject-introspection is not in 13.37.

Brian

Habitual · 03-06-2014, 08:00 AM

I don't think I needed that for the install. It was a rather loose search of installed pygtk|gob packages.

terminator (0.96) I take it?

willysr · 03-06-2014, 08:06 AM

Did you use SlackBuild script for 14.1 and use it on 13.37?

Habitual · 03-06-2014, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

Did you use SlackBuild script for 14.1 and use it on 13.37?

Been there, trashed that.

BCarey · 03-07-2014, 05:01 PM

Yes, it is terminator 0.96. I used sbopkg, so I assume it uses the 13.37 script.

Brian

notKlaatu · 03-09-2014, 03:26 PM

From the error message, it looks like Python is having trouble loading bonobo.ui

I would do an `installpkg --reinstall --install-new` on libbonobo, libbonoboui, and anything else that uses it, to make sure those installs really installed and that the correct versions got installed in the first place. I would also check your sbopkg conf to make sure it is using the correct versions.

BCarey · 03-12-2014, 02:07 PM

I did reinstall these packages and have verified that sbopkg is pointing to the right mirror.

Brian