Description of problem: I just cliked on Catfish File search from Application Menu, Accessories. Version-Release number of selected component: catfish-1.0.3-1.fc20.1 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.2.3 cmdline: python2 /usr/share/catfish/bin/catfish.py dso_list: python-pexpect-3.1-1.fc20.noarch executable: /usr/share/catfish/bin/catfish.py kernel: 3.16.2-200.fc20.i686+PAE runlevel: N 5 type: Python uid: 1000 Truncated backtrace: __init__.py:1953:search:RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/catfish/bin/catfish.py", line 44, in <module> catfish.main() File "/usr/share/catfish/catfish/__init__.py", line 74, in main window = CatfishWindow.CatfishWindow() File "/usr/share/catfish/catfish_lib/Window.py", line 49, in __new__ new_object.finish_initializing(builder) File "/usr/share/catfish/catfish/CatfishWindow.py", line 209, in finish_initializing if SudoDialog.check_dependencies(['updatedb']): File "/usr/share/catfish/catfish_lib/SudoDialog.py", line 44, in check_dependencies if child.expect([".*ssword.*", "Sorry", pexpect.EOF, pexpect.TIMEOUT]) == 3: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1418, in expect timeout, searchwindowsize) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1433, in expect_list timeout, searchwindowsize) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1490, in expect_loop index = searcher.search(incoming, freshlen, searchwindowsize) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pexpect/__init__.py", line 1953, in search match = s.search(buffer, searchstart) RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine Local variables in innermost frame: index: 0 freshlen: 0 buffer: '' self: <pexpect.searcher_re object at 0xa2b712c> searchstart: 0 first_match: None s: <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x9ec26b0> searchwindowsize: None
Created attachment 938123 [details] File: backtrace
Created attachment 938124 [details] File: environ
Looks like pexpect has this issue. Once switching to pexpect.
... and actually this looks like python bug. When I apply https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-rev/e5e425fd1e4f to python-2.7.5-13.fc20, catfish (on i686) launches with no problem (However now test suite seems to fail on koji with the patch above applied...) Switching to python. ref: http://bugs.python.org/issue17998
For people seeing this catfish issue on i686, please try python scratch package on: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/mtasaka/task_7725670/
Installing both the python and python-libs packages featured in Comment 5 got Catfish working again for me. Nothing being broadcast through Terminal (which is good). [kernel 3.16.4-200.fc20.i686]
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
The solution provided in comment #5 does not exist any more. Is there an ability to know where to find it ? yhx
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