Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 433786
pychess fails to start (python traceback)
Last modified: 2014-03-31 19:44:40 EDT
Attemting to start pychess from the terminal results in python traceback. It complains about a missing icon. Perhaps a missing dependecy? Note that I'm using KDE and have only a limited subset of gnome/GTK+ packages installed. [dkovalsk@kovinek ~]$ rpm -q pychess pychess-0.8-0.1.beta2.fc8 [dkovalsk@kovinek ~]$ pychess Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pychess", line 37, in <module> import pychess.Main File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 14, in <module> from pychess.Players.Human import Human File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Players/Human.py", line 7, in <module> from pychess.widgets.gamewidget import cur_gmwidg File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/widgets/gamewidget.py", line 69, in <module> light_on = icons.load_icon("weather-clear", 16, ICON_LOOKUP_USE_BUILTIN) gobject.GError: Icon 'weather-clear' not present in theme
This icon is provided by, amongst others, the gnome-icon-theme package. Please try yum install gnome-icon-theme and see if this solves your problem.
Hi Sindre, I already have the gnome-icon-theme package installed: [root@kovinek ~]# yum install gnome-icon-theme Loading "changelog" plugin local 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00 Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Package gnome-icon-theme - 2.20.0-2.fc8.noarch is already installed. Nothing to do [root@kovinek ~]#
Is this problem still present when using 0.8 final: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=39749
Yup, still present. [dkovalsk@kovinek ~]$ rpm -q pychess pychess-0.8-1.fc8 [dkovalsk@kovinek ~]$ pychess 25019: old priority 0, new priority 15 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pychess", line 40, in <module> import pychess.Main File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 17, in <module> from pychess.Players.Human import Human File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/Players/Human.py", line 8, in < module> from pychess.widgets.gamewidget import cur_gmwidg File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pychess/widgets/gamewidget.py", line 69 , in <module> light_on = icons.load_icon("weather-clear", 16, ICON_LOOKUP_USE_BUILTIN) gobject.GError: Icon 'weather-clear' not present in theme
So we definitely need to Require: gnome-icon-theme. The bizarre question is, it *should* contain stock_3d-light-{on,off}, and so should not even get to trying to load weather-clear. Then again, if load_icon fails to find the first two, it would not find weather-clear anyway, as they are in the same package. Perhaps it's just because no GTK icon theme is set? BTW, Sindre, 0.8 final does not work on Rawhide. Not sure what's wrong.
Hmm, the fix is sooo simple - it's fedora-icon-theme in Requires :-) Please build a new package with fedora-icon-theme in Requires. Thanks!
fedora-icon-theme does not even require gnome-icon-theme, which actually contains the weather-clear icon. The actual solution is to make sure that /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon is running before pychess is executed. Not sure what the proper fix is. Does KDE have a global autostart directory? I currently just symlink gnome-settings-daemon to ~/.kde/Autostart/ Please retest with gnome-settings-daemon running. On my Rawhide/KDE system I can confirm that with gnome-settings-daemon, pychess works; kill the daemon and it breaks. Sindre, we should probably hold off an update (that requires gnome-icon-theme) until we decide on how to fix the gnome-settings-daemon issue. Easiest short-term fix is to Require: gnome-settings-daemon and to have a wrapper script that fires off gnome-settings-daemon if it is not already running?
Agreed! Holding the current update. I'll write a wrapper that ensures the gnome-settings-daemon is running befora launching pychess and push a new update. Long-term we'll have to convince upstream to solve this issue the right way.
I'm testing a planned update to 0.8.2. Had to patch out a lot of stock_ icons, that are not in gnome-icon-theme (it's in echo-icon-theme, and not sure what other themes. Considering even Fedora does not install Echo by default, we probably don't want to go there). I wrote the wrapper we planned to have as well. Koji scratch for F-9 (I'm testing on Rawhide, where it works; will issue a F-9 update if nobody reports a breakage in the next few days)
Michel, thanks for all the work! Can you post a link to the latest available build so I can test?
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Testing on Fedora 10, pychess starts fine without any issues. Feel free to close this :) /David