[Slackbuilds-users] Catfish building but not running (revisited)

[Niki Kovacs]

Hi,

Some time ago earlier this year, I had some trouble with Catfish 1.2.2, 
which would build but not run. I never found the solution and ended up 
using an older version, which ran nicely.

I have a new dedicated build machine, and a few days ago, I started from 
a clean install. It's not a 100% "full" install, but reasonably full for 
an Xfce-based desktop. I've used this set of tagfiles for the installation:

http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/desktop-14.1-32bit/tagfiles/

Then I built and installed the following packages on this machine:

http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/desktop-14.1-source/

I built and installed Catfish's three explicit dependencies, in the 
following order:

1. pexpect
2. pyxdg
3. pygobject

After that, I built and installed Catfish.

The application would not start, and when I run 'catfish' from Xfce's 
terminal, I get the following error:

[kikinovak at buildbox:~] $ catfish

(catfish.py:23984): Gtk-WARNING **: Unknown property: 
GtkInfoBar.show-close-button
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 73, 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 211, in 
finish_initializing
     if SudoDialog.check_dependencies(['locate', 'updatedb']):
   File "/usr/share/catfish/catfish_lib/SudoDialog.py", line 54, in 
check_dependencies
     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 
1946, in search
     match = s.search(buffer, searchstart)
RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine

Which leaves me clueless.

Any idea what's wrong here? Some missing package? Some weird conflict? I 
admit I'm clueless, and I'm grateful if you have any suggestions.

Cheers,

Niki
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