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

[Aaditya Bagga]

On 04/13/2015 12:58 PM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
 > 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.

Hi,

Catfish runs here too. I suspect you maybe missing some package from a 
full Slackware install, judging by the output:

 > finish_initializing if SudoDialog.check_dependencies(['locate',
 > 'updatedb']): File "/usr/share/catfish/catfish_lib/SudoDialog.py",

Aaditya