[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

Hmm, I looked at the tagfiles and slocate seems to be there, so the 
error may have something to do with permissions via sudo..