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

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

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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.

Can you try to add this patch?

- -- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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