[Slackbuilds-users] Catfish not working

[David Woodfall]

>Hi,
>
>I just built Catfish from SBo, along with the handful of dependencies 
>(pexpect, pyxdg, pygobject3). I'm running it in the Xfce desktop 
>environment.
>
>The application doesn't start. When I invoke 'catfish' in a graphical 
>terminal, I get a bunch of error messages. Here's the beginning:
>
>(catfish.py:10978): 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 210, 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
>
>Any idea what's wrong here?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Niki

Hi Niki,

You say that that's the start of the error? Could you show us the full
error? Maybe pastebin it, if it's too large for the mailing list?

Thanks,

Dave

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