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PootisBird

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Registered: 2014-04-16

Posts: 125

[Solved] Guake fails randomly

Since about a week I guake randomly refuses to work.

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guake/guake_app.py:1480: GtkWarning: gtk_box_pack: assertion 'child->parent == NULL' failed
  self.mainframe.pack_start(self.mainframe, expand=True, fill=True, padding=0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guake/main.py", line 235, in <module>
    exec_main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guake/main.py", line 231, in exec_main
    if not main():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guake/main.py", line 147, in main
    instance = Guake()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guake/guake_app.py", line 287, in __init__
    self.hotkeys = guake.globalhotkeys.GlobalHotkey()
SystemError: NULL result without error in PyObject_Call

It happens on more than one Arch system. Any ideas ? Tilda is not good enough of a replacement.

Last edited by PootisBird (2015-06-05 11:29:23)

IlikePepsi

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Registered: 2013-10-29

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

Same issue here. I tried to dive into this and took a look at the python package in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/guake. In the guake_app.py is an import statement

import guake.globalhotkeys

which refers to the library globalhotkeys.so i guess. So I guess the statement

self.hotkeys = guake.globalhotkeys.GlobalHotkey()

calls some library function that fails somehow. But right now I don't have any idea how to debug such issue. Perhaps anybody else can help. Thx

glycerine102

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Registered: 2014-07-23

Posts: 1

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

I just updated Cinnamon and I have the same problem with Guake.  I tried changing up my hotkey and looking to see if it was in use by cinnamon.

OldNuc

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Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

Possible conflict with FireFox hot key as it also uses F12.

PootisBird

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Registered: 2014-04-16

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

Possible conflict with FireFox hot key as it also uses F12.

It was overriding firefox ever since I remember

Edit. I have downgraded python2 from 2.7.10-1 to  2.7.8-2 and it seems to work fine.

Last edited by PootisBird (2015-06-04 15:20:21)

OldNuc

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Registered: 2013-09-02

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

I installed Menu Wizard Extension in FF and unchecked the F-12 hot key and Guake has yet to fail today.

PootisBird

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Registered: 2014-04-16

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

I installed Menu Wizard Extension in FF and unchecked the F-12 hot key and Guake has yet to fail today.

I've tried it but only python2 downgrade works.

JoKoT3

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Registered: 2013-04-23

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

downgrading to python2-2.7.9-1 works for me

nariox

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Registered: 2014-03-19

Posts: 128

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

There's a new version of guake out 0.7.2. While it's not in the official repos, you can check here for a PKGBUILD here: https://github.com/Guake/guake/issues/558

john29

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Registered: 2014-11-27

Posts: 29

Re: [Solved] Guake fails randomly

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true