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Breigner01

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Registered: 2023-01-03

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Terminator failling to launch

So, it's now been a while that I have been experiencing this and hopped at first that it was just something that would get patched in a couple days but this is looking like this problem is specific to me.

Basically I use terminator and when I want to launch it, I get greeted with the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 48, in <module>
    import terminatorlib.optionparse
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/terminatorlib/optionparse.py", line 22, in <module>
    from terminatorlib.terminator import Terminator
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/terminatorlib/terminator.py", line 12, in <module>
    from . import borg
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/terminatorlib/borg.py", line 11, in <module>
    from .util import dbg
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/terminatorlib/util.py", line 21, in <module>
    import cairo
  File "/home/breigner01/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ._cairo import *  # noqa: F401,F403
ImportError: /home/breigner01/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/_cairo.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: cairo_tee_surface_index

I've tried reporting the bug to multiple places, thinking it could come from here but it appears I was wrong.

Hopping someone has an idea of what's wrong on my system.

Last edited by Breigner01 (2023-03-28 22:57:21)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] Terminator failling to launch

You have a locally installed python cairo package.  Why?  Get rid of that.

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Breigner01

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Registered: 2023-01-03

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Terminator failling to launch

I honestly don't even know how this got here but it didn't even hit me that the logs were from a user python dependency and not a system python dependency.

Anyways thank you for pointing it out, it now works.
I feel dumb rn