Python errors when running alacarte...

earthpig · 2009-09-17 02:37:33

hi. system is up to date.

python version:

[chris: ~]$ python -V
Python 2.6.2

when i run alacarte, it starts fine.

when i try to view the properties of any item or do pretty much anything, it does nothing and i get this error:

[chris: ~]$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 375, in on_edit_properties_activate
    process = subprocess.Popen(['gnome-desktop-item-edit', file_path], env=os.environ)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1092, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[chris: ~]$

does anyone have any suggestions?

sHyLoCk · 2009-09-17 02:41:23

What does this say:

$ which python

earthpig · 2009-09-17 02:42:58

[chris: ~]$ which python
/usr/bin/python

earthpig · 2009-09-17 17:23:09

bump

Mr.Elendig · 2009-09-17 18:15:21

Do you have a gnome-desktop-item-edit command on your system?
Edit: should be provided by gnome-panel

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-09-17 18:15:51)

sHyLoCk · 2009-09-17 18:19:08

Try reinstalling python. Do a pacman -Syu as well

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2009-09-17 18:19:53)

Mr.Elendig · 2009-09-17 18:26:22

Reinstalling python will achive nothing in this case.
subprocess.Popen is returning "file not found" because it can't find the command given.

example:

 
>>> subprocess.Popen(['ls'])
<subprocess.Popen object at 0x1ba7c10>
>>>
>>> subprocess.Popen(['thiscommanddontexist'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1092, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2009-09-17 18:27:23)

earthpig · 2009-09-17 19:55:50

Mr.Elendig wrote:

Do you have a gnome-desktop-item-edit command on your system?
Edit: should be provided by gnome-panel

i don't have gnome-panel installed. gnome-panel and lxpanel are both freedesktop.org compliant, alacarte works with it... well, it did for a while. im not sure what i did to break it. neither python nor alacarte have been updated by -Syu lately.

updated system again, and reinstalled python:

...
warning: python-2.6.2-5 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): python-2.6.2-5  

Total Download Size:    15.24 MB
Total Installed Size:   63.03 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
...

did same with alacarte:

...
warning: alacarte-0.12.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): alacarte-0.12.1-1  

Total Download Size:    0.12 MB
Total Installed Size:   1.34 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
...

problem remains.

linkmaster03 · 2009-09-17 22:00:36

You need to install gnome-panel. Alacarte is trying to execute the command "gnome-desktop-item-edit" in a shell, and it is throwing the exception because it cannot find "gnome-desktop-item-edit".

FrozenFox · 2009-09-17 22:03:47

Awesome, ty. I was actually going to try to figure out what dependency was missing myself at some point, as it worked when I had the gnome and gnome-extra groups installed, but not when I removed most of it for E17.

Perhaps a missing dependency bug should be filed? If nobody else is going to, I will .

EDIT: I posted a bug report.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16251

Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-09-18 21:51:28)

earthpig · 2009-09-18 20:28:19

thanks! adding gnome-panel worked.

alacarte worked as well as it did before: i can use it to add menu items, but not remove them.

edit: i was gong to complain about the 12mb long list of dependencies that pacman brought with gnome-panel... but then i just checked on my ubuntu computer, and they have 47mb of stuff.

so, i will count my blessings, be grateful to the folks that make Arch happen, and wait for LXDE to release its own optional GUI menu editor

and, if LXDE follows its own pattern of small/smart/modular/standards-compliant, the LXDE menu editor will probably serve as a drop-in replacement for both xfce and gnome...

Last edited by earthpig (2009-09-18 20:33:14)

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