Missing dependencies for Thunderbird Qubes Attachments?

[andrewdavidwong]

Qubes OS version (e.g., R3.1):

R3.1

Affected TemplateVMs (e.g., fedora-23, if applicable):

fedora-23-minimal

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My email VMs are based on a modified clone of fedora-23-minimal with Thunderbird and a few other packages installed. Recently, I've noticed that certain Qubes Attachments functions, such as "send all [attachments] to VM" have stopped working in these VMs. (Clicking the button does nothing.) Basing the VM on fedora-23 instead causes it to work, so I'm guessing that there's some kind of missing dependency.

[marmarek]

Start Thunderbird from xterm and check what error will you get there.

[marmarek]

Start Thunderbird from xterm and check what error will you get there.

[andrewdavidwong]

Here's the traceback when clicking the "send all to VM" button:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qvm-mru-entry", line 24, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: No module named cairo

[andrewdavidwong]

Here's the traceback when clicking the "send all to VM" button:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qvm-mru-entry", line 24, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: No module named cairo

[marmarek]

It looks like pycairo is excluded from minimal template (even though it is dependency of pygtk2 which is installed). Try installing pycairo package and see how much data will it put into the minimal template. If not much, probably worth including.

[marmarek]

It looks like pycairo is excluded from minimal template (even though it is dependency of pygtk2 which is installed). Try installing pycairo package and see how much data will it put into the minimal template. If not much, probably worth including.

[andrewdavidwong]

Not bad at all, and it fixes the issue:

bash-4.3# dnf install pycairo
Last metadata expiration check: 1:34:07 ago on Wed Jun 15 00:46:12 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package          Arch            Version                 Repository       Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 pycairo          x86_64          1.10.0-2.fc23           fedora          515 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 515 k
Installed size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

[andrewdavidwong]

Not bad at all, and it fixes the issue:

bash-4.3# dnf install pycairo
Last metadata expiration check: 1:34:07 ago on Wed Jun 15 00:46:12 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package          Arch            Version                 Repository       Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 pycairo          x86_64          1.10.0-2.fc23           fedora          515 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package

Total download size: 515 k
Installed size: 1.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

[adrelanos]

Andrew David Wong:

Here's the traceback when clicking the "send all to VM" button:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qvm-mru-entry", line 24, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: No module named cairo

Wild guess. Try this.

sudo apt-get install python-cairo

Or.

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2

[adrelanos]

Andrew David Wong:

Here's the traceback when clicking the "send all to VM" button:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qvm-mru-entry", line 24, in <module>
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: No module named cairo

Wild guess. Try this.

sudo apt-get install python-cairo

Or.

sudo apt-get install python-gtk2

[unman]

@marmarek Is there any reason why you haven't merged your commits to the Qubes repo? It seems odd this issue is still open, when the solution is there.

[unman]

@marmarek Is there any reason why you haven't merged your commits to the Qubes repo? It seems odd this issue is still open, when the solution is there.

[marmarek]

qubes-template-minimal-stub is not included in any repository (and shouldn't be), so just merging this will affect only newly built templates. This is one more thing requiring #2572

[marmarek]

qubes-template-minimal-stub is not included in any repository (and shouldn't be), so just merging this will affect only newly built templates. This is one more thing requiring #2572