cinnamon-settings applets crashes

[Bednar87]

• Cinnamon version (cinnamon --version) Cinnamon 4.2.4
  • Please specify if you are using the daily builds PPA (https://launchpad.net/~linuxmint-daily-build-team/+archive/ubuntu/daily-builds). No
• Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...) Arch
• Graphics hardware and driver used Vega 64 Mesa 19.2.4
• 32 or 64 bit 64 bit
• Attach /home//.xsession-errors, or /var/log/sysl
  xsession-errors.txt

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Issue

cinnamon-settings applets crashes

Steps to reproduce
launch cinnamon-settings applets

Expected behaviour

Other information

> $ cinnamon-settings applets                                                                                                                                  
True
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:421: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  if category.int_name is not "custom":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:430: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if category.int_name is "custom":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:445: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if category.int_name is "custom":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:455: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  if entry is not "_invalid_":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:538: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if cat[2].int_name is "custom":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:576: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if cat[2].int_name is "custom":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:602: SyntaxWarning: "is" with a literal. Did you mean "=="?
  if cat[2].int_name is "custom":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:693: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  if entry is not "":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:733: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  if entry is not "":
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:779: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  ok_enabled = self.name_entry.get_text().strip() is not "" and self.command_entry.get_text().strip() is not ""
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_keyboard.py:779: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  ok_enabled = self.name_entry.get_text().strip() is not "" and self.command_entry.get_text().strip() is not ""
Using pam module (python3-pampy)
/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py:423: DeprecationWarning: Gtk.Window.set_wmclass is deprecated
  self.window.set_wmclass(wm_class, wm_class)
Loading Applets module
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 724, in <module>
    window = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 428, in __init__
    self.go_to_sidepage(cat, path, user_action=False)
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/cinnamon-settings.py", line 185, in go_to_sidepage
    sidePage.build()
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/SettingsWidgets.py", line 123, in build
    self.module.on_module_selected()
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_applets.py", line 21, in on_module_selected
    self.sidePage.load(self.window)
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/modules/cs_applets.py", line 46, in load
    download_applets_page = DownloadSpicesPage(self, self.collection_type, self.spices, window)
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/ExtensionCore.py", line 810, in __init__
    self.build_list()
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/ExtensionCore.py", line 897, in build_list
    msg_text = _("Update all") + ' (' + ngettext("%d update available", "%d updates available", updates_available) % updates_available  + ')'
NameError: name 'ngettext' is not defined

[leigh123linux]

Post

which ngettext

[caseyjp11]

Same issue on Arch. Clicking "Themes" from settings does nothing. Running "Cinnamon-settings" from the terminal provides what the user above pasted. As we've recently had major upgrades to python, is this possibly the culprit?

[claudiux]

Hi @Bednar87,

Try:

pacman -Suy gettext

[Bednar87]

Hi guys, I already have gettext installed

> $ which ngettext                                                                                                                                             
/usr/bin/ngettext

Hi @Bednar87,

Try:

pacman -Suy gettext

Tried, no change.

[leigh123linux]

Same issue on Arch. Clicking "Themes" from settings does nothing. Running "Cinnamon-settings" from the terminal provides what the user above pasted. As we've recently had major upgrades to python, is this possibly the culprit?

I can check to see if it see if it still works ok with python-3.8 next time I boot Rawhide.

[wvandelli]

Same problem here on a freshly updated Arch Linux.

This is how I fixed it:

~ $ diff /tmp/ExtensionCore.py /usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/ExtensionCore.py
897c897
<             msg_text = _("Update all") + ' (' + ngettext("%d update available", "%d updates available", updates_available) % updates_available  + ')'
---
>             msg_text = _("Update all") + ' (' + gettext.ngettext("%d update available", "%d updates available", updates_available) % updates_available  + ')'

The module name is missing in ExtensionCore.py, line 897

[mammo0]

I think this has to do with the update to Python version 3.8 on Arch Linux. After the update I get the above described error as well.

I fixed it temporary by changing the import gettext line to:
from gettext import *

But there are several other errors when using the applet settings module:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/ExtensionCore.py", line 917, in on_page_shown
    if show_prompt(prompt, self.window):
  File "/usr/share/cinnamon/cinnamon-settings/bin/ExtensionCore.py", line 98, in show_prompt
    esc = cgi.escape(msg)

For this error I found the following solution: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1702082
So I changed the line import cgi to:
import html as cgi
It seems that this module was renamed in Python 3.8?

Another error is that there are no installed applets listed. Instead I get for all my installed applets:
Failed to load extension sound@cinnamon.org: 'function' object has no attribute 'translation'

So long story short: I think that the current cinnamon version is not completely compatible with Python 3.8.
Edit: Ignore my import fix above for `gettext`. Instead use the one of @wvandelli. Then the list of installed applets is not empty.

[spsf64]

In my case the culprit was the Spices Update applet
I removed it from the panel then deleted the directory "/home/$USER/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/SPICES-APPPLET"
Not it works again!

But launching cinnamon-settings from terminal still show plenty of "cs_keyboard.py" warnings as in the OP

[claudiux]

@spsf64 You can now reinstall the Spices Update applet. Please take a look at https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/309#count.

[claudiux]

@spsf64 Argh ! Unable to download the latest version (5.1.0) of Spices Update on Arch. I'm searching...

[claudiux]

Thank you @wvandelli.

@spsf64

For SpicesUpdate to work properly with Python 3.8, edit line 32 of the ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/SpicesUpdate@claudiux/cs/4.2/cinnamon-settings.py file.

From:
gettext.install("cinnamon", "/usr/share/locale", names="ngettext")

To:
gettext.install("cinnamon", "/usr/share/locale", names="gettext.ngettext")

I'll make a PR. Version 5.1.1 of Spices Update will be available soon.
EDIT: linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets#2683
@claudiux

[Bednar87]

@claudiux

Thanks, SpicesUpdate v5.1.1 resolves this issue.