Caffeine

Caffeine does not start in Ubuntu

Bug #1453903 reported by Erich Eickmeyer
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Caffeine
Invalid
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Bug Description

Caffeine crashes upon start in Ubuntu. When started from the terminal, this is the output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/caffeine-indicator", line 176, in <module>
    caffeine = Caffeine()
  File "/usr/bin/caffeine-indicator", line 125, in __init__
    self.root = display.Display().screen().root
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 80, in __init__
    self.display = _BaseDisplay(display)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 62, in __init__
    display.Display.__init__(*(self, ) + args, **keys)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 61, in __init__
    name, host, displayno)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/support/connect.py", line 93, in get_auth
    return getattr(mod, modname).get_auth(sock, dname, host, dno)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/support/unix_connect.py", line 116, in new_get_auth
    au = xauth.Xauthority()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Xlib/xauth.py", line 84, in __init__
    self.entries.append((family, addr.decode('UTF-8'),
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 0: invalid start byte

This only recently started happening. Let me know if you need any more info. Version 2.8.3

Revision history for this message
Matija Polajnar (matija-polajnar) wrote :

I have the same problem with another python program (not present in ubuntu repo). As a workaround, downgrading python-xlib one patch lower to http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/pool/universe/p/python-xlib/ python-xlib_0.14+20091101-1ubuntu2_all.deb makes it work again.

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Reuben Thomas (rrt) wrote :

This is not a bug in caffeine, it's a bug in python-xlib. Please report the bug there.

Changed in caffeine:
status: New → Invalid
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