[arch-general] Gufw broken by large update.

[mike lojkovic]

It's not working for me either. Is gufw written in python? I know python
was updated to 3.6 today, breaking a few packages till they get updated for
3.6.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Alonzo Gomez via arch-general <
arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Gufw was working (xorg only, not under Wayland) until today.  Today, I
> did a large update of multiple packages - about 240 Mb worth.  After
> that Gufw no longer starts.
>
> Symptoms:
> When gufw icon is clicked, the authentication window pops up as usual,
> requesting the user password.  When entered incorrectly, the window
> just says incorrect, try again. When entered correctly, the
> authentication window disappears, and nothing further happens.
>
> Same behavior using Linux, Linux-lts, and Linux-grsec kernels.
>
> Note: Gufw always started correctly under xorg (chosen at GDM login).
> Gufw has never worked, just displayed the symptoms stated above, under
> Wayland (chosen at GDM login).
>
> Since the update today involved many packages, I don't know which
> one(s) are the culprit(s).  The updated packages seemed to be mainly
> about GTK and Python. All dependencies seem okay, and I did remove and
> reinstall Gufw.  Same results. (Python-gobject is intalled and up to
> date).
>
> I searched online, in the wiki, in the forums, and in the Arch bug
> reports, all to no avail. I did come across some old reports of
> similar problems, possibly where GTK was responsible.
>
> Ufw is and has been working fine, enabled and autostarted under systemd.
> I can't see anything suspect in dmesg or journalctl, but might not
> recognize it if I did.
>
> Setup:
> Arch x86-64
> Gnome 3
> Grub2
> machine is UEFI-capable, but using bios (MBR).
> 1 root partition (EXT4)
> 1 swap partition
>
> Contents of /var/log/gufw.log:
> [12/29/2016 10:47:41 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw --force delete 1
> [12/29/2016 10:47:32 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw --force delete 2
> [12/29/2016 10:46:15 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw deny in proto tcp from any to any
> port 23
> [10/31/2016 09:41:17 PM] Confirm Delete Dialog: Enabled
>
> I don't have 6 months to learn to use ufw without a gui.
>
> Any magic solution?
>
> If not - I'm so disgusted with ufw on Arch - can I just remove gufw,
> ufw, and ufw from systemctl, and then install firewalld.  If so, will
> the existing iptables configuration be overwritten automatically, or
> would it have to be somehow purged manually?
>
> Note: I have not filed a bug report yet.  I wanted to see if it was
> really a bug, or a PEBKAC error.
>