[arch-general] Gufw broken by large update.

[Phil Wyett]

On Sat, 2017-01-07 at 02:31 +0000, Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 21:02 -0500, Alonzo Gomez via arch-general
> 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.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Looks like gufw needs a rebuild for python 3.6.
> 
> '/usr/bin/gufw-pkexec' contents.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> LOCATIONS=(
> "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gufw/gufw.py"
> "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/gufw/gufw.py"
> "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/gufw.py"
> )
> 
> for ((i = 0; i < ${#LOCATIONS[@]}; i++))
> do
>     if [[ -e "${LOCATIONS[${i}]}" ]]; then
>         python3 ${LOCATIONS[${i}]} $1
>     fi
> done
> 
> I would file a bug.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Phil
> 

P.S.

Workaround...

In terminal:

sudo python /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gufw/gufw.py

Regards

Phil

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