[arch-general] Gufw broken by large update.

[Alonzo Gomez]

Wow, that seems to work here.
Would that still work as an edit to /usr/bin/gufw-pkexec?


On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Phil Wyett via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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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