boot-repair GUI does not start in 20.04 (glade2script-python3 error)

[Bill (franksmcb)]

Trying to run boot-repair in 20.04 daily, I get error:

VirtualBox:~$ boot-repair
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/glade2script-python3", line 49, in <module>
    from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser'

********************* INFORMATION FROM BOOT-REPAIR DEVS****************
This is due to the fact that glade2script (boot-repair's graphic engine) uses Python2, which has been removed from 20.04.
So now we need to upgrade /usr/bin/glade2script to Python3... which may take weeks/months. Hopefully someone can help.

Meanwhile, you can still use latest version of Boot-Repair PPA from a 18.04 or 19.10 live session, or from a Boot-Repair-Disk. Even if 20.04 is installed on your computer.

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

Still exists. How to use to fix installation? Installed on GPT EFI

[Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo)]

kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
 Simple tool to repair frequent boot problems.

Website: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it.

Ign:1 cdrom://Kubuntu 20.04 LTS _Focal Fossa_ - Alpha amd64 (20200229) focal InRelease
Hit:2 cdrom://Kubuntu 20.04 LTS _Focal Fossa_ - Alpha amd64 (20200229) focal Release
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug boot-
boot-info boot-repair boot-sav-extra
boot-info-script boot-sav
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug boot-
boot-info boot-repair boot-sav-extra
boot-info-script boot-sav
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug boot-repair
dpkg-query: no packages found matching boot-repair
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug boot-repair
dpkg-query: no packages found matching boot-repair
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ ubuntu-bug boot-repair
dpkg-query: no packages found matching boot-repair
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ boot-repaor
boot-repaor: command not found
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ boot-repair
boot-repair: command not found
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 boot-repair : Depends: boot-sav but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo apt install boot-sav
boot-sav boot-sav-extra
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo apt install boot-sav
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 boot-sav : Depends: glade2script (>= 3) but it is not going to be installed or
                     glade2script-gtk2 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ ^C
kubuntu@kubuntu:~$ sudo apt install glade2script
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have ...

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Thanks for reporting.
This is due to the fact that glade2script (boot-repair's graphic engine) uses Python2, which has been removed from 20.04.
So now we need to upgrade /usr/bin/glade2script to Python3... which may take weeks/months. Hopefully someone can help.

Meanwhile, you can still use latest version of Boot-Repair PPA from a 18.04 or 19.10 live session, or from a Boot-Repair-Disk. Even if 20.04 is installed on your computer.

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Fixed in 4ppa74. by using python2 from Universe.

[Bill (franksmcb) (franksmcb)]

Can confirm that this installs correctly on current 20.04 daily ISO.