Gufw

No module named gi

Bug #1566056 reported by Andrew on 2016-04-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1573567: Can't open gufw in Ubuntu 16.04. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gufw	New	Critical	costales

Bug Description

Gufw crashes when attempting to start it on Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 2. Here is the traceback information:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/gufw.py", line 21, in <module>
    from view.gufw import Gufw
  File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/view/gufw.py", line 19, in <module>
    import gi
ImportError: No module named gi

Steps to reproduce:
1. sudo apt install gufw
2. gufw
3. Type in password

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Andrew (andrewregan) wrote on 2016-04-04:

After a quick search, I found that Gufw is missing a python dependency. It appears that the python-gi package needs to be added as a dependency.

Steps to fix:
1. sudo apt install python-gi
2. gufw
3. Type in password

costales (costales) on 2016-04-06

Changed in gui-ufw:
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Critical
assignee:	nobody → costales (costales)

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costales (costales) wrote on 2016-04-09:

Hi :) I just installed the Xenial beta2 and everything is working fine :O

Changed in gui-ufw:
status:	In Progress → New
status:	New → Invalid
status:	Invalid → New

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Andrew (andrewregan) wrote on 2016-04-09:

Screenshot from 2016-04-09 12-53-13.png Edit (343.0 KiB, image/png)

I just re-tested gufw in a Xenial Beta2 VM, and the bug still persists. A screenshot is attached.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 2 from torrent
http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/

2. Install Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 2 in a virtual machine

3. Upgrade the system with the following commands
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

4. Install gufw using apt
sudo apt install gufw

5. Attempt to run gufw
gufw

I uploaded a demo of this bug on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cscL5NbT0V8

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costales (costales) wrote on 2016-04-09: Re: [Bug 1566056] Re: No mudule named gi

I tested that today too and it worked :P Let's give a time, maybe is a beta bug.
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costales (costales) on 2016-04-22

summary:

- No mudule named gi
+ No module named gi

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Aleksey Kabanov (ak099) wrote on 2016-04-30:

Gufw begins to work again after installation of python-gi:
sudo apt install python-gi

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mohamed (habi30002009) wrote on 2017-07-26:

hi
i already have python-gi installed but gufw still does not work same error "No module named 'gi'"
ubuntu 17.10

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stefano (cavina) wrote on 2017-10-26:

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xteto@xteto-ThinkPad-T470:~$ sudo apt install python-gi
[sudo] password di xtetox:
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
python-gi is already the newest version (3.24.1-2build1).
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xteto@xteto-ThinkPad-T470:~$ gufw
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Impossibile connettersi: Connection refused