Caffeine does not start in Ubuntu
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Caffeine |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Caffeine crashes upon start in Ubuntu. When started from the terminal, this is the output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
caffeine = Caffeine()
File "/usr/bin/
self.root = display.
File "/usr/lib/
self.display = _BaseDisplay(
File "/usr/lib/
display.
File "/usr/lib/
name, host, displayno)
File "/usr/lib/
return getattr(mod, modname)
File "/usr/lib/
au = xauth.Xauthority()
File "/usr/lib/
self.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfe in position 0: invalid start byte
This only recently started happening. Let me know if you need any more info. Version 2.8.3
I have the same problem with another python program (not present in ubuntu repo). As a workaround, downgrading python-xlib one patch lower to http:// si.archive. ubuntu. com/pool/ universe/ p/python- xlib/ python- xlib_0. 14+20091101- 1ubuntu2_ all.deb makes it work again.