Touchpad-Indicator crashes on start

[Tim romig]

Tried launching after a fresh install of Xubuntu 14.04 LTS. Installed from PPA. It looks to me as if it did not install correctly. I have purged and tried to re-install as well with no joy.
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Here's console output.

gimormit@Destiny:~$ /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/bin/touchpad-indicator
<gettext.GNUTranslations object at 0x7fdd0805c4a8>
#####################################################
No LSB modules are available.
#####################################################
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Version: x86_64
#####################################################

Touchpad-Indicator version: 1.0.5-0extras15.04.0-src
#####################################################
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/bin/touchpad-indicator", line 42, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/touchpad_indicator.py", line 483, in main
    tpi=TouchpadIndicator()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/touchpad_indicator.py", line 95, in __init__
    self.read_preferences()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/touchpad_indicator.py", line 227, in read_preferences
    configuration = Configuration()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/configurator.py", line 32, in __init__
    self.read()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/configurator.py", line 56, in read
    f=codecs.open(comun.CONFIG_FILE,'r','utf-8')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 896, in open
    file = builtins.open(filename, mode, buffering)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/gimormit/.config/touchpad-indicator/touchpad-indicator.conf'

[MD4 (bruno-mueller)]

I created the directory .config/touchpad-indicator but still get the same error

[MD4 (bruno-mueller)]

I am using using Ubuntu 15.04 and get the follwoing:
susan@srhp:~$ /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/bin/touchpad-indicator &
[1] 4203
susan@srhp:~$ <gettext.GNUTranslations object at 0x7fa5c0009be0>
#####################################################
No LSB modules are available.
#####################################################
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid
Version: x86_64
#####################################################

Touchpad-Indicator version: 1.0.5-0extras15.04.0-src
#####################################################
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/bin/touchpad-indicator", line 42, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/touchpad_indicator.py", line 483, in main
    tpi=TouchpadIndicator()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/touchpad_indicator.py", line 95, in __init__
    self.read_preferences()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/touchpad_indicator.py", line 227, in read_preferences
    configuration = Configuration()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/configurator.py", line 32, in __init__
    self.read()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/configurator.py", line 56, in read
    f=codecs.open(comun.CONFIG_FILE,'r','utf-8')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 891, in open
    file = builtins.open(filename, mode, buffering)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/susan/.config/touchpad-indicator/touchpad-indicator.conf'

[1]+ Exit 1 /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/bin/touchpad-indicator

[SilverFire (d-naumenko-a)]

Confirmin crashing on Ubuntu 15.04

After creating ~/touchpad-indicator/touchpad-indicator.conf have an error:

touchpad-indicator crashed with OSError in /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/comun.py: [Errno 5] Input/output error

[Papatravka (papatravka)]

Confirmin crashing on Ubuntu 14.04

After creating ~/touchpad-indicator/touchpad-indicator.conf have an error:

touchpad-indicator crashed with OSError in /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/touchpad-indicator/share/touchpad-indicator/comun.py: [Errno 5] Input/output error

[Nicholas McCurdy (nick-mccurdy)]

I encountered this with Ubuntu 15.04 with exactly the same result as MD4 above. Following the comments from this related thread: https://bugs.launchpad.net/touchpad-indicator/+bug/1476064

I applied the following command with a successful outcome:

echo '{}' > ~/.config/touchpad-indicator/touchpad-indicator.conf

So far, everything is working fine again.

[MD4 (bruno-mueller)]

Hi Nick

Thanks for the tip now it works

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

It seems crashes only 1.0.5 version, I'm using older 1.0.4 version without problems :)
working touchpad-indicator 1.0.4 can be installed from official Ubuntu-derivative Baltix repository:
ppa:baltix-members/ppa
See https://launchpad.net/~baltix-members/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=touchpad-indicator

[tellapu (tellapu)]

Same happens to me (also 1.0.5). Nick's workaround (comment 5 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/touchpad-indicator/+bug/1483954/comments/5) works for me, too, after creating the folder .config/touchpad-indicator (as mentioned in comment 1).

[synion (lach-szymon86)]

hello I also add permission to touchpad-indicator.conf and after that it was start so put comannd
chmod 777 touchpad-indicator.conf