Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Interface doesn't work on 11.10

[Bigo72-c]

It looks very rare, I can't find anybody else on internet with the same problem .... except jasmines: http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2011/09/18/ubuntu-tweak-0-6-beta-is-ready-for-testers-and-developers.html/comment-page-2#comment-21380
The interface looks like this screenshot: http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/181/2902/original.jpg
I did try to change Gnome Shell theme, gtk3 and metacity theme, but nothing changed, so it looks not depending on graphical elements in any 3rd part theme...
Launching the application in a terminal window, this is what I get: http://pastebin.com/hzmcu7Ab
Just can't figure out how to solve it.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Please tell me your desktop environment, thanks.

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

I'm now on Gnome Shell, but it happens also on Unity or fallback mode. I did it a try, restarting my sessions.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Could you try to run "ubuntu-tweak -m Icon" under terminal, to see if there's a page to tweak icons?

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Mmmhh, I can't understand what I'm looking for, but I did it, and a page with desktop icons options appeared. I attached it to this comment.
Do you need also the terminal output?

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Seems its ok with function.

Could you provide the desktop environment to me, run this under terminal:

  env|grep DESKTOP_SESSION

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Here it is

alex@1201N:~$ env|grep DESKTOP_SESSION
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome-shell
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

So it's the standard GNOME Shell desktop, I've also tried Ubuntu Tweak under GNOME Shell, everything is OK.

Have you tried to set back your desktop themes to original?

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Yes, I did! Shell theme is still the original one and I changed the gtk3/metacity one back to Ambiance, just to try it ... nothing.
Do you know when a little problem becomes the most important thing in your life, when you play with informatic stuff?
It is exactly like this for me at the moment :-) I forget my wife also, thinking to my Ubuntu Tweak issue!
At the end I will format everithing and install again, you will see :-(

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Sorry to hear that, I really can't reproduce this issue in my system :(

Hope this issue will be solved after you install again.

[Mauro (jasmines)]

Same here, after several reinstalls and purges.
DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome-shell
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Welcome to my world, Mauro! Hoping somebody can help us ...

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

@jasmines

What did you try to reinstall?

[KQK (kqk-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I think I know where is the problem - empty values on dconf:
apps -> ubuntu-tweak -> tweak (Name: admins; Value: [])
apps -> ubuntu-tweak -> tweak (Name: tweaks; Value: [])

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

This is empty by default.

Could you tell me your language locale? Thanks.

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Mine is italian

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Seems not related to the language locale.

Did you install some extension or other library for your GNOME Shell desktop?

[Mauro (jasmines)]

I tried to purge and reinstall ubuntu tweak (should I purge and reinstall anything else?)
I installed many gnome shell extensions:
Menu
windowNavigator
icon-manager
Removable Drive Menu
Extended Places Status Indicator
Alternative Status Menu
Pidgin IM Integration
Cardapio
Static Workspaces
Auto Move Windows
GPaste
User Themes
Shut Down Menu
gnome-shell-classic-systray
Applications Menu
Panel Favorites
Places Status Indicator
Move Clock
Window List
Bottom Panel
SkypeNotification
Dock
Message Notifier
noa11y
Native Window Placement

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

I'm not sure if it is a problem caused by GNOME Shell extensions, because you said it happened in both GNOME Shell and Unity, right?

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

yes, correct. I have the same problem with Unity too

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Still have no idea what how to cause this problem.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Hi all, could you please try this version?

I tried to solve this issue, but I'm not sure if it works, so please install this special build and try it, tell me the result, thanks.

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

Thanks, I will test this evening, I give you a feedback ASAP.

Olivier.

2012/1/4 Ding Zhou <email address hidden>

> Hi all, could you please try this version?
>
> I tried to solve this issue, but I'm not sure if it works, so please
> install this special build and try it, tell me the result, thanks.
>
> ** Attachment added: "ubuntu-tweak_0.7.0+bzr1666+20120104_all.deb"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+bug/905914/+attachment/2656516/+files/ubuntu-tweak_0.7.0%2Bbzr1666%2B20120104_all.deb
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (911145).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905914
>
> Title:
> Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Interface doesn't work on 11.10
>
> Status in Ubuntu Tweak:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> It looks very rare, I can't find anybody else on internet with the same
> problem .... except jasmines:
> http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2011/09/18/ubuntu-tweak-0-6-beta-is-ready-for-testers-and-developers.html/comment-page-2#comment-21380
> The interface looks like this screenshot:
> http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/181/2902/original.jpg
> I did try to change Gnome Shell theme, gtk3 and metacity theme, but
> nothing changed, so it looks not depending on graphical elements in any 3rd
> part theme...
> Launching the application in a terminal window, this is what I get:
> http://pastebin.com/hzmcu7Ab
> Just can't figure out how to solve it.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+bug/905914/+subscriptions
>

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Nothing, Ding, unfortunately .... same issue here ...
I was hoping :-(

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

I've tried with the provided version, but same issue. I've also tried with LANG="C" but still not.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

It's really strange. At now, it seems only happened on the non-English default locale.

This time I tried to remove all the translation, only in English. Could you help to try again? Thanks

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

The application comes now in english, but doesn't fix the icons. But for your information, the categories names still in French, may be this cause the issue?

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Could you run "ubuntu-tweak -d" under terminal and give me the output to me? Thanks.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Please install this new version, this time I dumped more debug information.

After install this version, then run Ubuntu Tweak from Terminal by "ubuntu-tweak -d", and give me the output. Thanks.

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

Please find has attached file, the debug info. For you information, I ran ubuntu-tweak, click on "Tweaks" button, then close.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

OK, seems no wrong in the debug log.

This time, please download this extension, and install it form the Preferences dialog in Ubuntu Tweak, and enable it, try to see if it will be showed.

You can follow the guide here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTweak/HowToWritePlugins

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

Funny thing, when I enable the plugins, it's showed and all others too. But once close and restart ubuntu-tweak, all icons have disapeared again.

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

Adtionnaly, If I try to open font, it failes with the following error, may be this is liked ?

Distribution: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
Application: Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.0+bzr1668+20120106
Desktop:ubuntu

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/main.py", line 452, in _load_module
    page = module()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ubuntutweak/tweaks/theme.py", line 34, in __init__
    TweakModule.__init__(self)
TypeError: expected string or buffer

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

The same error occured also with a lot of others modules, but not all.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

Cool!

Does the "TypeError: expected string or buffer" error happen every time after your restart Ubuntu Tweak?

Could you give me a list of the modules have this error. And I want to know have you made a system update?

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

The problem is that sometime some plugin works, sometime not.

At this time only "Fonts" works now, all other not. Before, Fonts not
working, but Bluetooth worked.

My system is up to date, but I always has this bug with Oneiric. Ubuntu
tweak never worked for me on 11.10 (bug already in the beta).

Olivier.

2012/1/6 Ding Zhou <email address hidden>

> Cool!
>
> Does the "TypeError: expected string or buffer" error happen every time
> after your restart Ubuntu Tweak?
>
>
> Could you give me a list of the modules have this error. And I want to
> know have you made a system update?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (911145).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905914
>
> Title:
> Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Interface doesn't work on 11.10
>
> Status in Ubuntu Tweak:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> It looks very rare, I can't find anybody else on internet with the same
> problem .... except jasmines:
> http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2011/09/18/ubuntu-tweak-0-6-beta-is-ready-for-testers-and-developers.html/comment-page-2#comment-21380
> The interface looks like this screenshot:
> http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/181/2902/original.jpg
> I did try to change Gnome Shell theme, gtk3 and metacity theme, but
> nothing changed, so it looks not depending on graphical elements in any 3rd
> part theme...
> Launching the application in a terminal window, this is what I get:
> http://pastebin.com/hzmcu7Ab
> Just can't figure out how to solve it.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+bug/905914/+subscriptions
>

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

 OK

I wonder this random issue is caused by Python, but I can't figure out which part is wrong.

Let me think...

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

I think too.

I let you think :P

2012/1/8 Ding Zhou <email address hidden>

> OK
>
> I wonder this random issue is caused by Python, but I can't figure out
> which part is wrong.
>
> Let me think...
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (911145).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/905914
>
> Title:
> Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Interface doesn't work on 11.10
>
> Status in Ubuntu Tweak:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> It looks very rare, I can't find anybody else on internet with the same
> problem .... except jasmines:
> http://blog.ubuntu-tweak.com/2011/09/18/ubuntu-tweak-0-6-beta-is-ready-for-testers-and-developers.html/comment-page-2#comment-21380
> The interface looks like this screenshot:
> http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/181/2902/original.jpg
> I did try to change Gnome Shell theme, gtk3 and metacity theme, but
> nothing changed, so it looks not depending on graphical elements in any 3rd
> part theme...
> Launching the application in a terminal window, this is what I get:
> http://pastebin.com/hzmcu7Ab
> Just can't figure out how to solve it.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+bug/905914/+subscriptions
>

[brian baker (brian-m-baker)]

updated to ubuntu 12.04 installed latest test verion of ubuntu-tweak
it ran but with error loading modules. so i unistalled it and then reinstalled and ran it in the terminal and now it wks fine the only thing that showed an error was

ubuntu-tweak

Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1598:17: Invalid animation description

not sure if this is helpful?
cheers

[Swarnendu Biswas (swarna-cse)]

I have a similar problem with Olivier (in continuation to Ding's comment and packages on 6th Jan). Enabling the bluetooth extension shows the icons in the tweak tab, but no icons in the admin page. But since then I cannot start tweak.

[Swarnendu Biswas (swarna-cse)]

This is in continuation of my previous post. This is the error that I get:

Unique-GDBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Timeout was reached

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

The Gtk-WARNING and Unique-GDBus-WARNING is not problem.

[Fujisan （富士山） (fujisan)]

I want to report that i also have the same problem:
http://ubuntuone.com/4QKmKzyZ1r5OsMVKvqndl4
http://ubuntuone.com/2emstn5Aq0qvNy1alTqHcJ

The problem occurs on my laptop and I also have a desktop on which i do not have this problem.
Both pcs are running under ubuntu 11.10 64bits.

here are some outputs:

############################################
On the laptop with the problem:

$ ubuntu-tweak -d
[app][DEBUG] Distribution: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
Application: Ubuntu Tweak 0.6.0-1~oneiric1
Desktop:ubuntu (main.py:259)
[app][DEBUG] Load modules, remove: False (main.py:191)
[ModuleLoader][INFO] Loading system modules for tweaks... (__init__.py:53)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: metacity (__init__.py:149)

(ubuntu-tweak:24366): GConf-WARNING **: : You can't use a GConfEngine that has an active GConfClient wrapper object. Use GConfClient API instead.

(ubuntu-tweak:24366): GConf-WARNING **: : You can't use a GConfEngine that has an active GConfClient wrapper object. Use GConfClient API instead.
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.01.upgrade
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.02.upgrade
Initializing core options...done
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: icons (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: loginsettings (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: ccm (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: lockdown (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: fonts (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: compiz (__init__.py:149)

(ubuntu-tweak:24366): GConf-WARNING **: : You can't use a GConfEngine that has an active GConfClient wrapper object. Use GConfClient API instead.

(ubuntu-tweak:24366): GConf-WARNING **: : You can't use a GConfEngine that has an active GConfClient wrapper object. Use GConfClient API instead.
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be migrated ...no
Backend : gconf
Integration : true
Profile : unity
Adding plugins
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.01.upgrade
Skipping upgrade com.canonical.unity.unity.02.upgrade
Initializing core options...done
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: misc (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: theme (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: session (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro (__init__.py:212)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] Try to load module: workarounds (__init__.py:149)
[ModuleLoader][DEBUG] is_supported_distro...

[Fujisan （富士山） (fujisan)]

I installed the bluetoothsettings.py in the "tweaks" tab of the prefs and all the other buttons appeared along with the "bluetooth settings" button in the "tweaks" section. But when i close ubuntu-tweak and reopen it, the "tweaks" section is empty again. So I open the prefs and in the "tweaks" tab, I uncheck/check the bluetooth setting and every reappears in the "tweaks" section.

[Olivier (olivier-bitsch)]

For your information, and probably after some Ubuntu updates, the problem seems fixed definitely.

I'm still running under 0.7.0+bzr1668+20120106.

Olivier.

[Mauro (jasmines)]

Just tried with 0.7.0-0~20120130+bzr1672~oneiric1
same problem.

[Fujisan （富士山） (fujisan)]

Even after somes updates and ubuntu-tweak_0.7.0+bzr1668+20120106_all.deb installed, problem still remains.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

I tried to fix this issue, but I can't verify in my system because I can't reproduce.

I packaged four deb packages, please try one by one and tell me if it works, thanks!

[Mauro (jasmines)]

Version 2 works!!!
Even if the arrows on top left of the window are still disabled, other tabs precedently greyed out are now as in the attached screenshots.

[Mauro (jasmines)]

Even arrows works!
Correct the previous comment. Version 2 is perfect.

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

@jasmines

Great! Thanks for your test.

Could you also try to verify if you can install the bluetooth extension from this link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+bug/905914/comments/30 ?

[Fujisan （富士山） (fujisan)]

Version 2 works for me too!
And the bluetooth extension is installed.

Thanks.

[brian baker (brian-m-baker)]

just tested ubuntu-tweak_0.7.0-version-2-always-remove.deb and added bluetoothsettings.py and everything wking fine and still wking after a full reboot :-)

[Fujisan （富士山） (fujisan)]

So, Ding, what was the problem?

[Bigo72-c (bigo72-c)]

Thank you very much Ding! I was following this bug that I opened, even if I sold my PC, running just iOS and MacOS, but I' very happy, thank you!

[Ding Zhou (tualatrix)]

@fujisan

I still don't know the problem why some people encountered this issue, but after changing the way to render the module, the problem was solved.