pysolfc fails to launch since software update this week

[David Wise]

Since the last update that appeared to be for python, pysolfc does not launch. If started from the comd line the follow errors is shown:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/pysolfc", line 32, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/main.py", line 359, in main
    r = pysol_init(app, args)
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/main.py", line 335, in pysol_init
    app.loadImages4()
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/app.py", line 763, in loadImages4
    v[i] = loadImage(v[i])
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/tile/tkutil.py", line 276, in makeImage
    im = PIL_Image(file)
  File "/usr/share/games/pysolfc/pysollib/tile/tkutil.py", line 253, in __init__
    image = Image.open(file).convert('RGBA')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 2028, in open
    raise IOError("cannot identify image file")
IOError: cannot identify image file
Exception AttributeError: "PIL_Image instance has no attribute '_PhotoImage__photo'" in <bound method PIL_Image.__del__ of <pysollib.tile.tkutil.PIL_Image instance at 0xb3e9e4ac>> ignored

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: pysolfc 2.0-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-96.143-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-96-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Sep 28 11:53:25 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-14 (1140 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pysolfc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-13 (776 days ago)

[owise1 (o-wise-1)]

Just had a look at /var/log/apt/history.log and the following entry shows that a number of python components were updated that appear to be associated with the above errors

Start-Date: 2016-09-28 07:58:28
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.780'
Upgrade: libisccc90:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), python-
pil:i386 (2.3.0-1ubuntu3, 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2), python-imaging-compat:i386 (2.3.0-1
ubuntu3, 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2), libisc95:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ub
untu0.9), libbind9-90:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), libdn
s100:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), liblwres90:i386 (9.9.5
.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), libisccfg90:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.
8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), dnsutils:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), bind9-host:i386 (9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.8, 9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.9), python-imaging-tk:i386 (2.3.0-1ubuntu3, 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2), python-imaging:i386 (2.3.0-1ubuntu3, 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2), python-pil.imagetk:i386 (2.3.0-1ubuntu3, 2.3.0-1ubuntu3.2)
End-Date: 2016-09-28 07:58:44

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Steffen Goetz (steffengoetz)]

By downgrading python-pil via

 sudo apt-get install python-pil=2.3.0-1ubuntu3

the error is gone.