variety doesn't start // crashes

[Timon Traub]

Hi,

when I launch variety from the Dash (Ubuntu 14.04), nothing happens. When I launch it from the terminal, this is the log:

timon@Thinkpad-Linux:~$ /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/bin/variety -v
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,326: perform_upgrade() 'Last run version was 0.4.21 or earlier, current version is 0.4.21'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,328: process_command() 'Received command: [u'-v']'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,343: load() 'Jumble loading'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,343: _walk_modules() 'Jumble loading module in __init__ from /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/share/variety/plugins/__init__.py'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,344: _walk_modules() 'Jumble loading module in LocalFilesSource from /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/share/variety/plugins/quotes/LocalFilesSource.py'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,344: load() 'Jumble found plugin class: <class 'LocalFilesSource.LocalFilesSource'>: {'author': 'Peter Levi', 'name': 'Local text files', 'version': '0.1', 'description': u'Displays quotes, defined in local text files.\nPut your own txt files in: ~/.config/variety/pluginconfig/quotes/.\nThe file format is:\n\nquote -- author\n.\nsecond quote -- another author\n.\netc...\n\nExample: http://rvelthuis.de/zips/quotes.txt'}'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,345: _walk_modules() 'Jumble loading module in QuotationsPageSource from /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/share/variety/plugins/quotes/QuotationsPageSource.py'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,356: load() 'Jumble found plugin class: <class 'QuotationsPageSource.QuotationsPageSource'>: {'author': 'Peter Levi', 'name': 'TheQuotationsPage.com', 'version': '0.1', 'description': u'Fetches quotes from TheQuotationsPage.com'}'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,357: _walk_modules() 'Jumble loading module in __init__ from /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/share/variety/plugins/quotes/__init__.py'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,358: _walk_modules() 'Jumble loading module in GoodreadsSource from /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/share/variety/plugins/quotes/GoodreadsSource.py'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,358: load() 'Jumble found plugin class: <class 'GoodreadsSource.GoodreadsSource'>: {'author': 'Peter Levi', 'name': 'Goodreads', 'version': '0.1', 'description': u'Fetches quotes from Goodreads.com'}'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,359: _walk_modules() 'Jumble loading module in QuotesDaddySource from /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/share/variety/plugins/quotes/QuotesDaddySource.py'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,359: load() 'Jumble found plugin class: <class 'QuotesDaddySource.QuotesDaddySource'>: {'author': 'Peter Levi', 'name': 'QuotesDaddy', 'version': '0.1', 'description': u"Fetches quotes from QuotesDaddy's daily quotes RSS feed.\nDoes not support searching by tags or authors."}'
INFO: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,362: makedirs() 'Creating folder /media/timon/Storage/Pictures/Wallpapers'
ERROR: 2014-12-14 13:14:22,362: makedirs() 'Could not makedirs for /media/timon/Storage/Pictures/Wallpapers'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/Util.py", line 184, in makedirs
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/media/timon/Storage'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/bin/variety", line 41, in <module>
    variety.main()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/__init__.py", line 141, in main
    window.start(arguments)
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 164, in start
    self.reload_config()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 354, in reload_config
    self.prepare_download_folder()
  File "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/variety/variety/VarietyWindow.py", line 343, in prepare_download_folder
    with open(dl_folder_file, "w") as f:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/media/timon/Storage/Pictures/Wallpapers/.variety_download_folder'

I think I know what the problem is: during Variety's first install a couple of days ago, I told it to save wallpapers to a HDD called Storage, then found in /media/timon/Storage. In the meantime, I decided to mount the HDD to /media/Storage. I tried uninstalling, sudo apt-get purging and reinstalling Variety, but it still remembers that first location and I don't know how to tell it not to. Any ideas?

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

The way to reset it is to delete the folder ~/.config/variety, then start it again. Or you may manually edit ~/.config/variety/variety.conf to change the folders but this is more work than resetting it completely.

[Timon Traub (timon-traub)]

YES! D'oh!

Thanks so much! It's working beautifully now!