Manjaro Linux install of eduvpn by package manager works smoothly, but the gui does not launch

Installation

yay -S python-eduvpn-client
gives a smooth install

Version

eduvpn-gui -v gives eduVPN client version 4.1.1

OS/Distribution

Manjaro Linux (23.0.0)

Do you have a problem while adding before connecting?

eduvpn-gui gives

...
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/eduvpn/ui/ui.py", line 149, in setup
    self.info_version.set_text(f"{__version__}")
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'set_text'

This used to work until relatively recently.

Hmmm do you perhaps have multiple versions installed, e.g. one through pip?

Indeed! The problem, however, persisted after removing these installs.

On my pc I have the same OS as on my laptop, but I was able to fix the problem on my pc, by a reinstall, which required taking a few hurdles.
Unfortunately the same steps did not suffice for my laptop.

Thanks for the confirmation. could you maybe do a sudo find / -iname "*mainwindow.ui" 2>/dev/null

and post the results? Maybe the UI file it's trying to load is still from an older version?

The file should look like: https://github.com/eduvpn/python-eduvpn-client/blob/4.1.1/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui

That yielded this:

/home/hanno/.local/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/nfc/ndefeditor/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/nfc/annotatedurl/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/dbus/chat/chatmainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/widgets/tools/undo/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/widgets/itemviews/editabletreemodel/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/widgets/widgets/stylesheet/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/sensors/sensorgestures/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/activeqt/mediaplayer/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/serialbus/can/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/serialbus/modbus/master/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/serialbus/modbus/slave/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/pdfwidgets/pdfviewer/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/scxml/mediaplayer-common/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/scxml/pinball/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/scxml/calculator-widgets/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/xmlpatterns/filetree/forms/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/webenginewidgets/cookiebrowser/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/webenginewidgets/markdowneditor/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/webenginewidgets/stylesheetbrowser/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/serialport/terminal/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/network/secureudpserver/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/network/secureudpclient/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/doc/qt/examples/speech/hello_speak/mainwindow.ui
/usr/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui

I.e. two instances of mainwindow.ui that can be linked to eduvpn.

/usr/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui is exactly equal to the file you posted but /home/hanno/.local/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui is very much different.

However, after modifying PATH, i.e. after removing ~/.local from PATH, the error from eduvpn-gui & persists.

Could you move /home/hanno/.local/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui to a new name instead? e.g. /home/hanno/.local/share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow_backup.ui that should work. See the ordering here

python-eduvpn-client/eduvpn/utils.py

Lines 60 to 62 in fc325e2

    
           target = "share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui" 
        
           local = path.dirname(path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__))) 
        
           options = [local, path.expanduser("~/.local"), "/usr/local", prefix]

I would advise you to maybe remove or backup the whole /home/hanno/.local/share/eduvpn as it looks like a left-over from the pip installation

I thought pip uninstall would remove these but maybe something went wrong there?

You got it!

This was from a pip installation in a conda py310 environment.
I have not used that environment in a while.
So pip uninstall "eduvpn-client[gui]" from my conda base environment nor from my conda py311 environment have apparently removed those files in ~/.local. Makes sense, since I did not install eduvpn from that environment. Duh.

Apparently I have done a pip install "eduvpn-client[gui]" on March 6 in my conda py310 environment.

Anyway this fixed it:

conda activate py310
pip uninstall "eduvpn-client[gui]"

Problem solved, eduvpn works now, thanks for the patience.

No problem (geen probleem), these kinds of things can be really tricky to hunt down. Glad you got it working. If there is any other issue, feel free to make a new issue. Thanks for giving the fixing steps as well as that will help other users.

	target = "share/eduvpn/builder/mainwindow.ui"
	local = path.dirname(path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__)))
	options = [local, path.expanduser("~/.local"), "/usr/local", prefix]