GUI gives NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined
arielsboiardi opened this issue · 7 comments
Hi, I was trying to get opensnitch to work on Fedora 33, I was able to get the daemon to log the connection, while the gui was a bit more complicated.
I was able to launch opensnitch-ui and see the log of the connections. Problem was that whenever I tried to save a rule (both manually or from the prompt) the ui crashed, with Python complaining that name 'unicode' is not defined in a call from slugify.
I found out that unicode does not exist on Python 3, so slugify does not work. Nonetheless I was able to (apparently) fix the problem installing python-slugify from pip, which is compatible with Python 3.
Some possibly useless closing comments
- The problem might well be due to the
python3-slugifypackage in the fedora repositories (which i think should be defaulted topython-slugify, as Python 3 is core to many Fedora components (dnfto name one). - Maybe the post install call of
pipinstalls the right package and so this issue is useless.
BTW, I almost forgot: thanks for the good work you put into this interesting project! It is awesome (now that it works).
Hi Ariel!
Install unicode_slugify using pip3:
pip3 install unicode_slugify
and grpcio-tools
pip3 install grcpio-tools
Hi @gustavo-iniguez-goya
Thanks for replying, I solved the problem installing python-slugify.
Unfortunately it took me a while to figure out the problem, so I opened this issue, I case someone has the same problem.
ok! I've just realized that this problem is referenced on the FAQs section of the wiki. I'll update it to make it more clear.
Thank you Ariel!
Oh, I'm sorry, I did not read carefully enough. Thanks for taking the time!
No worries Ariel. I've been reading about rpm weak dependencies, and from now on the GUI rpm package will install python3-slugify package if it's available, so thank you for bring this problem up!
Installing weak dependencies:
python3-slugify noarch 4.0.1-4.fc33 fedora 24 k
In older fedora versions, or opensuse, python3-slugify is not available, so I didn't add i as dependency. But adding as a Weak dependency solves the problem.
The packages python3-grpcio and python3-protobuf are also available, but I need to verify that they work correctly before adding as dependencies. So maybe we can have packages fully instalables just using yum :))
Yea, I can confirm python3-slugify works, maybe the first attempt did not work because there was also slugify installed by pip.
I did install also python3-grpcio and python3-protobuf with dnf and everything seems to work fine.
I have also tested a not-so-up-to-date machine with a minimal Fedora 32 install and those dependencies seem to be enough.
I can confirm that python3-grpcio does not work on OpenSuse, and as far as I can remember others (ubuntu 20, etc).
It gets stucked just after launching a simple example. I'll try to debug it, because the package is up to date. Or I'll open a new issue on gRPC repo to get help from the experts :)
Installing grpcio from pip works fine.