cpupower-gui fails to launch
phongvu99 opened this issue · comments
Describe the bug
The GUI failed to start when tried to launch via the shortcut or the terminal
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:
- Find the application
- Either click on 'cpupower-gui' via the menu or type it out in the terminal.
- Nothing happened via the menu but if used the terminal then step 4.
- See error
Expected behaviour
A traceback provided by Python.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 175, in activate_name_owner
return self.get_name_owner(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 361, in get_name_owner
's', (bus_name,), **keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper': no such name
During` handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cpupower-gui", line 40, in
from cpupower_gui import main
File "/usr/share/cpupower-gui/cpupower_gui/main.py", line 36, in
from .window import CpupowerGuiWindow
File "/usr/share/cpupower-gui/cpupower_gui/window.py", line 26, in
"org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper", "/org/rnd2/cpupower_gui/helper"
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in init
self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner
self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name
'su', (bus_name, flags)))
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit: Unit cpupower-gui-helper.service not found.
Setup (please complete the following information):
- Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Cinammon
- Package version: Latest one
- Installed via: Meson build system and Ninja as the backend
Additional context
None.
I think the issue is when you built with meson.
My bad that I haven't document this in README, but there is an option for the systemd directory.
I tried this in a virtual machine using a live image. Meson version from repo is 0.45.1 and this project requires >=0.50.0. Also, Mint 19.3 is base on Ubuntu 18.04 and the version of python3-gobject is not available. The latest version of cpupower-gui that can be run on Ubuntu 18.04 is 0.7.0
(see note below).
You could try solving the system-helper error, but I don't think you can get away with python3-gobject
.
If you want to try and report back do the following
meson --prefix /usr -Dsystemddir=/lib/systemd build
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
This should resolve the dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit: Unit cpupower-gui-helper.service not found.
error.
Note:
If you want to get a deb package for 0.7.0
, use the one from launchpad (download link)
This actually solved the problem. Thanks for the rapid help!
Btw, my Meson build system version is 0.51.2. The -Dsystemddir config resolves this for me.
P.S. You should add this to the documentation so people can resolve this issue in case they encounter one.
Thanks for letting me know it worked.
I will add this to README.md