Issue starting flatpak on Fedora 36

[averyfreeman]

Hey, was just opening program and saw this happen:

Context: Startup

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/gtk/application.py", line 110, in do_startup
    for backend_dic in BackendFactory().get_saved_backends_list():
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/backends/__init__.py", line 143, in get_saved_backends_list
    module = self.get_backend(settings.get('module'))
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/core/config.py", line 164, in get
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: No valid configuration value or default value was found for %s in %s

Software versions:

• Getting Things GNOME! v0.6
• CPython 3.9.9 (main, Nov 10 2011, 15:00:00) [GCC 11.3.0]
• GTK 3.24.33, GLib 2.72.1
• PyGLib 3.42.1, PyGObject 3.42.1
• Linux-5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.33

Is flatpak:

$ flatpak info org.gnome.GTG

Getting Things GNOME! - Personal tasks and TODO-list items organizer

          ID: org.gnome.GTG
         Ref: app/org.gnome.GTG/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 0.6
     License: GPL-3.0
      Origin: flathub
  Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
   Installed: 8.7 MB
     Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/42
         Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/42

      Commit: a2669e5e6c32eb5f7392619c03580b6646f50d39778576ac03de05385440fef2
      Parent: a48d70f74f2df27215f365840a928e714193ee9779a65b93bb4669f9d02f74ee
     Subject: Update runtime to GNOME 42 (0f43a023)
        Date: 2022-05-03 02:47:24 +0000

Fedora release info:

$ \cat /etc/os-release && \cat /etc/redhat-release && uname -a && lsb_release -a
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="36 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=36
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f36"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f36/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=36
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=36
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation
Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Linux treygouty 5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon May 9 15:47:11 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
LSB Version:	:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:cxx-4.1-amd64:cxx-4.1-noarch:desktop-4.1-amd64:desktop-4.1-noarch:languages-4.1-amd64:languages-4.1-noarch:printing-4.1-amd64:printing-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID:	Fedora
Description:	Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Release:	36
Codename:	ThirtySix

I just tried updating all the flatpaks, there were outdated runtimes, and ran flatpak repair, and still got the same error message.

It looks like a python 3.9 error. I notice python version incompatibilities cause errors quite frequently, might just want to stick a copy of tested python version in the flatpak going forward (?)

Hope this report helps. Thanks for everything!

[gombosg]

Hey! Flatpak is running for me on F36. Same version. @averyfreeman are you still experiencing this issue?

BTW now that upstream is not dead but maintained, we can think about unretiring the RPM package.

[nekohayo]

@averyfreeman could your issue be #683 by any chance?

@gombosg for the Fedora RPM packaging, we'd be happy to see that happen, see also the work that some people had started in #709, maybe you can help there?

[averyfreeman]

Nope, I had uninstalled it because I couldn't get through startup. I just installed it again as a user flatpak from flathub, same error:

**Context:** Startup

```python-traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/gtk/application.py", line 110, in do_startup
    for backend_dic in BackendFactory().get_saved_backends_list():
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/backends/__init__.py", line 143, in get_saved_backends_list

I noticed I was having an issue opening remmina flatpak, too, which I hadn't in the past. Seemed to alleviate the problem by enabling access to system libraries. I'm on a new installation of F36 and have been installing all my flatpaks as user to make migrating easier.

Another thing I noticed is the system python version is 3.10 while GTG is looking for 3.9.

[averyfreeman]

Here's gmessages output in case that helps

org_gnome_GTG_G_MESSAGES_DEBUG_all_output.zip

[gombosg]

As an added info, my system Python version is 3.10.4, too, and GTG is working fine.

@averyfreeman let's rule out Python version issues:

• Run GTG
• While running flatpak enter org.gnome.GTG bash
• python --version
  For me it's 3.9.9!

If it's not Python version, then it can be some config reading isse? 🤔

[averyfreeman]

Sorry for lateness of reply, haven't been on GH in a while.

I'm really not sure tbh, I have a vanilla Fedora 36 installation, so there's nothing extraordinary I've done with the system that would suggest it should respond differently than anyone else's.

org.gnome.GTG is installed as user now, I've been moving flatpaks to user folder to prepare for cases of migration or disaster recovery, did not change issue.

I've run a general flatpak repair at least a few times since I opened this issue. Maybe there's a cache folder I can try and clean out somewhere? Or does flatpak repair do this? (I'm new to Fedora and flatpaks in general, so not familiar with how it works).

[nekohayo]

Hi @averyfreeman, I'm starting to suspect this might be the same issue as #845. Could you see if this has anything to do with your session keyring not being unlocked or being inaccessible somehow?

[averyfreeman]

Hi @averyfreeman, I'm starting to suspect this might be the same issue as #845. Could you see if this has anything to do with your session keyring not being unlocked or being inaccessible somehow?

Hello, sorry for the late reply. I have no idea why it would be related to my keyring being inaccessible when everything else but GTG works without issue.

I don't know much about the keyring, but I did notice permissions look pretty open:

$ ls -la /run/user/1000/keyring
total 0
drwx------  2 avery avery 120 Jul 28 01:37 .
drwx------ 22 avery avery 640 Jul 24 19:37 ..
srwxrwxr-x  1 avery avery   0 Jul 28 01:37 control
srwxrwxr-x  1 avery avery   0 Jul 28 01:37 pkcs11
srw-------  1 avery avery   0 Jul 24 18:59 .ssh
srwxrwxr-x  1 avery avery   0 Jul 28 01:37 ssh

I tried running gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login, went to another window and ran ps -A | grep gnome-keyring, and there were two instances of gnome-keyring-daemon running. Killed the one I started manually, and there was still one.

So, hopefully that answers your question a bit. I did some poking around inside the flatpak at the code referenced in the error, it looks to me like maybe it's related to the first-run file that's created, as I still had this file from a previous installation, but not the backends.conf. So, I had an old gtg_data.xml, but the backends.conf file that looks like it was created on first run.

I tried renaming gtg_data.xml to see if GTG would initialize a new copy, but I still get the same error.

I went through my tracks a bit before writing this synopsis. Not sure if this data is particularly relevant, but I thought I'd include it just in case:

[earlier]
I will invest some time in helping, I hope it's fruitful. I thought I should start by making sure I am operating an up-to-date flatpak:

$ flatpak -v update org.gnome.GTG
F: No installations directory in /etc/flatpak/installations.d. Skipping
F: Opening system flatpak installation at path /var/lib/flatpak
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/avery/.local/share/flatpak
Looking for updates…
F: Fetching summary index file for remote ‘flathub’
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summary.idx using libsoup
F: Received 2737 bytes
F: Loaded indexed summary file 0e6169d3ff06d8c17baf833288397747036ec3a5007634e051bc82ae09ae8d4b from cache for remote ‘flathub’
F: Transaction: update flathub:app/org.gnome.GTG/x86_64/stable[*]
F: Looking for remote metadata updates for flathub
F: marking op update:app/org.gnome.GTG/x86_64/stable resolved to 286857f5d6032c21865dd85860ca9e68434ae2473977f45588cdc99233f2326c
F: Updating dependent runtime org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41
F: Transaction: update flathub:runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41[$old]
F: marking op update:runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/41 resolved to 21229f01c7a6d263cb1a86d04368daf669a5d957b74436c910c83205cebf8bb0
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/41[/en]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/21.08[*]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Adwaita-dark/x86_64/3.22[*]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.adw-gtk3-dark/x86_64/3.22[*]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.adw-gtk3/x86_64/3.22[*]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel/x86_64/21.08[*]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264/x86_64/2.0[*]
F: Transaction: install/update flathub:runtime/org.gnome.GTG.Locale/x86_64/stable[/en]
F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.gnome.GTG.Locale/x86_64/stable resolved to 457a5ccc474b2536b56645dcdbda15c6cb22dc3f87b030f06d7d3257bde8b1e6
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F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel/x86_64/21.08 resolved to 220a09d5db7ea43c8dad1d3f6ab564832ebaf3201650ba03820d2848215894b3
F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.adw-gtk3/x86_64/3.22 resolved to 80ae432cb1a5928365088ce724751b0e8a7767b654608575c3cc647adce5f073
F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.adw-gtk3-dark/x86_64/3.22 resolved to 71e861fa805f26355471a89f8f8cbb56c811675f7d0cea5ca6dea245fee70957
F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Adwaita-dark/x86_64/3.22 resolved to 7c055bbc0667524f34ca715abd67473480de93a176797a8fe4b7f7a71c4e3324
F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/21.08 resolved to c8f81b502d8a867a532896330988485f68e94a2cbb4c26ae98b1b2811b566f7e
F: marking op install/update:runtime/org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/41 resolved to 92a060a3f481f72f34efadbdfdfe8ad7336e539598a43ba33b857771767278f8
Nothing to do.

$ flatpak run org.gnome.GTG --version
GTG (Getting Things GNOME!) v0.6
Using python 3.9.9 (main, Nov 10 2011, 15:00:00) 
[GCC 11.3.0]
For more information: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GTG

Looks good. So then, let's just run it and see if invoking it still produces the error on this new version:

$ flatpak run org.gnome.GTG

2022-07-28 00:16:38,883 - ERROR - application:do_startup:135 - Exception during startup
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/gtk/application.py", line 110, in do_startup
    for backend_dic in BackendFactory().get_saved_backends_list():
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/backends/__init__.py", line 143, in get_saved_backends_list
    module = self.get_backend(settings.get('module'))
  File "/app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/core/config.py", line 164, in get
    raise ValueError(
ValueError: No valid configuration value or default value was found for %s in %s

I had not been aware of any manual configuration required outside of the direction of the GUI for GTG. Therefore, any changes in the config files are the result of my use of the GUI, or during installation.

Here's these configuration files for your reference:

$ pwd; ls -la; for i in *.conf; do \cat $i; done

/home/avery/.var/app/org.gnome.GTG/config/gtg

total 12
drwxr-xr-x. 1 avery avery  62 Apr  7 17:01 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 avery avery  14 May 23 15:19 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 avery avery 432 Apr  8 13:16 backends.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 avery avery 339 Apr  8 13:16 gtg.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 avery avery 864 Apr  7 17:12 tasks.conf

# backends.conf:

[backend_localfile]
first_run = True
default = True
human-friendly-name = 
user = 
pid = f6efc2d3-18f3-48ed-b3e4-0c202852822c
enabled = True
attached-tags = gtg-tags-all
path = gtg_data.xml
module = backend_localfile

[backend_caldav]
first_run = True
default = False
human-friendly-name = 
user = 
pid = c04bb4bd-233c-4f00-b29e-369da34e04ff
enabled = False
attached-tags = gtg-tags-all
period = 15
username = insert your username

# gtg.conf:

[browser]
tasklist_sort_column = 2
tasklist_sort_order = 1
width = 812
height = 513
maximized = False
x_pos = 23
y_pos = 15
opened_tasks = 
view = active
tag_pane = True
collapsed_tasks = ('33d9760d-2e07-4ae4-9c02-1fcdaeb46325',)

[plugins]
disabled = dev_console,export,gamify,hamster,send_email,untouched_tasks,urgency_color
enabled = 

# tasks.conf - truncated because looks irrelevant, but the entries are all like this:

[e656e527-fc45-4196-ba96-7c99f7555aa9]
position = 23,15
size = 597,400
. . . 

org.gnome.GTG did work when I first tried it, but I uninstalled and re-installed it when it started producing these errors and failing to run, so I am guessing the previous configuration didn't survive the uninstallation.

Not sure why any of the .conf files would produce configuration error if they are from a fresh install.

Poking around inside the flatpak:

[📦 org.gnome.GTG backends]$ cat -n /app/lib/python3.9/site-packages/GTG/core/config.py
     1	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     2	# Getting Things GNOME! - a personal organizer for the GNOME desktop
     3	# Copyright (c) 2008-2015 - Lionel Dricot & Bertrand Rousseau
     4	#
     5	# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
     6	# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
     7	# Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
     8	# version.
     9	#
    10	# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    11	# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
    12	# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
    13	# details.
    14	#
    15	# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
    16	# this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
    17	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    18	
    19	"""
    20	Classes responsible for handling user configuration
    21	"""
    22	
    23	import configparser
    24	import os
    25	import re
    26	import logging
    27	
    28	from GTG.core.dirs import CONFIG_DIR
    29	
    30	log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
    31	DEFAULTS = {
    32	    'browser': {
    33	        "bg_color_enable": True,
    34	        "contents_preview_enable": False,
    35	        'tag_pane': False,
    36	        "sidebar_width": 120,
    37	        'collapsed_tasks': [],
    38	        'expanded_tags': [],
    39	        'view': 'default',
    40	        "opened_tasks": [],
    41	        'width': 400,
    42	        'height': 400,
    43	        'x_pos': 10,
    44	        'y_pos': 10,
    45	        'tasklist_sort_column': 5,
    46	        'tasklist_sort_order': 1,
    47	        "font_name": "",
    48	        'hour': "00",
    49	        'min': "00",
    50	        'autoclean': True,
    51	        'autoclean_days': 30,
    52	        'dark_mode': False,
    53	        'maximized': False,
    54	    },
    55	    'tag_editor': {
    56	        "custom_colors": [],
    57	    },
    58	    'plugins': {
    59	        "enabled": [],
    60	        "disabled": [],
    61	    },
    62	    'task': {
    63	        'position': [],
    64	        'size': [],
    65	    },
    66	    'backend': {}
    67	}
    68	
    69	
    70	def open_config_file(config_file):
    71	    """ Opens config file and makes additional checks
    72	
    73	    Creates config file if it doesn't exist and makes sure it is readable and
    74	    writable by user. That prevents surprise when user is not able to save
    75	    configuration when exiting the app.
    76	    """
    77	    dirname = os.path.dirname(config_file)
    78	    if not os.path.exists(dirname):
    79	        os.makedirs(dirname)
    80	    if not os.path.exists(config_file):
    81	        open(config_file, "w").close()
    82	    if not os.access(config_file, os.R_OK | os.W_OK):
    83	        raise Exception("File " + config_file + " is a configuration file "
    84	                        "for gtg, but it cannot be read or written. "
    85	                        "Please check it")
    86	    config = configparser.ConfigParser()
    87	    try:
    88	        config.read(config_file)
    89	    except configparser.Error as e:
    90	        log.warning("Problem with opening file %s: %s", config_file, e)
    91	    return config
    92	
    93	
    94	class SectionConfig():
    95	    """ Configuration only for a section (system or a task) """
    96	
    97	    def __init__(self, section_name, section, defaults, save_function):
    98	        """ Initiatizes section config:
    99	
   100	         - section_name: name for writing error logs
   101	         - section: section of the config handled by this object
   102	         - defaults: dictionary of default values
   103	         - save_function: function to be called to save changes (this function
   104	                          needs to save the whole config)
   105	        """
   106	        self._section_name = section_name
   107	        self._section = section
   108	        self._defaults = defaults
   109	        self._save_function = save_function
   110	
   111	    def _getlist(self, option):
   112	        """ Parses string representation of list from configuration
   113	
   114	        List can't contain an empty value as those are skipped over,
   115	        e.g. "a, ,b" is parsed as ['a', 'b'].
   116	
   117	        Accepted formats:
   118	         - "('a', 'b'),('c','d','e')" => ["('a', 'b')", "('c','d','e')"]
   119	         - "a, b" => ['a', 'b']
   120	        """
   121	        raw = self._section.get(option)
   122	        if not raw:
   123	            return None
   124	
   125	        # Match tuples in format "('string1', 'string2', ...)"
   126	        values = re.findall(r'\(.*?\)', raw)
   127	        if not values:
   128	            # It only normal list
   129	            values = raw.split(',')
   130	
   131	        return [item.strip() for item in values if item]
   132	
   133	    def _type_function(self, default_value):
   134	        """ Returns function that returns correct type of value """
   135	        default_type = type(default_value)
   136	        if default_type in (list, tuple):
   137	            return self._getlist
   138	        elif default_type == int:
   139	            return self._section.getint
   140	        elif default_type == bool:
   141	            return self._section.getboolean
   142	        else:
   143	            return self._section.get
   144	
   145	    def get(self, option):
   146	        """ Get option from configuration.
   147	
   148	        If the option is not specified in the configuration or is of invalid
   149	        type, return default value. If there is no default value,
   150	        None is returned
   151	        """
   152	        default_value = self._defaults.get(option)
   153	        get_function = self._type_function(default_value)
   154	
   155	        try:
   156	            value = get_function(option)
   157	        except ValueError as error:
   158	            value = None
   159	            log.warning('Invalid configuration value "%s" for %s in %s: %s',
   160	                        self._section.get(option), option, self._section_name,
   161	                        error)
   162	
   163	        if value is None and default_value is None:
   164	            raise ValueError(
   165	                'No valid configuration value or default value was '
   166	                'found for %s in %s'.format(option, self._section_name))
   167	        elif value is None:
   168	            return default_value
   169	        else:
   170	            return value
   171	
   172	    def set(self, option, value):
   173	        if type(value) in (list, tuple):
   174	            value = ','.join(str(item) for item in value)
   175	        else:
   176	            value = str(value)
   177	        self._section[option] = value
   178	        # Immediately save the configuration
   179	        self.save()
   180	
   181	    def save(self):
   182	        self._save_function()
   183	
   184	
   185	class CoreConfig():
   186	    """ Class holding configuration to all systems and tasks """
   187	
   188	    def __init__(self):
   189	        self._conf_path = os.path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'gtg.conf')
   190	        self._conf = open_config_file(self._conf_path)
   191	
   192	        self._task_conf_path = os.path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'tasks.conf')
   193	        self._task_conf = open_config_file(self._task_conf_path)
   194	
   195	        self._backends_conf_path = os.path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'backends.conf')
   196	        self._backends_conf = open_config_file(self._backends_conf_path)
   197	
   198	    def save_gtg_config(self):
   199	        self._conf.write(open(self._conf_path, 'w'))
   200	
   201	    def save_task_config(self):
   202	        self._task_conf.write(open(self._task_conf_path, 'w'))
   203	
   204	    def save_backends_config(self):
   205	        self._backends_conf.write(open(self._backends_conf_path, 'w'))
   206	
   207	    def get_subconfig(self, name):
   208	        """ Returns configuration object for special section of config """
   209	        if name not in self._conf:
   210	            self._conf.add_section(name)
   211	        defaults = DEFAULTS.get(name, dict())
   212	        return SectionConfig(
   213	            name, self._conf[name], defaults, self.save_gtg_config)
   214	
   215	    def get_task_config(self, task_id):
   216	        if task_id not in self._task_conf:
   217	            self._task_conf.add_section(task_id)
   218	        return SectionConfig(
   219	            f'Task {task_id}',
   220	            self._task_conf[task_id],
   221	            DEFAULTS['task'],
   222	            self.save_task_config)
   223	
   224	    def get_all_backends(self):
   225	        return self._backends_conf.sections()
   226	
   227	    def get_backend_config(self, backend):
   228	        if backend not in self._backends_conf:
   229	            self._backends_conf.add_section(backend)
   230	
   231	        return SectionConfig(
   232	            f'Backend {backend}',
   233	            self._backends_conf[backend],
   234	            DEFAULTS['backend'],
   235	            self.save_backends_config)
[📦 org.gnome.GTG backends]$ 

[Neui]

Inside the backends.conf under the [backend_caldav] line can you add a new line with module = backend_caldav and try again?

Actually, it seems stuff like server and username hasn't been filled out yet, so it should be no problem to remove the entire [backend_caldav] section in backends.conf:

[backend_caldav]
# module = backend_caldav (if you have inserted this)
first_run = True
default = False
human-friendly-name = 
user = 
pid = c04bb4bd-233c-4f00-b29e-369da34e04ff
enabled = False
attached-tags = gtg-tags-all
period = 15
username = insert your username

[nekohayo]

Duplicate of #845