Bleachbit as root fails to launch

[Qqmike]

No one else? Maybe not many people are using Bleachbit? This is in 14.04
If you do find the issue, I hope you'll post it at the bug place, it would help:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bleachbit/+bug/1377719

[Qqmike]

Vinny, I tried your formula. It worked to run Bleachbit as admin (after I had run it as user prior to logging out). Then I ran as user. Then I tried as admin again, and it failed. Your formula is a lot of monkey motion! Of course, we were just testing .Xauthority. But Ctrl-Alt-Del works to reset everything, as does a re-boot PITA). While at the terminal, for the life of me, I could not remember remove! I guessed a lot of man's, until man rm! rm .Xauthority. I better re-read someone's Konsole how-to.

Why do some with my specs have this, and some with my specs do not?!

[Qqmike]

Yes, just a warning. And the more serious one in Post #3, Can't open X Display.

The bug report is posted; did it for 14.04, but it wouldn't hurt to add your name/comment to the list for 14.10, if you have time.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bleachbit/+bug/1377719

"Makes me think it is deleting a cache or temp file that it would use, or something like that" -- Yeah, good idea; the user wipes out what is needed next by admin.

[claydoh]

Originally, I also had Bleachbit 1.0-1, installed from Muon. You can also go to the Bleachbit site and get the deb files for other versions, click to download, get the Open the deb installer dialog, and that's it. It will then show up in your Muon with the newly installed version #. NONE of the versions worked for me, though. We have the same i386, KDE, and 14.04 Wonder why my X is messed up (or whatever, see that error message above)?
Thanks for checking. Whatthefunk also said he's got this problem, though ...

Are talking about this:

[COLOR=#333333]~$ bleachbit[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333]info: starting BleachBit version 1.2[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333]/usr/share/bleachbit/Unix.py:44: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/usr/share/gnome': missing __init__.py[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333]import gnome.vfs[/COLOR]

Those are just warnings, and not errors. Heck even "warning" is too strong a word. You can usually ignore warnings, it is the errors you need to worry about.


My hypothesis is that bleachbit may be deleting something in the user's dir that is causing this, considering the fact that the program is running as the same user for both normal and admin usage. I can't reproduce this on my 14.04 box, it ll works just fine no matter when and which order I run Bleachbit as user or admin. Now, on my 14.10 box running kf5, et al, when I run it as user, afterward I can't use krunner, edit the kmenu, an a couple other things I forgot to note, as well as being unable to run bleachbit as admin. Until I log out and back in. Makes me think it is deleting a cache or temp file that it would use, or something like that.

[vinnywright]

did you ever try loging out and switching to a TTY (ctrl+alt+F6) loging in and deleting your .Xauthority >> log out ,,ctrl+alt+F7 and log in to the GUI and try Bleachbit again ?

I saw that you mentioned it at 1 point .

VINNY

[Qqmike]

Originally, I also had Bleachbit 1.0-1, installed from Muon. You can also go to the Bleachbit site and get the deb files for other versions, click to download, get the Open the deb installer dialog, and that's it. It will then show up in your Muon with the newly installed version #. NONE of the versions worked for me, though. We have the same i386, KDE, and 14.04 Wonder why my X is messed up (or whatever, see that error message above)?
Thanks for checking. Whatthefunk also said he's got this problem, though ...

[vinnywright]

not having this prob @hear Kubuntu-14.04 KDE-4.13.3 Bleachbit-1.0-1 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the 1.0 is what I got from muon , I do not see a 1.1, 1.2 or 1.4 ??

VINNY

[Qqmike]

No, my 14.04 was a super clean, full install of 14.04 (starting with fresh partitioning with GParted Live CD).

[Snowhog]

You said this is a new install of 14.04. Did you keep your user /home directory from 12.04? If 'yes', and you installed Bleachbit for 14.04, the existing .config/bleachbit/bleachbit.ini file wasn't overwritten.

[Qqmike]

And, in 14.04, there's the same problem with an even older version (offered through Muon), version 1.1.
What a puzzle for a non-programmer!


Anyone else running:
Kubuntu 14.04
32-bit
KDE 4.13.3

and testing Bleachbit 1.1, 1.2, or 1.4?

[Qqmike]

Nope, in 14.04 there's the same problem with the older version 1.2 ...

[Qqmike]

This problem occurs for me in 14.04. It runs correctly in 12.04.
That said, I ran Bleachbit as user in 12.04 and did get the same message as I get in 14.04 running as user, as posted in #15 above:

~$ bleachbit
info: starting BleachBit version 1.2
/usr/share/bleachbit/Unix.py:44: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/usr/share/gnome': missing __init__.py
import gnome.vfs

And then ... it runs fine as user.

(Of course, running kdesudo bleachbit in 12.04 gives no problems.)

I do notice the Bleachbit version in 12.04: 1.2; whereas in 14.04 it is 1.4.
Maybe I can get 1.2 in 14.04, and will check into that. (Posting from 12.04 at the moment.)

[Qqmike]

Yes, Bleachbit--as user and as admin--both appear in the K-Menu. I only ran it from Konsole to see any messages that might appear--and messages did appear for me!

[claydoh]

Are we not seeing the bleachbit (run as root) entry in the Kmenu like I am?

[Snowhog]

I can't answer that. Likely. Muon Package Manager is good, but apt from the console is more informative. One of Muon Package Managers 'faults' is that it doesn't integrate (as well) the checking of package conflicts apt does from the console. I think Muon Package Manager uses apt-get update instead of apt-get dist-upgrade.