It seems there is a dependency for tl-startup-bg that isn't verified by tl-setup, namely six. I get this on a RHEL 7 system that was upgraded: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/opt/thinlinc/libexec/tl-startup-bg", line 24, in <module> > from thinlinc . Xlib import display , X > File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/Xlib/display.py", line 26, in <module> > from six import create_unbound_method > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'six'
Installing the package "python36-six" from EPEL 7 helps. I added a Platform Specific Note for this: https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/docs/platforms/redhat/
Created attachment 1157 [details] Screenshot showing the broken background in RHEL 7
This bug is a regression from commit r40374 for bug 7949 where it was missed that python-xlib has python-six as a requirement. Unfortunately, the project doesn't list the package as a requirement here: https://pypi.org/project/python-xlib/ You have to look in the source tree: https://github.com/python-xlib/python-xlib/blob/master/requirements.txt
It is unclear presently if this package causes a problem on other platforms. The platforms we tested as part of the 4.15.0 release were Fedora 38, RHEL 9, SLES 15, and Ubuntu 22.04. Since the issue wasn't discovered on any of those platforms, it is likely they have python3-six installed by default. Notes: * RHEL 7 has python-six installed, the same package but for Python 2, it seems (?). * The package in EPEL 7 is called "python36-six", similar to the naming for python36-gobject for example. * The package on Fedora 38 is called "python3-six"
The package in question is described like this: > Six provides simple utilities for wrapping over differences between Python 2 > and Python 3. It is intended to support codebases that work on both Python 2 > and 3 without modification. six consists of only one Python file, so it is > painless to copy into a project. From this description, I see two likely paths forward: A. Modify the python-xlib we include, to no longer require python3-six. ThinLinc is only for Python 3. B. Include python3-six in ThinLinc. If it is only one file, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Found that SLES 12 doesn't have python3-six installed by default either, I see the same traceback as for RHEL 7 in comment 0 in xinit.log: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/opt/thinlinc/libexec/tl-startup-bg", line 24, in <module> > from thinlinc . Xlib import display , X > File "/opt/thinlinc/modules/thinlinc/Xlib/display.py", line 26, in <module> > from six import create_unbound_method > ImportError: No module named 'six' It is possible to install python3-six without adding any additional repo.
(In reply to Samuel Mannehed from comment #1) > Installing the package "python36-six" from EPEL 7 helps. I added a Platform > Specific Note for this: > > https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/docs/platforms/redhat/ I added a Platform Specific Note for SLES 12 as well: https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/docs/platforms/suse/
