Re: gnucash/finance-quote broken again? (fwd)

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

(sending to mailing list)

I just rebuilt all my packages from scratch the usual mksandbox way
and gnucash won't start.  It displays the "splash box" and then hangs
when initializing finance-quote.  The following errors appear in my
.xsession-errors after I destroy the gnucash splash window.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/pkg/share/gnucash/python/init.py", line 6, in <module>
    from gi import require_version
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

FWIW, I tried to remove the installed package, rebuild with PKGOPTIONS
set to -gnucash-finance-quote (to disable), and re-install.  It didn't
help - still hangs during initialization.

And, loooking at the init.py file, it starts with

	import sys
	from gnucash import *
	from gnucash import _sw_app_utils
	from gnucash import _sw_core_utils
	from gnucash._sw_core_utils import gnc_prefs_is_extra_enabled, gnc_prefs_is_debugging_enabled
 6 >>>	from gi import require_version
	require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
	from gi.repository import Gtk
	import os

	sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(__file__))
	...

There are no further references to gi in the file.

The init.py is time-stamped from August 2021 so hasn't been updated
for a while, and the same file would havve been used whether or not
the finance-quote option was enabled.

Any clues on how to fix?   :)


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