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

[gary%duzan.org@localhost]

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>
> 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'

   At first glance it looks like you need devel/py-gobject.

                               Gary Duzan



> 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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