[chirp_users] Chirp will not start in Fedora 31 nor 32 b

[Joe Osborne]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 15:52 Tony Fuller <goldstar611 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I fully believe it is your latter guess, that Fedora 32 is missing
> python2, but I am not a Fedora user and am not familiar with their
> packaging. If you search the list archive you will see mails about Fedora
> (and other distros) removing python2 by default.
>
> I am testing Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) and although python2 is not
> installed by default, I can still get it by running apt install python2.
> Well just have to see if that still works next month when Canonical
> releases.
>
> Tony
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> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> *Subject:* [chirp_users] Chirp will not start in Fedora 31 nor 32 beta.
> Works fine in 30
>
>
> Since I am mostly confined to home due to the restrictions caused by
> the virus outbreak, I decided to up grade my Linux system from Fedora
> 30 to the current version which is Fedora 31.
>
> After the upgrade, Chirp and a Solitary game which is written in Python
> no longer worked so I upgraded to the new beta version Fedora 32. This
> morning, the developers released an update which included many Python
> changes which fixed the Solitary game but sadly, not Chirp.
>
> So, maybe the Chirp developers will have the answer. Here is the output
> of starting the 20200227 Chirp version with -v:
>
> [fred at m5a97r2 chirp-daily]$ ./chirpw -v
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./chirpw", line 20, in <module>
>     from chirp import chirp_common
>   File "/home/fred/chirp/chirp-daily/chirp/chirp_common.py", line 979
>     except errors.InvalidDataError, e:
>                                   ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [fred at m5a97r2 chirp-daily]$
>
> The ~/.chirp/debug.log entries are dated 2020-03-14 which are from a
> Chirp run before upgrading from Fedora 30.
>
> A bit of an aside:
> Is this a Python issue in Chirp or a missing Python 2 file in Fedora
> 32? I notice that when the command "dnf list --installed | grep python"
> there is a python3.x86_64, but the python2 file is named
> python27.x86_64. There is no python2.x86_64 file but there is in Fedora
> 30 a file python2.x86_64. Although, the which command shows both a
> /usr/bin/python3 and a /usr/bin/python2 file exist in Fedora 32. There
> are several link files in /usr/bin/ with python names that seem to be
> new additions and probably sort all that out though.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Fred
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> *From:* chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com <
> chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Fred <
> fredferickson at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 28, 2020 6:41:37 PM
> *To:* chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com <
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> *Subject:* [chirp_users] Chirp will not start in Fedora 31 nor 32 beta.
> Works fine in 30
>
>
> Since I am mostly confined to home due to the restrictions caused by
> the virus outbreak, I decided to up grade my Linux system from Fedora
> 30 to the current version which is Fedora 31.
>
> After the upgrade, Chirp and a Solitary game which is written in Python
> no longer worked so I upgraded to the new beta version Fedora 32. This
> morning, the developers released an update which included many Python
> changes which fixed the Solitary game but sadly, not Chirp.
>
> So, maybe the Chirp developers will have the answer. Here is the output
> of starting the 20200227 Chirp version with -v:
>
> [fred at m5a97r2 chirp-daily]$ ./chirpw -v
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./chirpw", line 20, in <module>
>     from chirp import chirp_common
>   File "/home/fred/chirp/chirp-daily/chirp/chirp_common.py", line 979
>     except errors.InvalidDataError, e:
>                                   ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [fred at m5a97r2 chirp-daily]$
>
> The ~/.chirp/debug.log entries are dated 2020-03-14 which are from a
> Chirp run before upgrading from Fedora 30.
>
> A bit of an aside:
> Is this a Python issue in Chirp or a missing Python 2 file in Fedora
> 32? I notice that when the command "dnf list --installed | grep python"
> there is a python3.x86_64, but the python2 file is named
> python27.x86_64. There is no python2.x86_64 file but there is in Fedora
> 30 a file python2.x86_64. Although, the which command shows both a
> /usr/bin/python3 and a /usr/bin/python2 file exist in Fedora 32. There
> are several link files in /usr/bin/ with python names that seem to be
> new additions and probably sort all that out though.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Fred
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> *From:* chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com <
> chirp_users-bounces at intrepid.danplanet.com> on behalf of Fred <
> fredferickson at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 28, 2020 6:41:37 PM
> *To:* chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com <
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
> *Subject:* [chirp_users] Chirp will not start in Fedora 31 nor 32 beta.
> Works fine in 30
>
>
> Since I am mostly confined to home due to the restrictions caused by
> the virus outbreak, I decided to up grade my Linux system from Fedora
> 30 to the current version which is Fedora 31.
>
> After the upgrade, Chirp and a Solitary game which is written in Python
> no longer worked so I upgraded to the new beta version Fedora 32. This
> morning, the developers released an update which included many Python
> changes which fixed the Solitary game but sadly, not Chirp.
>
> So, maybe the Chirp developers will have the answer. Here is the output
> of starting the 20200227 Chirp version with -v:
>
> [fred at m5a97r2 chirp-daily]$ ./chirpw -v
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./chirpw", line 20, in <module>
>     from chirp import chirp_common
>   File "/home/fred/chirp/chirp-daily/chirp/chirp_common.py", line 979
>     except errors.InvalidDataError, e:
>                                   ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> [fred at m5a97r2 chirp-daily]$
>
> The ~/.chirp/debug.log entries are dated 2020-03-14 which are from a
> Chirp run before upgrading from Fedora 30.
>
> A bit of an aside:
> Is this a Python issue in Chirp or a missing Python 2 file in Fedora
> 32? I notice that when the command "dnf list --installed | grep python"
> there is a python3.x86_64, but the python2 file is named
> python27.x86_64. There is no python2.x86_64 file but there is in Fedora
> 30 a file python2.x86_64. Although, the which command shows both a
> /usr/bin/python3 and a /usr/bin/python2 file exist in Fedora 32. There
> are several link files in /usr/bin/ with python names that seem to be
> new additions and probably sort all that out though.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Fred
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