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Bug 1701691 - Anki Startup Error
Summary: Anki Startup Error
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anki
Version: 30
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Drake-Brockman
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1612847
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-04-20 19:17 UTC by aziz
Modified: 2019-07-06 10:52 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-07-06 10:52:11 UTC
Type: Bug
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Error message. Anki terminates after clicking OK. (69.52 KB, image/png)
2019-04-20 19:17 UTC, aziz 		no flags Details
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Description aziz 2019-04-20 19:17:24 UTC 
Created attachment 1556708 [details]
Error message. Anki terminates after clicking OK.

Description of problem:

Anki doesn't open when run. Instead it gives an error message and terminates. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Name         : anki
Version      : 2.0.52
Release      : 3.fc30
Architecture : noarch
Size         : 9.2 M
Source       : anki-2.0.52-3.fc30.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : fedora

How reproducible:

Install Anki and run.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Anki using DNF.
2. Run Anki.

Actual results:

The following error message shows up:

""""
Please notify support of this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/__init__.py", line 194, in run
    _run()
  File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/__init__.py", line 246, in _run
    pm = ProfileManager(opts.base, opts.profile)
  File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/profiles.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.maybeMigrateFolder()
  File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/profiles.py", line 125, in maybeMigrateFolder
    oldBase = self._oldFolderLocation()
  File "/usr/share/anki/aqt/profiles.py", line 122, in _oldFolderLocation
    return os.path.join(loc, "Anki")
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 70, in join
    elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
AttributeError: 'QString' object has no attribute 'endswith'
""""

Anki terminates after clicking OK.

Expected results:

Anki runs properly.
Comment 1 Victor Schulz 2019-05-02 17:27:15 UTC 
My machine is also affected by this.

I don't understand exactly why this bug showed up after the upgrade to Fedora 30, but I found a workaround:

1. Edit the file /usr/share/anki/aqt/profiles.py
2. Replace line 122 with:
   return os.path.join(unicode(loc), "Anki")

This reference may help understand what is going on:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37263086/attributeerror-qstring-object-has-no-attribute-rfind
Comment 2 aziz 2019-05-03 04:50:59 UTC 
That fix made it work on my machine.
Comment 3 Victor Schulz 2019-05-03 05:43:55 UTC 
@aziz, could you kindly check if the bar on Anki main window with the labels "Decks", "Add" and "Browse" is working for you when you click on them?
Comment 4 aziz 2019-05-03 17:09:51 UTC 
"Decks", "Add" and "Browse" don't work. The 2 side buttons: statistics and sync also don't work.
Comment 5 Victor Schulz 2019-05-03 17:21:48 UTC 
I am also having the exact same problem here. As Anki is pretty much unusable in the current state, version 2.0.x is currently unsupported, and the official website recommends the 2.1.x version, I believe it is time to consider upgrading the repository package to the newer version.
Comment 6 aziz 2019-05-03 17:49:24 UTC 
I agree.
Comment 7 Christian Krause 2019-05-03 17:50:08 UTC 
A licensing issue was blocking anki-2.1.x so far (please see bug #1612847 for more details). The upstream developer has updated the description of the various used licenses in anki's source code in the meantime, so I hope this removed the last roadblock.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-06-07 10:12:54 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-d45f5e8729 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-d45f5e8729
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-06-07 10:13:55 UTC 
FEDORA-2019-5778ae630c has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5778ae630c
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-06-08 00:51:04 UTC 
anki-2.1.13-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-d45f5e8729
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-06-08 03:00:35 UTC 
anki-2.1.13-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-5778ae630c
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2019-06-17 18:27:52 UTC 
anki-2.1.13-1.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2019-06-17 23:33:21 UTC 
anki-2.1.13-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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