Dtyjlui

The authentication window pops-up but then I'm getting a bunch of errors (in the console) and nothing happens. Looked up similar issues on the Internet and tried the following:

• updating the OS


• installing: python-gobject, python-gi, dev-tools

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/gufw.py", line 21, in 

    from gufw.view.gufw  import Gufw

  File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/gufw/view/gufw.py", line 18, in 

    import gi

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 42, in 

    from . import _gi

ImportError: cannot import name '_gi'

Error in sys.excepthook:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 63, in apport_excepthook

    from apport.fileutils import likely_packaged, get_recent_crashes

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/__init__.py", line 5, in 

    from apport.report import Report

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 30, in 

    import apport.fileutils

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/fileutils.py", line 23, in 

    from apport.packaging_impl import impl as packaging

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 24, in 

    import apt

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/__init__.py", line 23, in 

    import apt_pkg

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt_pkg'



Original exception was:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/gufw.py", line 21, in 

    from gufw.view.gufw  import Gufw

  File "/usr/share/gufw/gufw/gufw/view/gufw.py", line 18, in 

    import gi

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 42, in 

    from . import _gi

ImportError: cannot import name '_gi'

Not sure what, if anything you might have done to cause this. Upgrade Ubuntu? How did you install UFW? From the repos?

At any rate , that is sort of a non-specific error and might occur with other packages as well.

As a first step try updating (“dist-upgrade”) to see if you have outdated or held packages.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -f

If that fails as a second step try re-installing python-apt

See https://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/python-apt

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-apt

You could shorten those two commands, but I hope it is more clear to demonstrate the reinstallation of python-apt.

I've encountered the same problem, and it's really not easy to find a good fix (they're really very few results on google), so my solution is to fully reinstall pygobject in accordance with https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html

sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0  

sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev gcc libcairo2-dev pkg-config python3-dev gir1.2-gtk-3.0  

pip3 install pycairo  

pip3 install PyGObject

(You need to apt install python3-pip beforehand.)

It worked perfectly for me.