[phenixbb] an installation issue

Dmitry Semchonok semchonok at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 13:39:42 PDT 2023


Dear colleagues,

Installing phenix of WSL I received an error -


david at DESKTOP-NMD1JP9:~$ phenix
[1] 402
david at DESKTOP-NMD1JP9:~$ Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 961, in _excepthook
    Error.show_exception_dialog(type, value, traceback)
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/Error.py", line 76, in show_exception_dialog
    if (app.bug_timer.IsRunning() is False):
AttributeError: 'PhenixApp' object has no attribute 'bug_timer'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py", line 34, in <module>
    run(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py", line 28, in run
    wxapp = App.PhenixApp(args)
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 84, in __init__
    wx.App.__init__(self, 0)
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8628, in __init__
    self._BootstrapApp()
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8196, in _BootstrapApp
    return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 118, in OnInit
    show_splash_screen(timeout=2000)
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 1015, in show_splash_screen
    dlg,-1,citations.format_citation(citations.citations_db.get("phenix")))
  File "/usr/local/phenix-1.21rc1-5130/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_controls.py", line 997, in __init__
    _controls_.StaticText_swiginit(self,_controls_.new_StaticText(*args, **kwargs))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)




  1.  it is a new Desktop and WSL;
  2.  Additionally, I installed python
  3.  I run sudo locale-gen "en_GB.UTF-8"  (but maybe there is a command to check if it works properly)
  4.  on my laptop WSL phenix works nicely

Any advice?

Many thanks.

Sincerely,
Dmitry
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