Interesting, the Debian 12-bookworm was also not a fresh install from scratch but upgraded from Debian 11-bullseye (for other reasons: proprietary Nvidia legacy graphics cards driver). To me this looks like a Python 2.x problem? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21129020/how-to-fix-unicodedecodeerror-a... I hope the Phenix developers can help here? Christoph

I've just been trying to fix the same problem on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machine.  This is quite old, and has been updated several times from Ubuntu 16.04. Newer machines with a fresh 22.04 installation don't seem to have the same problem.

I tried fiddling with locales, which didn't help.

As far as I can tell, it seems to be related to the display of citations on the splash screen.

Regards,

Chris

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Hi,

I'm having problems running the current Phenix release (1.21.1-5286, but also earlier versions) on a fresh setup of Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm, kernel  6.1.0-23-amd64). Phenix binaries have been installed on an NFS share ("hd1"), hostname is "phe". This is the error output:

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phe:~> source /hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/phenix_env.csh phe:~> phenix Gtk-Message: 13:29:49.433: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 961, in _excepthook     Error.show_exception_dialog(type, value, traceback)   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/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 "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py", line 34, in <module>     run(sys.argv[1:])   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/build/../modules/phenix/wxGUI2/command_line/main.py", line 28, in run     wxapp = App.PhenixApp(args)   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 84, in __init__     wx.App.__init__(self, 0)   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/conda_base/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 8628, in __init__     self._BootstrapApp()   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/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 "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 118, in OnInit     show_splash_screen(timeout=2000)   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/modules/phenix/wxGUI2/App.py", line 1015, in show_splash_screen dlg,-1,citations.format_citation(citations.citations_db.get("phenix")))   File "/nfs/hd1/SOFT64/phenix-1.21.1-5286/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)

-------------------- Phenix does not run.

The ""canberra-gtk-module" was missing first, but installing it did not prevent the error. Any hint what could be wrong?

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