[solved] apt-notifier will not start

[Member LS650V]

Installed apt-notifier using the Package Installer and uncommented “apt-notifier &” line in ~/.desktop-session/startup.

~/.desktop-session/current.log indicates:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/apt-notifier/modules/apt-notifier.py", line 21, in <module>
    from distutils import spawn
ImportError: cannot import name 'spawn' from 'distutils' (/usr/lib/python3.9/distutils/__init__.py)

$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 Desktop: IceWM 2.9.1 
           Distro: antiX-21_386-base Grup Yorum 31 October 2021 
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron 6000 v: N/A serial: <superuser required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0J5165 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A09 date: 09/28/2005 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.1 Wh (96.9%) condition: 42.4/73.3 Wh (57.8%) 
CPU:       Info: Single Core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           Speed: 1600 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speed (MHz): 1: 1600 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.3.5 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW AC97 Audio driver: snd_intel8x0 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-279-antix.1-486-smp running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44 
           Device-2: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200 
           IF: eth1 state: up mac: 00:0e:35:ea:f2:a4 
           IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: 00:11:43:6f:f8:b3 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb 
           Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:11 bt-v: 2.1 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 37.26 GiB used: 15.2 GiB (40.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST940815A size: 37.26 GiB 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.99 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2602 
Info:      Processes: 126 Uptime: 8m Memory: 1.96 GiB used: 414.9 MiB (20.7%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06 

How can I fix this?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by LS650V.
• This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by LS650V.
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[Member PPC]

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I’m away from my test antiX 21 virtual machine- it’s probably some kind of problem with apt-notifier, that seems the version being used is not compatible with antiX 21 or requires a dependency that’s not availble…
Please provide some additional info that may help folks here to find out what the problem is:
– How did you install apt-notifier? Did you use the Package Installer or Synaptic/apt?
– What version of antiX 21 are you using? 32/64 bit? Full? Runit?

As a GUI workaround, you can use antiX updater to check for updates- it’s not automatic, like apt-notifier, but it runs on a single click…

P.

[Moderator caprea]

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python3-distutils
would be a candidate what is might missing here.

[Member LS650V]

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python3-distutils is not shown as a Depends or Recommends. I did install it using apt-get and apt-notifier now works. Thankyou for your help!

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