Unable to launch terminator

[sujay1844]

Please try moving the terminator config out of the way to see if that solves the
problem. If it does, and you still want to open the bug, then please attach the
config file to the
issue.

I don't understand what this means. Do I just delete the config.py??

Describe the bug
Terminator doesn't launch. (as simple as that)
When I run terminator from another terminal emulator, the following text shows up.

  File "/usr/bin/terminator", line 48, in <module>
    import terminatorlib.optionparse
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib/optionparse.py", line 24, in <module>
    from . import config
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/terminatorlib/config.py", line 76, in <module>
    from validate import Validator
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'validate'

Desktop (please complete the following information):

System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.2 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Swift SF314-42 v: V1.08 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: RO model: Kona_RN v: V1.08 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.08 
  date: 10/14/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 30.5 Wh condition: 39.9/47.9 Wh (83%) 
  model: Murata AP18C4K status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 
  type: MCP arch: Zen 2 rev: 1 L2 cache: 3 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 28453 
  Speed: 1406 MHz min/max: 1400/2375 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1406 2: 1855 3: 1388 4: 1428 5: 1851 6: 1918 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu 
  v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.0 
  Device-2: Quanta HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-3:2 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: amdgpu 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.39.0 5.9.16-1-MANJARO LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 
  Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor 
  vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel 
  bus ID: 03:00.5 
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.6 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 104.24 GiB (21.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM512GDJTNI-82A0A 
  size: 476.94 GiB temp: 34.9 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 169.01 GiB used: 104.24 GiB (61.7%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 352 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.87 GiB used: 2 MiB (0.0%) 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 44.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 296 Uptime: 43m Memory: 7.21 GiB used: 4.56 GiB (63.2%) 
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.0.0 Packages: 1728 
  Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 inxi: 3.2.01

[njZhuMin]

As mentioned here, Manjaro 20.2 release introduced python 3.9 and may break python apps: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/unstable-update-2020-12-02-breakage-expected-python-3-9-nvidia-driver-simplification-kde-git/40829.

Got the same problem here. Just relax and wait for a rebuild for python 3.9. That's it.

[sujay1844]

damn it!! if I knew this was gonna happen, I wouldn't have updated to 20.2 itself. I just did that today and a bunch of python stuff are breaking since then.

[mattrose]

You just need to update python-configobj, this is a duplicate of #324 and #325 has some more details