It's not working for me either. Is gufw written in python? I know python was updated to 3.6 today, breaking a few packages till they get updated for 3.6. On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Alonzo Gomez via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > Gufw was working (xorg only, not under Wayland) until today. Today, I > did a large update of multiple packages - about 240 Mb worth. After > that Gufw no longer starts. > > Symptoms: > When gufw icon is clicked, the authentication window pops up as usual, > requesting the user password. When entered incorrectly, the window > just says incorrect, try again. When entered correctly, the > authentication window disappears, and nothing further happens. > > Same behavior using Linux, Linux-lts, and Linux-grsec kernels. > > Note: Gufw always started correctly under xorg (chosen at GDM login). > Gufw has never worked, just displayed the symptoms stated above, under > Wayland (chosen at GDM login). > > Since the update today involved many packages, I don't know which > one(s) are the culprit(s). The updated packages seemed to be mainly > about GTK and Python. All dependencies seem okay, and I did remove and > reinstall Gufw. Same results. (Python-gobject is intalled and up to > date). > > I searched online, in the wiki, in the forums, and in the Arch bug > reports, all to no avail. I did come across some old reports of > similar problems, possibly where GTK was responsible. > > Ufw is and has been working fine, enabled and autostarted under systemd. > I can't see anything suspect in dmesg or journalctl, but might not > recognize it if I did. > > Setup: > Arch x86-64 > Gnome 3 > Grub2 > machine is UEFI-capable, but using bios (MBR). > 1 root partition (EXT4) > 1 swap partition > > Contents of /var/log/gufw.log: > [12/29/2016 10:47:41 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw --force delete 1 > [12/29/2016 10:47:32 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw --force delete 2 > [12/29/2016 10:46:15 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw deny in proto tcp from any to any > port 23 > [10/31/2016 09:41:17 PM] Confirm Delete Dialog: Enabled > > I don't have 6 months to learn to use ufw without a gui. > > Any magic solution? > > If not - I'm so disgusted with ufw on Arch - can I just remove gufw, > ufw, and ufw from systemctl, and then install firewalld. If so, will > the existing iptables configuration be overwritten automatically, or > would it have to be somehow purged manually? > > Note: I have not filed a bug report yet. I wanted to see if it was > really a bug, or a PEBKAC error. >
