Error starting glances on Debian about glances HOT 9 CLOSED

Thx for the feedback.
Is it possible for you to try to run Glances from a Linux terminal, just to be sure that the isue is not PuTTY dependant.

Nicolas

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Not PuTTY dependant, I just took the machine out of the closet, connected keyboard/monitor to it and logged in on a normal terminal. I got exactly the same error message.

As this might be curses related: my version of curses is 5.7+20100313-5.

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No curses dependant, i use exaclty the same version of Curses on my Debian 6 server...

I just include the init instruction inside a 'try', can you try to download and test the HEAD version: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/tarball/master

Thx

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I see that the error mentions glances-1.3.5 , maybe you could try 1.3.6
I'v just installed succesfully glances-1.3.6 on a Debian Squeeze armv5tel (I just followed the README.md instructions)
my env is :
Python 2.6.6
curses 5.7.20100313
pystatgrab 0.5

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1.3.5 and 1.3.6 give exactly the same error message.

I have the same Python and curses; just to be sure I downloaded and installed pystatgrab 0.5 again, according to README.md instructions.

As for the HEAD version you asked me to test:
Be aware that I'm a newbee, no experience with Python and very limited experience with compiling stuff on Linux. The tarbal I downloaded did not have the configure stuff in it, so:
I unpacked 1.3.6 to a clean directory; then unpacked the tarbal and copied everything from that tarbal into the "1.3.6" directory - all so that I could use the configure script. Hope this way of working is OK for you.

Anyway, I configured and installed according to README.md and tested:

Warning: Can not set the cursor color appearance.s.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/glances.py", line 941, in <module> main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/glances.py", line 925, in main screen.update(stats)
  File "/usr/local/bin/glances.py", line 544, in update self.flush(stats)
  File "/usr/local/bin/glances.py", line 538, in flush self.display(stats)
  File "/usr/local/bin/glances.py", line 523, in display self.displayCaption()
  File "/usr/local/bin/glances.py", line 832, in displayCaption self.term_window.addnstr(max(self.caption_y, screen_y-1), self.caption_x,    _("   OK   "), 8, self.default_color)
  AttributeError: glancesScreen instance has no attribute 'default_color'

As I wrote, I have no experience with Python, but:
Original error message was about use_default_colors() giving an ERR;
New error message is about a missing attribute 'default_color'. Seems to be related... ;-)

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Interesting... It's look like Glances did not find a console compatible with colors...
I need to modifie the program to manage this configuration.

The strange think is that you did not have a colored console/terminal...

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Regarding the last comment:
Both with PuTTY and direct on the machine itself, I have a text based terminal with colors. For example, an 'ls -l' gives me a colorized directory listing.

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I just upload a new release in the HEAD. Can you test it ? It should displayed a B&W Glances version.

Netherthless id did not understand why Glances did not recognize your screen as color compliant...

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Checked, and exactly the same error as in my opening post (use_default_colors() returned ERR). Only the line numbers differ.

(and to be sure: I modified the version number in the src/glances.py file and checked after installation that I was indeed running the new release)

(also: a B&W version is a good workaround, but since I do have colors in my terminal, I prefer a full-colored glances...)

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