Error while trying to launch app

[OxoGhost01]

Hey, i got this error while runny main.py :
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/utils/dirsnapshot.py", line 258, in
paths = [os.path.join(root, entry.name) for entry in self.listdir(root)]
^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'

[anetczuk]

Hello, what is your version of watchdog package (mine is 2.19)? It seems that it is problem of some versions of the package.

[OxoGhost01]

Hello, sorry had a problem with my OS (had to reinstall it from scratch 😭 ). My watchdog version seems to be 2.2.1-1 (i'm on debian btw).

[anetczuk]

I made a typo in previous comment. Proper working version is 2.1.9, so downgrade the watchdog below 2.2

[OxoGhost01]

Got the same error, so maybe watchdog isn't the problem :/

here is the entire return :

2025-02-04 21:42:01,497 DEBUG MainThread main:main [main.py:85] Starting the application
2025-02-04 21:42:01,497 DEBUG MainThread main:main [main.py:86] Logger log file: /home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/tmp/log/log.txt
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
2025-02-04 21:42:01,575 DEBUG MainThread clevokeyboardcontrol.gui.suspenddetector:setEnabled [suspenddetector.py:127] changing suspend detector state to True
2025-02-04 21:42:01,576 DEBUG MainThread clevokeyboardcontrol.gui.suspenddetector:start [suspenddetector.py:134] starting suspension detector
2025-02-04 21:42:01,576 DEBUG MainThread clevokeyboardcontrol.gui.suspenddetector:start [suspenddetector.py:42] starting suspension timer
2025-02-04 21:42:01,576 DEBUG MainThread clevokeyboardcontrol.screensaverwatcher.ScreenSaverWatcher:init [screensaverwatcher.py:131] registering device watcher: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight
2025-02-04 21:42:01,576 ERROR MainThread main:main [main.py:105] Exception occured
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/src/clevokeyboardcontrol/main.py", line 101, in main
exitCode = runApp(args)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/src/clevokeyboardcontrol/main.py", line 59, in runApp
window = MainWindow( driver )
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/src/clevokeyboardcontrol/gui/main_window.py", line 68, in init
self.screenSaverDetector = screensaverwatcher.ScreenSaverWatcher()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/src/clevokeyboardcontrol/screensaverwatcher.py", line 132, in init
watcher = DeviceWatcher( item_path, len(self.watchers) )
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/src/clevokeyboardcontrol/screensaverwatcher.py", line 63, in init
self.watcher.watch( self.driverPath, False )
File "/home/oxoghost/Documents/ClevoKeyboardControl/src/clevokeyboardcontrol/sysfswatchdog.py", line 62, in watch
self.observer.start()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/observers/api.py", line 262, in start
emitter.start()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/utils/init.py", line 93, in start
self.on_thread_start()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/observers/polling.py", line 76, in on_thread_start
self._snapshot = self._take_snapshot()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/observers/polling.py", line 72, in
self._take_snapshot = lambda: DirectorySnapshot(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/utils/dirsnapshot.py", line 251, in init
for p, st in self.walk(path):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/utils/dirsnapshot.py", line 258, in walk
paths = [os.path.join(root, entry.name) for entry in self.listdir(root)]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/watchdog/utils/dirsnapshot.py", line 258, in
paths = [os.path.join(root, entry.name) for entry in self.listdir(root)]
^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'

2025-02-04 21:42:01,578 INFO MainThread main:main [main.py:121] Execution time: 81.44092560ms

[anetczuk]

Have You downgraded the watchdog? Exception goes from watchog, because newer version (starting from 2.2) is not backward compatible with older one I used during implementation. Of course, better solution would be fixing it in ClevoKeyboardControl, but for now You can try with older version of watchdog.

[OxoGhost01]

That's weird, when i look for watchdog on internet, it says the latest is 6.0.0 ; the version i can install when i use apt is 2.2.1-1. And when i try sudo apt install python3-watchdog=2.1.9 it returns

Package python3-watchdog is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Version '2.1.9' for 'python3-watchdog' was not found

How can i downgrade it ?

[OxoGhost01]

I looked for it on debian tracker, but only these version are available :

[anetczuk]

Just updated project source code to work with watchdog modern version (6.0.0). Try to run with changes.