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FAHControl crashes on Ubuntu 12.04.3 with Unity

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:26 am
by Bead_Hand
I joined just a few hours ago and am in the process of setting up on Ubuntu 12.04.3 with Unity desktop. I installed the 3 .deb packages as prescribed in the online installation guide. I used what the guide cals the "advanced, manual in a terminal" method to install the 3 packages and received no error messages/warnings so I assumed all was OK.

The FAHClient daemon appears to be running as I can view progress of a task/work unit in FAHViewer and top shows stuff that is obviously FAH stuff is running. The problem is that when I click the FAHControl icon in the dashboard (DASH Home) I get a popup dialogue saying FAHControl stopped running unexpectedly.

In /usr/bin I found a Python script named FAHControl I tried to run it from a terminal with python FAHControl and received the following error:
File "FAHControl", line 25, in <module>
from fah import FAHControl, load_fahcontrol_db
ImportError: No module named fah


I write Python a fair bit so it appears I need the fah module. Where can I find that?

Re: FAHControl crashes on Ubuntu 12.04.3 with Unity

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:40 am
by Bead_Hand
OK, got it. Turns out I had the fah module all along, hiding at /usr/share/pyshared/fah. Taking a hint and a guess from some other posts turned up by Google regarding the same issue on Fedora I tried
sudo cp -R /usr/share/pyshared/fah /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fah
and now it works.