Pychess no longer starts

Diggis

Hello, since the most recent update PyChess no longer launches when I try to open it, I tried uninstalling and re-installing but no luck. Has anybody else had the same problem or found a fix?

kyrios

Diggis could you please run pychess from a terminal and paste the output here?

Diggis

Running it without any other command was non-descript saying command not found (but it is definitely installed according to package manager) so here is the verbose:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pychess", line 197, in <module> from pychess.System import conf File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pychess/System/conf.py", line 27, in <module> configParser.read_file(fh) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/configparser.py", line 718, in read_file self._read(f, source) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/configparser.py", line 1070, in _read raise DuplicateSectionError(sectname, fpname, configparser.DuplicateSectionError: While reading from '/home/diggis/.config/pychess/config' [line 100]: section 'ICC' already exists

Diggis

Sorry. I said verbose, I meant log-debug. And actually it didn't say command not found before running log-debug... i'm confusing this issue with something else i was trying to do, i shouldn't juggle... it just did nothing.

kyrios

Looks like your pychess config file is corrupted. You can try to edit it and remove the duplicate entries or to delete it.

/home/diggis/.config/pychess/config

Diggis

Thank you, I eliminated the duplicated lines. However, now I have this read-out and I don't know what change I should make.
configparser.ParsingError: Source contains parsing errors: '/home/diggis/.config/pychess/config' [line 97]: 'ss_book.bin\n'
Is there an obvious fix or should I just delete the whole config file and start from scratch? obviously more fun if i can actually get it working 😄 obviously I need to change something about ss_book.bin but i have no idea what to do about that.

kyrios

Diggis to be frank I didn't even look how the config file looks like.
I'd take a copy of it then delete it unless setting back the config is really long / complex.

PS: once it works fine it would be wise to backup the config file and keep it for a few weeks in case the problem occurs again (pychess wasn't updated since January so I have no clue why you suddenly got this 😕)

Diggis

Beats me. I guess it was unrelated to the update and just coincidentally timed.

Problem solved now anyway, I used the hammer... I just deleted ss_book.bin everything seems to work fine now *knocks on wood

I'll back it up, that's sound advice. Thank you for your assistance in this matter! 😁