Difficulty installing Phatch

Summary:

After running it for a while, it will not anymore.

Difficulty installing Phatch

MuccaPazza 13 Jul 2010 23:41

Hello,

I am unsure if this is a good place to ask for assistance, but I am having difficulties running Phatch.
In fact, at the moment Phatch does not run anymore at all. The application is there, under Graphics, however when clicked, the hourglass shows for about a minute, then disappears and nothing happens. One day it just stopped running.

I checked in System Monitor and see no Phatch process.
I have tried un-installing it, then re-installing, both through the Ubuntu Software Center, and through the Phatch website, getting the Debian packet, and nothing gives.
Now I resize my pictures one by one with Gimp… no more batch conversions :-(

Could you offer any help?
I am relatively new to Ubuntu; have Karmic Koala.
If you need some more info to start troubleshooting, please let me know.

Thank you, I appreciate the potential help.
MuccaPazza

Re: Difficulty installing Phatch

stani 14 Jul 2010 06:38

There is a bug in the software centre (Karmic only!). Can you do in a terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install phatch

If Phatch doesn't still start afterwards, please start phatch from a terminal and paste the output here:
$ phatch

Re: Difficulty installing Phatch

MuccaPazza 17 Jul 2010 23:36

Hi Stani,

Sorry I only saw your post now, couldn't find the "subscribe to thread" option..

I tried your first command, the output was as follows:

phatch is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
binutils-static
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

The phatch icon is now again in the tray (it had disappeared), but it still will not start. When I click its icon, there is a new window that appears, "Starting Phatch PHoto bATCH Processor) but then nothing happens.

I then tried to launch it from the terminal, the output:
christoph@christoph-laptop:~$ phatch
Sorry, your settings seem corrupt. Please delete "/home/christoph/.config/phatch/settings.py". Also check if your hard disk not full.

My disk is not full or even close. It was at some point but not anymore.
I went into system monitor/processes, I do not see phatch.

I did delete the above mentioned file: everything works again :-) I hope it lasts.
Thank you again for your help. Once you start using this program, it is hard to live without!!