fbs freeze throws AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

[bicarlsen]

Note: This is an issue with PyInstaller not fbs, but it seemed relevant to the community, so I wanted to share it here.

The issue is addressed in Issue #5540 of PyInstaller, and is resolved by bwoodsend's 5540 patch.

[mherrmann]

Thank you for sharing!

[Kastakin]

The problem seems to be relevant only on Arch-Linux machines due to a glibc incompatibility. On Windows, Mac or Ubuntu the issue doesn't appear to be relevant. I have a GitHub Actions based pipeline to compile installers for the aforementioned OSs as targets and the runners complete their jobs without any issues.

As a workaround on my local machine I had to download the last source for PyInstaller, manually edit the paackage version to 3.4 (since it's the highest version supported by fbs that doesn't throw an error when running fbs freeze) and then in the virtual environment uninstall pyinstaller and install the locally modified version instead.

It's not pretty but it works for the time being... @mherrmann What are the main issues that limit the possibility to use newer releases of the pyinstaller package? I might look into it and make a pull request for it if it's something I can help with!

[bicarlsen]

@Kastakin , I’m on Ubuntu 21 and got this error, too.

[Kastakin]

@Kastakin , I’m on Ubuntu 21 and got this error, too.

My Github Runner is running on Ubuntu-18.04 to have an higher compatibility, it probably still runs an older version of glibc. Thanks for pointing it out!

[bicarlsen]

@Kastakin , I’m on Ubuntu 21 and got this error, too.

My Github Runner is running on Ubuntu-18.04 to have an higher compatibility, it probably still runs an older version of glibc. Thanks for pointing it out!

I believe the change occured with Ubuntu 21, my Ubuntu 20 machine seems to be fine.