It worked!
Oddly, newmod didn’t work in a fresh Ubuntu minimal installation. Thank you!
César MR <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi! I'm trying to follow the tutorial about working with gnuradio in c++, which can be found in the wiki, but i when i try to run gr_modtool, it crash. At first i thought that it was because of my language, so i changed my linux mint language to UK english,
but it didn't work.
>
> In addition i had to run gr_modtool with admin privileges in order to get a crash report in /var/crash directory.
>
> You can download the whole crash log here:
https://mega.nz/#!yLxRGaRI
>
> What do you think is the root of my problem? thank you
That is a Debian packaging of gnuradio bug that mint inherited.
This is also found in Debian 10 "Buster" gnuradio 3.7.13.4-4.
The problem comes from Python byte-compiled files used as templates.
The solution is to remove all .pyc files found under
/usr/share/gnuradio/modtool/gr-newmod
especially:
/usr/share/gnuradio/modtool/gr-newmod/python/build_utils_codes.pyc
/usr/share/gnuradio/modtool/gr-newmod/python/build_utils.pyc
/usr/share/gnuradio/modtool/gr-newmod/python/__init__.pyc
I missed these becasue they are not present in the .deb, but are
generated when the package is installed.
Recent (gnuradio 3.8) Debian packages no longer byte-compile any Python
under /usr/share/gnuradio/ - solving this problem.
Easiest fix is just
`sudo rm /usr/share/gnuradio/modtool/gr-newmod/python/*pyc`
Good luck,
-Maitland