Problem:
When starting Pronterface / Printrun on Linux using pronterface
, printrun
, python3 pronterface.py
or similar, you see an error message like
Traceback (most recent call last): File "pronterface.py", line 62, in <module> app = PronterApp(False) File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronterface.py", line 2464, in __init__ self.mainwindow = PronterWindow(self) File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronterface.py", line 170, in __init__ self.parse_cmdline(sys.argv[1:]) File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronsole.py", line 786, in parse_cmdline self.process_cmdline_arguments(args) File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronterface.py", line 1031, in process_cmdline_arguments pronsole.pronsole.process_cmdline_arguments(self, args) File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronsole.py", line 769, in process_cmdline_arguments self.load_default_rc() File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronsole.py", line 664, in load_default_rc self.load_rc(config) File "/home/uli/dev/tools/Printrun/printrun/pronsole.py", line 632, in load_rc for rc_cmd in rc: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 714, in __next__ return next(self.reader) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 645, in __next__ line = self.readline() File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 558, in readline data = self.read(readsize, firstline=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 504, in read newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd3 in position 4: invalid continuation byte
Solution
When you see this error message, typically your pronsolerc
is corrupted. In order to remove it,
rm -rf ~/.config/Printrun