ValueError: Namespace Gio not available on startup

[LaRevoltage]

I am on latest Arch Linux system, and after trying to start the udiskie 2.5.2-1 installed from AUR, I get the following error:

➜ udiskie               
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/udiskie", line 4, in <module>
    from udiskie.cli import Daemon
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/udiskie/cli.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .depend import has_Notify, has_Gtk, _in_X, _in_Wayland, has_AppIndicator3
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/udiskie/depend.py", line 13, in <module>
    require_version('Gio', '2.0')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 122, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace Gio not available

[coldfix]

Hi, do you have glib2 installed? I don't see udiskie package in AUR? Did you mean the one in extra?

Best, Thomas

[coldfix]

This sounds weird for multiple reasons:

• there is no udiskie package in AUR
• the Gio-2.0.gir typelib belongs to gobject-introspection which is (indirectly) depended upon by python-gobject via (viagobject-introspection-runtime. You seem to havepython-gobject, since therequire_version` function that raises the error belongs to that package.
• the executed python modules are in /usr/lib, so it's not due to running in a virtualenv either

I suspect something is/was messed up with your installation of python-gobject or gobject-introspection. I'll close this for now as you didn't provide more information. If the problem persists, let me know, and I can reopen/investigate.