Lutris doesnt start

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Hi gues,
I installed Lutris and also League Of Legends, i played Leuge and all worked.
I have Linux Ubuntu 17.10
So att the next day i tryd too start Lutris but nothing happend.When i start lutris over the Desktopshotrcut nothing happend.
Can you maybe help me ?
When i open it from the Terminal this is coming : Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/lutris”, line 33, in
from lutris.gui.application import Application
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/application.py”, line 30, in
from lutris import pga
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/pga.py”, line 10, in
from lutris import settings
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/settings.py”, line 28, in
sio = SettingsIO(CONFIG_FILE)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/settings.py”, line 11, in init
self.config.read([self.config_file])
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py”, line 697, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py”, line 1015, in _read
for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py”, line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xac in position 1: invalid start byte

2

Open a terminal and enter lutris -d

3

When i open it this comes:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/lutris”, line 33, in
from lutris.gui.application import Application
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/gui/application.py”, line 30, in
from lutris import pga
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/pga.py”, line 10, in
from lutris import settings
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/settings.py”, line 28, in
sio = SettingsIO(CONFIG_FILE)
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/settings.py”, line 11, in init
self.config.read([self.config_file])
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py”, line 697, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py”, line 1015, in _read
for lineno, line in enumerate(fp, start=1):
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py”, line 321, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xac in position 1: invalid start byte

4

Hey there,

I think you’re better reinstalled Lutris as I don’t have this issue with Ubuntu 17.10.

Also don’t forget to put x3d_platform=1 in your game.cfg to get the benefit of OpenGL as it works again & give you better perf.

Have a nice day :wink: