[SOLVED] Unable to Start or Install any games

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I can’t install or run any game, the error message I get leads me to believe it’s a problem with my python installation. This error does not appear on any of my other python programs so I have come here for help. If this is not the place to be asking for help for this problem please let me know where to go instead.

Whenever I install or run any games I get this error:

Fatal Python error: init_sys_streams: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/io.py", line 54, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'open_code' from 'io' (unknown location)

This did not happen before, I don’t know when this started happening, what caused it to happen, or even begin how to fix it.

Lutris issue report file
Lutris -d output

Thank you for your help

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Looks like a Python interpreter version issue.

But open_code is part of Python 3.8.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#high-level-module-interface

I always paste the error message in a search engine to see i I can find any other users who reported the error. I found a user who reported the same problem. See here on Stackoverflow:

Question is: is your issue the same? A version check can be done as follows:

python --version

And those ignored errors in your log are strange too. I would begin with checking what Python versions exist on the system and which are actually used.

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It looks like I might be having a similar issue
When I run python --version it shows a version of python 3.8,
but when I run python3 --version it shows a version of python 3.7
Python 3.8 has a couple dependents according to my package manager but Python 3.7 doesn’t seem to be handled through my package manager at all.

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Which distro are you two using?

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I’m the same person, I meant that I was having a similar issue as the guy in the post you linked.
I’m running Arch Linux.

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Oops. :sleeping:

You could look for an installed package called python37 other versions are often packaged like this to make it easy to install them side by side.

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I’ve done that and as far as I can tell it isn’t installed under the AUR package. At least, it hasn’t been the way I would traditionally do it.

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You are using pacman right?

What does a quey like this tell you?

pacman -Q | grep python
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This is the output I get
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/xSFnNDj79f/

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Looks ok.

The error mentions Python 3.8 so why isn’t it there…

The only thing I can think of is a reinstall command:

pacman -S python python2
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Isn’t that python 3.8 right there at the top?

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I fixed the issue.
At some point I managed to an altinstall of Python 3.7 from source. I removed it by hand and lutris isn’t having any more issues.

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Yay! Good to hear! :+1: