[Qgis-user] Startup error and missing directories under Fedora 36

[Patrick Dunford]

Hello

The metasearch error is the same one that often comes up running the 
Flatpak edition of Qgis, however the Gis works well.

Are you running the Flatpak edition? The directory path may in fact be 
/.var/app/share etc.

Errors dues to the Flatpak environment are possibly down to Flatpak 
packaging and not necessarily in the software itself.

On 19/07/22 10:37, John Dougherty via Qgis-user wrote:
> QGis / Python error:
>
> Running QGis on Linux, Fedora 36, QGis is looking for a nonexistent
> directory(ies)
>
>
>   On start up of QGis 3.26 (Buenos Aires) I receive the
> following error message:
>
> 2022-07-18T15:16:48     WARNING    Python error : Couldn't load plugin
> 'MetaSearch' due to an error when calling its classFactory() method See
> message log (Python Error) for more details.
>
> Looking in the Python error list reveals a long list of errors that all
> come down to Python routines apparently looking for key elements in
> a non-existent directory(ies):
>
>    ImportError: cannot import name 'soft_unicode' from 'markupsafe'
>    (/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/markupsafe/__init__.py)
>
> and
>
>    /app/share/qgis/python/qgis
>
> Since this error does not appear under windows 10, it seems to be
> something about the way my system is configured.  I can find no
> indication of "/app" as a standard directory in any Linux release, nor
> is there a "markupsafe" directory under
> "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages".
>
> Any help would be welcome.
>
> JWDougherty
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