Mycroft does not work in ubuntu 20.04

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I have just re-installed Ubuntu 20.04 and installed mycroft and it does not work.

in audio.log:

2020-08-02 16:55:41.324 | INFO     | 19266 | mycroft.messagebus.load_config:load_message_bus_config:33 | Loading message bus configs

2020-08-02 16:55:41.778 | ERROR | 19266 | mycroft.tts.tts:create:527 | The TTS could not be loaded.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/mimic_tts.py”, line 187, in validate_connection
subprocess.call([BIN, ‘–version’])
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 340, in call
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 854, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 1583, in _execute_child
and os.path.dirname(executable)
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/posixpath.py”, line 152, in dirname
p = os.fspath§
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/tts.py”, line 517, in create
tts.validator.validate()
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/tts.py”, line 435, in validate
self.validate_connection()
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/mimic_tts.py”, line 189, in validate_connection
LOG.info("Failed to find mimic at: " + BIN)
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not “NoneType”) to str
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/mimic_tts.py”, line 187, in validate_connection
subprocess.call([BIN, ‘–version’])
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 340, in call
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 854, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 1583, in _execute_child
and os.path.dirname(executable)
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/posixpath.py”, line 152, in dirname
p = os.fspath§
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py”, line 193, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py”, line 86, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/audio/main.py”, line 49, in
main()
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/audio/main.py”, line 36, in main
speech.init(bus)
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/audio/speech.py”, line 182, in init
tts = TTSFactory.create()
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/tts.py”, line 517, in create
tts.validator.validate()
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/tts.py”, line 435, in validate
self.validate_connection()
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/mycroft/tts/mimic_tts.py”, line 189, in validate_connection
LOG.info("Failed to find mimic at: " + BIN)
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not “NoneType”) to str

In voice.log:

2020-08-02 16:55:39.403 | INFO     | 19269 | mycroft.messagebus.load_config:load_message_bus_config:33 | Loading message bus configs

ALSA lib pcm.c:2642:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2642:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2642:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:869:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port
ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card
ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card
2020-08-02 16:55:41.054 | INFO | 19269 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wake_word_recognizer:323 | Creating wake word engine
2020-08-02 16:55:41.055 | INFO | 19269 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wake_word_recognizer:346 | Using hotword entry for hey mycroft
2020-08-02 16:55:41.057 | INFO | 19269 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:load_module:386 | Loading “hey mycroft” wake word via precise
2020-08-02 16:55:43.688 | INFO | 19269 | mycroft.client.speech.listener:create_wakeup_recognizer:360 | creating stand up word engine
2020-08-02 16:55:43.689 | INFO | 19269 | mycroft.client.speech.hotword_factory:load_module:386 | Loading “wake up” wake word via pocketsphinx
2020-08-02 16:55:43.888 | INFO | 19269 | mycroft.messagebus.client.client:on_open:67 | Connected
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “precise/scripts/engine.py”, line 32, in
File “/home/tesla/mycroft-precise/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py”, line 623, in exec_module
File “precise/network_runner.py”, line 17, in
File “/home/tesla/mycroft-precise/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py”, line 623, in exec_module
File “numpy/init.py”, line 151, in
File “/home/tesla/mycroft-precise/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py”, line 623, in exec_module
File “numpy/ctypeslib.py”, line 369, in
File “numpy/ctypeslib.py”, line 358, in _get_typecodes
File “numpy/ctypeslib.py”, line 358, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘numpy.core._dtype_ctypes’
[19502] Failed to execute script engine
Exception in thread Thread-17:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py”, line 932, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File “/usr/lib/python3.8/threading.py”, line 870, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/precise_runner/runner.py”, line 197, in _handle_predictions
prob = self.engine.get_prediction(chunk)
File “/home/steven/mycroft-core/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/precise_runner/runner.py”, line 64, in get_prediction
self.proc.stdin.flush()
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

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Have you made any config changes?
Which voice do you have selected?
What have you tried to do to fix it so far? What was the result of that?

3

fresh install of everything, and there is nothing I can do, it just does not work.

4

Thanks to ken-mycroft, now I know how make it works!

5

Hi callofcthulhu, what was a cause and how did you fix it? I am going to upgrade my Ubuntu 19.10 to 20.04 this week as 19.10 is no longer support updates. Thank You

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Hi,

The reason is that Ubunt 20.04 has python 3.8 by default and it does not work with mycroft.
So:
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.5/Python-3.7.5.tgz
tar xf Python-3.7.5.tgz
cd Python-3.7.5/
./configure --enable-optimizations --enable-shared
sudo make install

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Can I clarify, are you using a manual install of Precise rather than the binary that is downloaded by default?

Using the standard installation instructions Mycroft does work on Ubuntu 20.04.

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When I tried 11d ago as default installation did not work, but now it does.
So, my question is, does mycroft works with python 3.8?

9

The only actual issue that I can recall is the lack of an appropriate version of TensorFlow for Precise (issue #133).

Currently we only test in Python 3.5-3.7, so officially we don’t support 3.8 yet, but we do need to add it given it’s general availability now.

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Yes, but Ubuntu 20.04 uses 3.8 and it seems that now mycroft works with that.

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Yes, it works because in a default installation Precise gets downloaded pre-compiled with TF builtin and wouldn’t hit the issue above. So whilst we don’t officially support 3.8 Mycroft does run fine on Ubuntu 20.04 as you said.

12

Now, I finally get it, the issue is with precise, so if you want to source install it you need python 3.7 right?

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If you want to source install precise yes.

Using the “git install” of Mycroft-core uses the packaged version of Precise.
(just wanted to be clear as I could see people calling this a source install)

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