Can't kill process. Standalone, Ubuntu 24.04

[psychochemist]

Check the bug

Didn't find one here, only a mention on bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282299

Describe the bug

Can't kill a process. When I am choosing the process and pressing 'k', the error occurs.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start Glances
2. Press the key ''k" on the chosen process
3. See error

Expected behavior

A pop-up menu where I confirm kill of the process

Screenshots

I added a screenshot of the error because of bad formatting of the error.

Environment

• Operating System :
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
  Release: 24.04
  Codename: noble
• Glances & psutil versions:
  Glances v3.4.0.3 with PsUtil v5.9.8
• How do you install Glances (Pypi package, script, package manager, source):
  Ubuntu package manager
• Glances test:

Output glances test

===============================================================================
Glances` 3.4.0.3 (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/__init__.py)
Python 3.12.3 (/usr/bin/python3)
PsUtil 5.9.8 (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/psutil/__init__.py)
===============================================================================
alert         [OK]    0.00001s 
[]
amps          [OK]    0.00011s key=name 
[{'count': 0,
  'countmax': None,
  'countmin': 1.0,
  'key': 'name',
  'name': 'Dropbox',
  'refresh': 3.0,
  'regex': True,
  'result': None,
  'timer': 2.130171298980713}, ...]
cloud         [NA]
connections   [NA]
containers    [OK]    0.00006s 
[]
core          [OK]    0.00112s 
{'log': 16, 'phys': 8}
cpu           [OK]    0.00049s 
{'cpucore': 16,
 'ctx_switches': 43820,
 'guest': 0.0,
 'guest_nice': 0.0,
 'idle': 93.7,
 'interrupts': 27237,
 'iowait': 0.1,
 'irq': 0.0,
 'nice': 0.0,
 'soft_interrupts': 6897,
 'softirq': 0.0,
 'steal': 0.0,
 'syscalls': 0,
 'system': 2.2,
 'time_since_update': 2.130281686782837,
 'total': 12.2,
 'user': 4.0}
diskio        [OK]    0.00109s key=disk_name 
[{'disk_name': 'sda',
  'key': 'disk_name',
  'read_bytes': 0,
  'read_count': 0,
  'time_since_update': 2.127974510192871,
  'write_bytes': 0,
  'write_count': 0}, ...]
folders       [OK]    0.00002s 
[]
fs            [OK]    0.00083s key=mnt_point 
[{'device_name': '/dev/nvme0n1p2',
  'free': 99250122752,
  'fs_type': 'ext4',
  'key': 'mnt_point',
  'mnt_point': '/',
  'percent': 89.3,
  'size': 974365782016,
  'used': 825545068544}, ...]
gpu           [OK]    0.00001s 
[]
help          [OK]    0.00000s 
None
ip            [NA]
irq           [NA]
load          [OK]    0.00002s 
{'cpucore': 16, 'min1': 0.4921875, 'min15': 0.462890625, 'min5': 0.59326171875}
mem           [OK]    0.00008s 
{'active': 7761768448,
 'available': 26385731584,
 'buffers': 455950336,
 'cached': 5090516992,
 'free': 26385731584,
 'inactive': 2960654336,
 'percent': 21.3,
 'shared': 142225408,
 'total': 33537908736,
 'used': 7152177152}
memswap       [OK]    0.00013s 
{'free': 8589930496,
 'percent': 0.0,
 'sin': 0,
 'sout': 0,
 'time_since_update': 2.134084463119507,
 'total': 8589930496,
 'used': 0}
network       [OK]    0.00052s key=interface_name 
[{'alias': None,
  'cumulative_cx': 375668,
  'cumulative_rx': 187834,
  'cumulative_tx': 187834,
  'cx': 0,
  'interface_name': 'lo',
  'is_up': True,
  'key': 'interface_name',
  'rx': 0,
  'speed': 0,
  'time_since_update': 2.0058088302612305,
  'tx': 0}, ...]
now           [OK]    0.00001s 
'2024-09-15 07:54:39 CEST'
percpu        [OK]    0.00005s key=cpu_number 
[{'cpu_number': 0,
  'guest': 0.0,
  'guest_nice': 0.0,
  'idle': 19.0,
  'iowait': 0.0,
  'irq': 0.0,
  'key': 'cpu_number',
  'nice': 0.0,
  'softirq': 0.0,
  'steal': 0.0,
  'system': 0.0,
  'total': 81.0,
  'user': 1.0}, ...]
ports         [OK]    0.00000s 
[{'description': 'DefaultGateway',
  'host': '172.18.0.1',
  'indice': 'port_0',
  'port': 0,
  'refresh': 30,
  'rtt_warning': None,
  'status': 0.002237,
  'timeout': 3}]
processcount  [OK]    0.08299s 
{'pid_max': 0, 'running': 1, 'sleeping': 348, 'thread': 2023, 'total': 497}
processlist   [OK]    0.00021s key=pid 
[{'cmdline': ['/snap/thunderbird/509/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin'],
  'cpu_percent': 37.2,
  'cpu_times': pcputimes(user=27.75, system=4.64, children_user=0.06, children_system=0.28, iowait=0.0),
  'gids': pgids(real=1001, effective=1001, saved=1001),
  'io_counters': [178844672, 2662400, 178844672, 2662400, 1],
  'key': 'pid',
  'memory_info': pmem(rss=668966912, vms=3533742080, shared=221024256, text=651264, lib=0, data=767578112, dirty=0),
  'memory_percent': 1.9946589910119314,
  'name': 'thunderbird-bin',
  'nice': 0,
  'num_threads': 83,
  'pid': 4612,
  'status': 'S',
  'time_since_update': 2.1034443378448486,
  'username': 'ziber6'}, ...]
psutilversion [OK]    0.00001s 
(5, 9, 8)
quicklook     [OK]    0.00025s 
{'cpu': 12.2,
 'cpu_hz': 3600000000.0,
 'cpu_hz_current': 2800290750.0,
 'cpu_name': 'AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor',
 'mem': 21.4,
 'percpu': [{...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...}, {...},
            {...}],
 'swap': 0.0}
raid          [NA]
sensors       [OK]    0.00000s key=label 
[{'critical': None,
  'key': 'label',
  'label': 'acpitz 0',
  'type': 'temperature_core',
  'unit': 'C',
  'value': 57,
  'warning': None}, ...]
smart         [NA]
system        [OK]    0.00000s 
{'hostname': 'nexExp9',
 'hr_name': 'Ubuntu 24.04 64bit',
 'linux_distro': 'Ubuntu 24.04',
 'os_name': 'Linux',
 'os_version': '6.8.4-060804-generic',
 'platform': '64bit'}
uptime        [OK]    0.00010s 
{'seconds': 710}
wifi          [NA]
===============================================================================
Total time to update all stats: 0.09014s
===============================================================================

Additional context

I have tried the newer version of glances which I installed via pipx. The error is the same, the difference only in folder, since it install glances in .local/share/

Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
2 File "/usr/local/bin/glances", line 8, insys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/init.py", line 185, in main
start(config=core.get_config(), args=core.get_args())
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/init.py", line 131, in start
mode.serve_forever()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/standalone.py", line 168, in serve_forever
while self.__serve_once():
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/standalone.py", line 152, in __serve_once
ret = not self.screen.update(self.stats, duration=adapted_refresh)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/outputs/glances_curses.py", line 1186, in update
self.flush(stats, cs_status=cs_status)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/outputs/glances_curses.py", line 1133, in flush
self.display(stats, cs_status=cs_status)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/outputs/glances_curses.py", line 714, in display
self.kill(stats.get_plugin('processlist').get_raw()[self.args.cursor_position])
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/outputs/glances_curses.py", line 748, in kill
confirm = self.display_popup(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/outputs/glances_curses.py", line 976, in display_popup
popup.addnstr(2 + y, 2, m, len(m))
_curses.error: addnwstr() returned ERR

[nicolargo]

Corrected on the develop branch.

Thanks for the issue report @psychochemist !