mandos server fails starting

[Eurobiz computer administration]

After updating from oneiric to precise mandos server fails starting.

It says:

root@computer:~# /etc/init.d/mandos start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/mandos", line 764, in <module>
    class AlternateDBusNamesMetaclass(DBusObjectWithProperties
AttributeError: type object 'DBusObjectWithProperties' has no attribute '__metaclass__'

I get it on i386 and amd64 architectures, both on release upgrade and fresh installation.
mandos version 1.4.0-1

[Mandos Maintainers (mandos-maintainers)]

Right. It turns out that the newer version of python-dbus that Ubuntu
uses (1.0.0) differs from the version in Debian unstable (0.84.0).
(dbus.service.Object no longer has a __metaclass__ attribute.) By
somewhat of a coincidence, the code in Mandos using metaclasses has
been rewritten in version 1.5.4 to use class decorators instead,
thereby avoiding the problem entirely.

The bug requesting Ubuntu to upgrade to Mandos 1.5.4 is bug #1002179, here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mandos/+bug/1002179

[Angel Abad (angelabad)]

This bug was fixed in the package mandos - 1.5.5-1
Sponsored for Mandos Maintainers (mandos-maintainers)

---------------
mandos (1.5.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * debian/copyright (Format): Updated to
    "http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/".
  * debian/control (Build-Depends): Removed "man, locales-all".

 -- Teddy Hogeborn <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:30:41 +0200

[Chris Vigelius (chris-vigelius)]

After almost a whole year, this problem still exists in 12.04:

root@xxx:~# service mandos start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/mandos", line 764, in <module>
    class AlternateDBusNamesMetaclass(DBusObjectWithProperties
AttributeError: type object 'DBusObjectWithProperties' has no attribute '__metaclass__'

[Theodotos Andreou (theodotos)]

Still present in 12.04.2 oon mandos version 1.4.0-1