/usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs:TypeError:<module>:__init__:constructor

[Evan]

https://errors.ubuntu.com/bucket/?id=/usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs:TypeError:<module>:__init__:constructor

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Alberto, could you look at this issue? It's one of the most reported issues on quantal

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs", line 280, in <module>
    daemon = Daemon()
  File "/usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs", line 46, in __init__
    self._account_manager = Accounts.Manager.new_for_service_type("documents")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 76, in constructor
    return info.invoke(cls, *args, **kwargs)
TypeError: constructor returned NULL

looking at the stats by version those are really low for 0.5, it could be either fixed already (the system report the installed version not the running one) or few people upgraded to the new one

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Recipe:

$ chmod a-r ~/.config/libaccounts-glib/accounts.db
$ killall unity-scope-gdocs; /usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs

(process:12783): accounts-glib-WARNING **: Error opening accounts DB: unable to open database file

(process:12783): accounts-glib-CRITICAL **: ag_manager_new_for_service_type: assertion `AG_IS_MANAGER (manager)' failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs", line 298, in <module>
    daemon = Daemon()
  File "/usr/lib/unity-lens-files/unity-scope-gdocs", line 49, in __init__
    self._account_manager = Accounts.Manager.new_for_service_type("documents")
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 76, in constructor
    return info.invoke(cls, *args, **kwargs)
TypeError: constructor returned NULL

[Iain Lane (laney)]

you can legitimately get this when apparmor denies the open request due to you having a home directory in a nonstandard location

[Alberto Mardegan (mardy)]

It should be possible to reproduce the bug by making ~/.config/libaccounts-glib/accounts.db.* read-only.
The regression risk is 0: all what we are doing is terminating normally when we catch the exception, rather than having python terminate our script because of the unhandled exception.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-scope-gdocs - 0.7-0ubuntu1

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unity-scope-gdocs (0.7-0ubuntu1) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Use ‘alternate’ link-type to open files in a browser (LP: #1041749)
    - Exit if the account manager can't be instantiated. (LP: #1058063)
 -- Ken VanDine <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:20:54 -0400