hamster dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited

[Juan Jesús Sanz]

In a fresh install, ubuntu 14.04 updated.

uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ hamster-indicator
WARNING:root:Could not import gnomeapplet. Defaulting to upper panel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hamster-indicator", line 385, in <module>
    hamster_indicator = HamsterIndicator()
  File "/usr/bin/hamster-indicator", line 175, in __init__
    super(HamsterIndicator, self).__init__(applet)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hamster/applet.py", line 205, in __init__
    self.new_name = widgets.ActivityEntry()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hamster/widgets/activityentry.py", line 103, in __init__
    self.populate_suggestions()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hamster/widgets/activityentry.py", line 234, in populate_suggestions
    self.activities = runtime.storage.get_activities(fact.activity)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hamster/client.py", line 136, in get_activities
    return self._to_dict(('name', 'category'), self.conn.GetActivities(search))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hamster/client.py", line 87, in conn
    '/org/gnome/Hamster'),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 241, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 248, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 180, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 278, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process /usr/lib/hamster-applet/hamster-service exited with status 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Michal Bojanowski (michal2992)]

I was getting the same error when I installed on Xubuntu 14.04 from sources (https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster, commit 4cc85cc2bc96da4f9c9d5b41b578ef304f109c92). However, when configured with `--prefix /usr` everything started to work.