f-spot encoutered a fatal error

[marcmpub]

 When launching f-spot (i'm using kubuntu 8.04 beta) it never starts.
Looking on some forum I saw that i could try to launch it via a console with the following option :
f-spot --view %U
1) if I do so as a normal user I get :
in the console :
usermoi@ubuntu-marc:~$ f-spot --view %U
System.ApplicationException: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot" ---> System.Exception: Unable to open the session message bus. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.BusG.Init () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

in a pop-up window I have :

An unhandled exception was thrown: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot"

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0)
gconf-sharp (2.20.0.0)
FSpot.Utils (0.0.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.20.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.3.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
Cms (0.0.0.0)
FSpot.Core (0.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.3.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.20.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.12.0.0)
f-spot (0.4.2.0)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic x86_64 unknown GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
looks like (for a non specilaist as me) a D-bus error

2) If I lanch it as superuser :
see error as super super
looks like (as a non specialist like me) a mono error

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Does it work after installing the dbus-x11 package?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

- Install dbus-x11
- Restart X
- Try to launch F-Spot

[marcmpub (marcmpub)]

tried to reinstall dbus-x11, restarted X (ctrl + alt + <- ), same behaviour : F-Spot complains about d-bus ....

I saw status has been set to incomplete, let me know if there is any action, test I could do for giving you more information

best regards

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and this report is being marked as a duplicate. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.