scribes unable to open text files

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Binary package hint: scribes

Distro: Ubuntu 8.04
Arch: amd64
Package: scribes 0.3.3.3-3

Attempts to open text files with scribes fail, editor never appears.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/scribes", line 79, in <module>
    main(argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 46, in main
    __open(uris)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 59, in __open
    __open_via_dbus(uris)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 81, in __open_via_dbus
    dbus_service.open_files(uris, dbus_interface=scribes_dbus_service)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/connection.py", line 607, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.AttributeError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/service.py", line 696, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SCRIBES/DBusService.py", line 53, in open_files
    return self.__manager.open_files(uris)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SCRIBES/InstanceManager.py", line 204, in open_files
    map(self.focus_file, filter(has_uri, uris))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/SCRIBES/InstanceManager.py", line 261, in focus_file
    editor.window.window.show()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'show'

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 9 03:10:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/scribes
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: scribes 0.3.3.3-3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
SourcePackage: scribes
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic x86_64