jockey-gtk crashed with DBusException in __new__()

[Emilio]

When this happened, also gnome-settings-daemon died and left the desktop unthemed.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: jockey-gtk 0.4+r354-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/jockey-gtk --check 60
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/jockey-gtk', '--check', '60']
SourcePackage: jockey
Title: jockey-gtk crashed with DBusException in __new__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-5-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Running the latest jockey-kde gives this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jockey-kde", line 363, in <module>
    sys.exit(u.run())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/ui.py", line 322, in run
    self.ui_init()
  File "/usr/bin/jockey-kde", line 67, in ui_init
    self.ui_load_translations()
  File "/usr/bin/jockey-kde", line 154, in ui_load_translations
    (heading, subtext) = self.main_window_text()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/ui.py", line 140, in main_window_text
    info = self.backend().handler_info(h_id)
  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.OSError: 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/jockey/backend.py", line 216, in handler_info
    'name': h.name(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/handlers.py", line 94, in name
    self._package_defaults()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/handlers.py", line 79, in _package_defaults
    (distro_name, distro_desc) = OSLib.inst.package_description(self.package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/jockey/oslib.py", line 117, in package_description
    out = self._apt_show(package)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1149, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Daniel Holm (danielholm)]

Confirmed. Exactly the same thing for me.

[Walther Seidel (waseidel)]

I just start my laptop and a bug report appear and I choose send but I don't know what it's the trouble. but it's confirmed for my laptop

Compaq Presario F566la

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu3

---------------
jockey (0.5~alpha1-0ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge some bug fixes from trunk:
    - Fix search_drivers() to not return unrelated available handlers.
    - Change --search-driver UIs from confirmation dialog to displaying list
      of matches. (One half of LP: #269454)
    - OpenPrintingDriverDB: Show shortdescription and functionality fields.
      (Other half of LP: #269454)
    - Drop a lot of redundant probing from add_driverdb() and search_driver().
    - Build KDE .ui -> python on build time, to avoid runtime uic dependency.
      (LP: #271317)
    - nvidia, fglrx handlers: Remove RgbPath option, it causes X.org to crash.
    - ui.py: Update action button strings according to latest recommendations
      from Matthew Thomas, thanks!
    - ui.py: Properly intercept failure to connect to D-BUS. (LP: #258472)
  * Add python-kde4-dev build dependency, now needed to get pykde4uic.
  * fglrx, nvidia: Uninstall -kernel-source in disable(), thanks Alberto.
    (LP: #251962)
  * jockey/oslib.py, install_package(): Intercept SystemError. (LP: #258713,
    LP: #272146)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:39:42 +0200