Earcandy - Bad dependencies in the repositories (ubuntu karmic beta)

[eld1e6o]

Hello, I'm having problems with earcandy in ubuntu karmic, after install it I can't run, I got an exception.
When I try to run, the results in a console are:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/earcandy", line 17, in <module>
    import ear_candy
  File "/usr/share/earcandy/ear_candy/ear_candy.py", line 20, in <module>
    import wnck
ImportError: No module named wnck
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 100, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL), 'w')
OSError: [Errno 13] Permiso denegado: '/var/crash/_usr_share_earcandy_ear_candy_ear_candy.1000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/earcandy", line 17, in <module>
    import ear_candy
  File "/usr/share/earcandy/ear_candy/ear_candy.py", line 20, in <module>
    import wnck
ImportError: No module named wnck
diego@1234:~$ earcandy --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/earcandy", line 17, in <module>
    import ear_candy
  File "/usr/share/earcandy/ear_candy/ear_candy.py", line 20, in <module>
    import wnck
ImportError: No module named wnck
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 100, in apport_excepthook
    os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL), 'w')
OSError: [Errno 13] Permiso denegado: '/var/crash/_usr_share_earcandy_ear_candy_ear_candy.1000.crash'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/earcandy", line 17, in <module>
    import ear_candy
  File "/usr/share/earcandy/ear_candy/ear_candy.py", line 20, in <module>
    import wnck
ImportError: No module named wnck
diego@1234:~$ dpkg --list | grep earcandy
ii earcandy 0.5~bzr75-0ubuntu1

The version is 0.5~bzr75-0ubuntu1, and it's installed from the official repositories of karmic
Please, tell me what information is importanto to you to debug this bug

Greetings

[Patrick Loyatum (kimutai)]

Yeah, I've been having trouble starting earcandy. However my problem seems almost unrelated to ear candy itself as everything starts up almost perfectly until I get the error below after this:

== new output device found ==
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo

leads to;

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GLib-GObject-ERROR **: Attempt to add property GtkMenuBar::local to class after it was derived
aborting...

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[KillerKiwi (killerkiwi2005)]

The original error is a missing dep install "python-gnome2-desktop"

Patrick not sure about the second error.. maybe you could try the 0.7 branch (which is still under development)
https://code.launchpad.net/~killerkiwi2005/earcandy/0.7

[eld1e6o (eld1e6o)]

It's true Killerkiwi, the package python-gnome2-desktop wasn't installed, this bug could be easily solved modifying its dependencies. Perfect. The dependencies are bad. I modified the title to easily stand the problem.

Greetings!

[tim anderson (tim2648)]

thanks,
i had the same dependency missing, but installing python-gnome2-desktop fixed it.

[AndyOsi (andres-osinski)]

installing the python-wnck on Karmic solved the issue for me. This is probably the missing dependency.

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

This has been indirectly fixed/ worked around in Lucid (10.04) by gwibber (which depends on python-wnck) being pre-installed by default.

[Tarnay Kálmán (tarnay-kalman)]

@Mitch Towner: That's not a solution. I for one removed gwibber (It's only recommended by ubuntu-desktop and I don't want it) and then I did experience this.