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democracyplayer package

Democracyplayer wont start

Bug #65943 reported by Exclamation on 2006-10-13

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	democracyplayer (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Running edgy amd64. Democracy starts and closes very quickly.

reuben@dv2000:~$ democracyplayer
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/Application.py:30: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
  gtk.threads_init()
DTV: Starting up Democracy Player
DTV: Version: 0.8.4.1
DTV: Revision: unknown
DTV: Loading preferences...
DTV: Restoring database...
DTV: Recomputing filters...
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:search
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads
DTV: Spawning Channel Guide...
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed
DTV: Spawning auto downloader...
DTV: Spawning idle notifier
DTV: idle notifier running
DTV: Displaying main frame...
DTV: Starting event loop thread
DTV: updating the Guide
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:103: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_enter is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_enter instead
  gtk.threads_enter()
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/MainFrame.py:113: GtkWarning: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
  self.widgetTree = WidgetTree(resource.path('democracy.glade'), 'main-window', 'democracyplayer')
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:119: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
  gtk.threads_leave()
*** Launching Democracy Downloader Daemon ****
*** Daemon ready ***
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: JavaPluginFactory5 init - no agent?

System error?:: No such file or directory
downloader: connection closed -- quitting
Shutting down downloaders...
reuben@dv2000:~$

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Daniel Robitaille (robitaille) wrote on 2006-10-14:

According to the Ubuntu Forum, the Democracy player needs Java 5. See for example this forum thread to explain the steps to install it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202259

But the version of the Democracy Player in Dapper is relatively old. If you go here:
http://www.getdemocracy.com/downloads/ubuntu.php

you will find the newer 0.9.x version.

In my case I didn't even install Java 5 to use that application, but I'm using that newer version from getdemocracy.org, so maybe it is a needed dependency that got removed between versions 0.8 and 0.9.

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Andrew (fishpie) wrote on 2006-10-23:

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I think that I am experiencing the same bug using kubuntu edgy x86. I have the multiverse package sun-java5-jre installed.

andrew@fred:~$ democracyplayer
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/Application.py:30: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
  gtk.threads_init()
DTV: Starting up Democracy Player
DTV: Version: 0.8.4.1
DTV: Revision: unknown
DTV: Loading preferences...
DTV: Restoring database...
DTV: Recomputing filters...
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:search
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads
DTV: Spawning Channel Guide...
DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed
DTV: Spawning auto downloader...
DTV: Spawning idle notifier
DTV: idle notifier running
DTV: Displaying main frame...
DTV: Starting event loop thread
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:103: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_enter is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_enter instead
  gtk.threads_enter()
*** Launching Democracy Downloader Daemon ****
*** Daemon ready ***
DTV: updating the Guide
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:119: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
  gtk.threads_leave()
DTV: Warning couldn't load feed at http://live.watchmactv.com/wp-rss2.php
WARNING: Calling <function <lambda> at 0xb4b7cf44> on HTTPClient: http://www.telemusicvision.com/videos/rss.php?i=1 too slow (0.649 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://del.icio.us/rss/representordie/system:media:video too slow (0.672 secs)
WARNING: idle (Thread Pool Callback) too slow (0.672 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://some-pig.net/videos/rss.php?i=2 too slow (0.314 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://revision3.com/diggnation/feed/small.mov too slow (0.320 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://www.telemusicvision.com/videos/rss.php?i=1 too slow (0.567 secs)
WARNING: idle (Thread Pool Callback) too slow (0.567 secs)
WARNING: Calling <function <lambda> at 0xb4b7ca74> on HTTPClient: http://www.videobomb.com/rss/posts/front too slow (0.859 secs)
WARNING: Calling <function <lambda> at 0xadb9b80c> on HTTPClient: http://some-pig.net/videos/thumbnails/foot_small.png too slow (0.573 secs)
WARNING: Calling <function <lambda> at 0xb4b861ec> on HTTPClient: http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/quicktime_daily_enclosures.xml too slow (1.263 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://www.mediarights.org/bm/rss.php?i=1 too slow (1.131 secs)
WARNING: idle (Thread Pool Callback) too slow (1.131 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://www.videobomb.com/rss/posts/front too slow (0.268 secs)
WARNING: feed update for: http://www.channelfrederator.com/rss too slow (0.744 secs)
WARNING: idle (Thread Pool Callback) too slow (0.744 secs)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)