Gwibber can't start, 'module' object has no attribute 'InfoBar'

[Benoit St-André]

I have been using gwibber daily since a long time on Karmic.

Since the change to the new backends (gwibber-service(s)), I can't start gwibber anymore.

Here is the traceback that is shown when started in a terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 55, in <module>
    from gwibber import client
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 3, in <module>
    import gtk, gobject, gwui, util, actions, json, gconf
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 822, in <module>
    class GwibberInfoBar(gtk.InfoBar):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'InfoBar'

Using the 2.91.0~bzr918-0ubuntu1~daily1 version (but it was the same with 917 yesterday).

Will gladly test anything else needed to help solve this bug.

[Benoit St-André (benoit-st-andre)]

Just found an Exaile bug that looks quite similar to this problem:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+bug/583101

Is Gwibber needing pygtk 2.17 as a mandatory dependency now ?

[Mike Rushton (leftyfb)]

Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l

gwibber:
  Installed: 2.91.1~bzr928-0ubuntu1~daily1~karmic
  Candidate: 2.91.1~bzr928-0ubuntu1~daily1~karmic
  Version table:
 *** 2.91.1~bzr928-0ubuntu1~daily1~karmic 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.0.0~bzr476-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

** (gwibber:17133): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (gwibber:17133): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (gwibber:17133): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber", line 55, in <module>
    from gwibber import client
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/client.py", line 3, in <module>
    import gtk, gobject, gwui, util, actions, json, gconf
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gwibber/gwui.py", line 846, in <module>
    class GwibberInfoBar(gtk.InfoBar):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'InfoBar'

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

This has now been fixed in trunk, I also fixed some errors for indicator handling as well. The down side is the fix really just removes the InfoBar used to display failures, but at least it runs.

[Benoit St-André (benoit-st-andre)]

Wonderful ! Just updated from the PPA (Gwibber 2.91.2 - 2.91.2~bzr924-0ubuntu1~daily1~karmic), and I can use Gwibber again !

Thanks for solving this bug.

[Mike Rushton (leftyfb)]

Same here. All fixed now!