jobs-admin crashes on startup

[Santosh]

Binary package hint: jobs-admin

When I invoke the program jobs-admin it exits with some error messages that I'm copying below. The same error messages are displayed whether or not the program in invoked with sudo or not.

$ sudo jobs-admin
No module named pkit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jobs-admin", line 31, in <module>
    ui.load_jobs()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobsAdmin/__init__.py", line 108, in load_jobs
    weight = 700 if job.running else 400
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobsAdmin/remote.py", line 68, in __getattr__
    retry(self._connect, call)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobsAdmin/util.py", line 26, in retry
    return func()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobsAdmin/remote.py", line 67, in call
    dbus_interface=PROPERTIES_IFACE)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.ValueError: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/service.py", line 702, in _message_cb
    retval = candidate_method(self, *args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobService/job.py", line 40, in GetAll
    self._load_properties()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobService/job.py", line 122, in _load_properties
    self._props = self.root.proxy.get_service(self.name)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobService/backends/__init__.py", line 111, in get_service
    info.update(bk.get_service(name))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobService/backends/upstart_0_6.py", line 73, in get_service
    job_name, inst_name = self._split_job(name)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/JobService/backends/upstart_0_6.py", line 136, in _split_job
    job_name, inst_name = name.split('/')
ValueError: too many values to unpack

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I'm using the version of jobs-admin from the official repositories.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: jobs-admin 0.8.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 22 21:43:55 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: jobs-admin