quickly refuses to run newly created application

[Tony Wieczorek]

Hi! On a recently updated Natty installation, I run "quickly create ubuntu-application myproject" and I get this:

Creating project directory myproject
Creating bzr repository and committing
Launching your newly created project!le 0/1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./myproject", line 35, in <module>
    from myproject import (BaseMyprojectWindow)
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/BaseMyprojectWindow.py", line 9, in <module>
    from myproject import (
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/AboutMyprojectDialog.py", line 8, in <module>
    from myproject.helpers import get_builder
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/helpers.py", line 12, in <module>
    from myproject.Builder import Builder
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/Builder.py", line 8, in <module>
    from gi.repository import GObject # pylint: disable=E0611
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gi/_gi.so: undefined symbol: g_irepository_enumerate_versions
Congrats, your new project is setup! cd /home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/ to start hacking.

The directory is created on the filesystem, and it looks like a Quickly app should look. However, running the app through quickly gives a similar result:
$ cd myproject/
$ quickly run
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bin/myproject", line 35, in <module>
    from myproject import (BaseMyprojectWindow)
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/BaseMyprojectWindow.py", line 9, in <module>
    from myproject import (
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/AboutMyprojectDialog.py", line 8, in <module>
    from myproject.helpers import get_builder
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/helpers.py", line 12, in <module>
    from myproject.Builder import Builder
  File "/home/tonyjw/Projects/myproject/myproject/Builder.py", line 8, in <module>
    from gi.repository import GObject # pylint: disable=E0611
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ._gi import _API, Repository
ImportError: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gi/_gi.so: undefined symbol: g_irepository_enumerate_versions

Quickly Version:
Quickly 11.03.1
  Python interpreter: /usr/bin/python 2.7.1
  Python standard library: /usr/lib/python2.7

  Quickly used library: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/quickly
  Quickly data path: /usr/share/quickly
  Quickly detected template directories:
          /usr/share/quickly/templates/

[Tony Byrne (tony-badwolf)]

I've met this before running a quickly app outside ubuntu. What worked for me was to replace

from gi.repository import GObject # pylint: disable=E0611

with

try:
    from gi.repository import GObject # pylint: disable=E0611
except ImportError:
    import gobject as GObject

I don't have Natty so cannot test this in your environment. Can you try this and give us some feedback. patch attached

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Sounds like a missing dependency on gir1.2-gobject...

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Actually, nevermind. The real error here is "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gi/_gi.so: undefined symbol: g_irepository_enumerate_versions" which doesn't seem like a quickly error. Searching around doesn't give me any useful instances of this happening to other people...