Crashes on start under Wayland in Ubuntu GNOME 17.04

Bug #1684946 reported by Jesse
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This bug affects 24 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Kazam Screencaster
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Trying to run Kazam from app menu or terminal under Wayland session causes it to crash. Terminal produces the following:

/usr/bin/kazam:32: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import Gtk
ERROR dbus.proxies - Introspect error on :1.181:/org/kazam: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/kazam", line 138, in <module>
    app()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.181 was not provided by any .service files

BUG DISCOVERED ON:
Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 x64
GNOME 3.24.0 desktop environment
Wayland 1.7?
Linux kernel 4.10.0-19-generic

dimitar (mitkoru)
Changed in kazam:
status: New → Confirmed
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chrowe (chris-ole) wrote :

I tested this with all 5 of the desktops I have.

Error
 - Gnome
 - Ubuntu

No error
 - Gnome on Xorg
 - Ubuntu on Xorg
 - Unity

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chrowe (chris-ole) wrote :

Also, this is not only an issue for Kazam. OBS has the same problem when trying to record the entire screen.

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