[apport] democracyplayer crashed with TypeError in __new__()

[canofspam3]

Binary package hint: democracyplayer

never started

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Sat Feb 24 21:32:57 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/democracyplayer
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: democracyplayer 0.9.2.1-2.1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/democracyplayer
ProcCwd: /home/agrajag
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/democracyplayer']
SourcePackage: democracyplayer
Uname: Linux morpheus 2.6.20-8-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 13 05:21:37 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Nicolas_Raoul (nicolas-raoul)]

I have the same bug here, with Ubuntu Feisty Herd 4 (installed from the alternate cd, with LVM).

I installed democracyTV from the "Install and remove applications" application.
I click on its icon in the menu, and it immediately crashed.
It reproduces every time.
Here is the output when running it within a terminal:

nico@aikawa:~$ democracyplayer
/usr/bin/democracyplayer:81: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon.

dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old
dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  import dbus_bindings
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus_bindings.py:5: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon.

dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old
dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  from dbus.dbus_bindings import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 89, in <module>
    onetime.OneTime()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/onetime.py", line 105, in __init__
    bus_name = BusNameFlags('org.participatoryculture.dtv.onetime', bus=bus, flags=dbus.dbus_bindings.NAME_FLAG_DO_NOT_QUEUE)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/onetime.py", line 53, in __n
ew__
    retval = dbus.dbus_bindings.bus_request_name(bus.get_connection(), name, flags=flags)
TypeError: request_name() takes no keyword arguments
nico@aikawa:~$

Good luck !
Nicolas

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Thanks for your bug report. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 81798 and is being marked as such. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.