gnome-activity-journal crashed with TypeError in __getattr__()

[Jonathan Yip]

Binary package hint: gnome-activity-journal

Maverick Beta, just updated activity journal to 0.5.0+tb1-1. Crash when launching.

$ gnome-activity-journal
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 99, in <module>
    from src.main import PortalWindow
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/main.py", line 30, in <module>
    from activity_widgets import MultiViewContainer, TimelineViewContainer, ThumbViewContainer
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/activity_widgets.py", line 35, in <module>
    from store import ContentStruct, CLIENT
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 504, in <module>
    STORE = Store()
  File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 367, in __init__
    days_population = ZeitgeistDBusInterface().get_extension("Log", "journal/activity").GetHistogramData()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zeitgeist/client.py", line 82, in __getattr__
    raise TypeError("Unknown method name: %s" % name)
TypeError: Unknown method name: GetHistogramData

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-activity-journal 0.5.0+tb1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 14 19:58:58 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal']
SourcePackage: gnome-activity-journal
Title: gnome-activity-journal crashed with TypeError in __getattr__()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare wireshark

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #638217, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[young_simba (simba-neuroscience)]

 I had the same problem, killing zeitgeist processes (/usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon and /usr/bin/zeitgeist-datahub) and restarting seems to solve the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.