gnome-do fails to start because of uncaught dbus exception

[Luke Hoersten]

Binary package hint: gnome-do

After upgrading to Ubuntu karmic 9.10, I'm unable to start gnome-do-0.8.2+dfsg-1. This is the stdout/err output:

(Do:4482): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.

Could not locate Tomboy on D-Bus. Perhaps it's not running?
[Debug 10:35:52.663] Acquiring org.freedesktop.DBus session instance
[Debug 10:35:52.673] Starting org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer

Unhandled Exception: System.Exception: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.bansheeproject.CollectionIndexer was not provided by any .service files
  at IBusProxy.StartServiceByName (System.String flags, UInt32 ) [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.StartServiceByName (System.String name, UInt32 flags) [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.StartServiceByName (System.String name) [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Collection.Indexer.RemoteHelper.IndexerClient.Start () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Collection.Indexer.RemoteHelper.SimpleIndexerClient.Start () [0x00000]

[Luke Hoersten (lukehoersten)]

It seems banshee became uninstalled in the upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. Banshee is a suggested package for gnome-do so no dependency problems should have existed. I imagine if I was able to start gnome-do I'd see that the banshee plugin was still selected and this was causing the dependency to be a requirement.

Installing Banshee fixes the problem. Plugins should probably disable themselves if the recommended dependency isn't available.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

This doesn't look like Do is actually crashing, but do you have actually
have tomboy/banshee installed?

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-- Alex Launi

[Luke Hoersten (lukehoersten)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-do/+bug/442332/comments/2

Please see my above note which explains what happened.