Comment 3 for bug 713135

I can reproduce the crash, but it happens with the old pygobject as well:

ii python-gobject 2.27.0+git20110108-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for the GObject library
ii python-gobject-cairo 2.27.0+git20110108-0ubuntu1 Python Cairo bindings for the GObject library

rm -r ~/.local/share/hamster-applet
$ /usr/bin/hamster-service
hamster-service up
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/hamster-service", line 22, in <module>
    storage = db.Storage(loop)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/hamster/db.py", line 82, in __init__
    self.run_fixtures()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/hamster/db.py", line 1182, in run_fixtures
    USING fts3(id, name, category, description, tag)""")
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/hamster/db.py", line 921, in execute
    cur.execute(state, param)
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such module: fts3

Also, this doesn't look related to pygobject itself. Can yo u confirm that it works for you if you temporarily move away your ~/.local/share/hamster-applet, ensure that hamster-service isn't running, and start it like above?