pychess fails to start after jaunty up

[nobodie]

Binary package hint: pychess

here is a CLI paste:

$ sudo apt-get install pychess
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pychess
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1000kB of archives.
After this operation, 4018kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package pychess.
(Reading database ... 189250 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking pychess (from .../pychess_0.8.2-1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up pychess (0.8.2-1) ...

localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 376K
jim@dhcppc:~$ pychess
Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/System/tsqlite.py", line 34, in run
    con = sqlite.connect(self.path)
OperationalError: unable to open database file

/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/Players/engineNest.py:3: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import os, md5, imp

(pychess:11981): libglade-WARNING **: could not find glade file '/usr/lib/python2.6/glade/tipoftheday.glade'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/pychess", line 87, in <module>
    import pychess.Main
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/Main.py", line 20, in <module>
    from pychess.widgets import tipOfTheDay
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/widgets/tipOfTheDay.py", line 7, in <module>
    widgets = GladeWidgets("tipoftheday.glade")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pychess/System/uistuff.py", line 198, in __init__
    self.widgets = gtk.glade.XML(addDataPrefix("glade/%s" % filename))
RuntimeError: could not create GladeXML object

it hangs at that point.
jaunty 9.04
release 9.04

[Luis Felipe Strano Moraes (luis-strano)]

Haven't really invested any time in debugging this, but it does work if you start it with python 2.5. The version of pychess on jaunty is old, but I've tried the latest beta version available on the site and it was really buggy.