After updating quodlibet to version 0.24 it fails to start: ----------------------------------------------------------- $ quodlibet Supported formats: mod, mp3, mp4, mpc, trueaudio, wav, xiph Loaded song library. Opening audio device. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 301, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 45, in main window = widgets.init(player, library) File "/usr/share/quodlibet/widgets.py", line 79, in init Kind.init(library) File "/usr/share/quodlibet/browsers/media.py", line 146, in init devices._hal.connect_to_signal( File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 291, in connect_to_signal self._obj.connect_to_signal(signal_name, handler_function, dbus_interface, **keywords) File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 151, in connect_to_signal path=self._object_path, File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 179, in add_signal_receiver named_service = bus_object.GetNameOwner(named_service, dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.DBus') File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__ ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords) File "//usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__ reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout) File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block dbus_bindings.DBusException: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Hal': no such name ----------------------------------------------------------- I think it does not like the absence of HAL. And incorrectly handles (or does not handle at all) this situation. This is my USE-flags for quodlibet: media-sound/quodlibet-0.24 USE="aac alsa dbus flac mad mmkeys musepack trayicon vorbis -esd -gnome -oss" sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 USE="X doc -debug (-selinux)" "USE=-dbus emerge quodlibet" does not help.
Hmm it doesn't catch the exception thrown when hal is not running. I've bumped to -r1 with a patch that catches it. I'll try to handle that with upstream. Thanks for reporting !
