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Bug 193242

Summary: media-sound/exaile-0.2.10-r1 won't start with dbus error
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: A. Person <tesoro302>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST    
Severity: normal CC: sound
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description A. Person 2007-09-20 20:10:52 UTC
exaile-0.2.10-r1 won't start with a dbus error.  I re-emerged exaile but it did not change the error. Here it is:

$ exaile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "exaile.py", line 27, in <module>
    import xl.dbusinterface
  File "//usr/share/exaile/xl/dbusinterface.py", line 28, in <module>
    class DBusInterfaceObject(dbus.service.Object):
  File "//usr/share/exaile/xl/dbusinterface.py", line 41, in DBusInterfaceObject
    @dbus.service.method("org.exaile.DBusInterface", "s")
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/decorators.py", line 24, in decorator
    in_sig = tuple(dbus_bindings.Signature(in_signature))
  File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 84, in dbus_bindings.SignatureIter.next
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. exaile
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
exaile fails to start

Expected Results:  
started exaile
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-24 16:59:27 UTC
Try..

- media-sound/exaile-0.2.11_beta
- if you have upgraded python recently, run python-updater
- re-emerge dbus-python
Comment 2 A. Person 2007-09-30 19:35:44 UTC
Getting back to a functioning python-2.4 after upgrading to 2.5 was nightmarish.  python-updater doesn't seem to work for downgrading.  I'm happy with quodlibet.  Lemme know if I'm missing out on something really cool though.