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Message #00972
[Bug 830634] Re: Crash on startup: TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string
Okay, I hacked my way into getting a GUI. Here's my hack around line 105
(the place of the original traceback). Replace the line:
meth = getattr(self.__iface, method_name)
with this:
import dbus.proxies
if not isinstance(method_name, dbus.proxies._ProxyMethod):
meth = getattr(self.__iface, method_name)
else:
meth = method_name
return meth(*args, **kwargs)
this along with the scary __getattr__ (which is already there but which
I criticized before) will make things work at least enough to make the
GUI appear on Fedora 15.
I'm not proposing this as a real patch, as I have no idea what I'm
doing. I have the feeling that there was a slow accumulation of magic in
this class probably intended to make programming easier, but now pretty
scary to me (and leading to odd bugs like this).
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830634
Title:
Crash on startup: TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string
Status in GNOME Activity Journal:
Confirmed
Status in “gnome-activity-journal” package in Fedora:
Unknown
Bug description:
The bug was first reported here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725821
It is still happening with the latest 0.8.0 release of gnome-activity-
journal as well as a current checkout from bzr. This is with zeitgeist
0.8.1.
The full output when attempting to run gnome-activity-journal is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 88, in <module>
from src.external import CLIENT, CLIENT_VERSION
File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/external.py", line 88, in <module>
CLIENT_VERSION = CLIENT.get_version()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 450, in get_version
return [int(i) for i in self._iface.version()]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 207, in version
self.INTERFACE_NAME, "version")
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 105, in _disconnection_safe
meth = getattr(self.__iface, method_name)
TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string
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