[Bug 81798] [apport] democracyplayer crashed with TypeError in __new__()

[Daniel Robitaille]

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Binary package hint: democracyplayer

The Democracy player crashed  simply by trying to start it up:

  from dbus.dbus_bindings import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 89, in <module>
    onetime.OneTime()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/onetime.py", line 105, in __init__
    bus_name = BusNameFlags('org.participatoryculture.dtv.onetime', bus=bus, flags=dbus.dbus_bindings.NAME_FLAG_DO_NOT_QUEUE)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/onetime.py", line 53, in __new__
    retval = dbus.dbus_bindings.bus_request_name(bus.get_connection(), name, flags=flags)
TypeError: request_name() takes no keyword arguments

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Fri Jan 26 21:59:18 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/democracyplayer
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: democracyplayer 0.9.2.1-2.1ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/democracyplayer
ProcCwd: /home/daniel
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/daniel/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/democracyplayer']
SourcePackage: democracyplayer
Uname: Linux laptop 2.6.20-5-generic #2 SMP Sat Jan 6 14:50:47 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: democracyplayer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: MOTU
         Status: Confirmed

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[apport] democracyplayer crashed with TypeError in __new__()
https://beta.launchpad.net/bugs/81798