[Sugar-devel] Browse failed to start with dbus UnknownMethod error in openSUSE

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Xin Wang <dram.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I'm trying to package sugar for openSUSE. Glucose packages
> have finished, and now I'm packaging Browse. But it failed to start
> with following error.
>
> ---
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 146, in <module>
>    main()
>  File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 141, in main
>    instance = create_activity_instance(activity_constructor, activity_handle)
>  File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 34, in create_activity_instance
>    activity = constructor(handle)
>  File "/usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/webactivity.py",
> line 153, in __init__
>    activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sugar3/activity/activity.py",
> line 358, in __init__
>    warn_if_none=False)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sugar3/presence/presenceservice.py",
> line 89, in get_activity
>    dbus_interface=CONN_INTERFACE_ACTIVITY_PROPERTIES)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
>    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
>    **keywords)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line
> 630, in call_blocking
>    message, timeout)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetActivity" with
> signature "s" on interface "org.laptop.Telepathy.ActivityProperties"
> doesn't exist
> ---
>
> Browse is 137,  sugar-toolkit-gtk3 is 0.96.1.
>
> I have no clue how to fix it, could someone figure me out what should I do?

Maybe use the Fedora .spec file as a base because it works OK for us.

Peter