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

[Xin Wang]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

There's nothing special in Fedora's spec files of sugar-browse and
sugar-toolkit-gtk3.

But I found that the version of telepathy-gabble is a bit old in
openSUSE, maybe I should got a newer version first.

-- 
Xin Wang (http://dram.me/)