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

[Xin Wang]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Xin Wang <dram.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, the sugar stack is fairly dependent on new versions of telepathy
> and webkit. Also make sure all the dependencies have introspection
> bindings enabled as Browse uses introspection for most of the language
> bindings.
>
> Peter

Thanks.

It works after to upgrade telepathy-gabble to 0.16.0.

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