Updates broke my Democracy TV

[Dan Steeves]

Not sure if I'm supposed to limit this forum to supported packages or
not, so apologies in advance if necessary.

Yesterday's March 22 update to Democracy TV has broken it for me.  The
first time I tried to run it I got an error message, can't remember what
it said.  But now when I click the menu item nothing visible happens.
Below is the output running from the command line.  Anyone know what
went wrong and how to fix it?

$ democracyplayer
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/eventloop.py:17:
RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module fasttypes: This
Python has API version 1013, module fasttypes has version 1012.
   import database
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/frontend_implementation/Application.py:26: 

GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use
gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
   gtk.threads_init()
DTV: Starting up Democracy Player
DTV: Version:  0.9.2.1
DTV: Revision: unknown
DTV: Loading preferences...
DTV: Restoring database...
Database load slow: 5.996
DTV: Recomputing filters...
failed() called; generating crash report.
WARNING: Error reading logfile: /home/dan/.democracy/log
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/util.py", line 194,
in readLog
     f = open(logFile, "rt")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/dan/.democracy/log'
WARNING: Error reading logfile: /home/dan/.democracy/dtv-downloader-log
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/util.py", line 194,
in readLog
     f = open(logFile, "rt")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/home/dan/.democracy/dtv-downloader-log'
----- CRASH REPORT (DANGER CAN HAPPEN) -----
App:        Democracy Player
Publisher:  Participatory Culture Foundation
Platform:   gtk-x11
Python:     2.5 (r25:51908, Oct  6 2006, 15:22:41)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu4)]
Py Path:    ['/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy', '/usr/bin',
'/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cairo',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10',
'/var/lib/python-support/python2.5',
'/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
'/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0']
Version:    0.9.2.1
Serial:     20061127000
Revision:   unknown
Time:       Fri Mar 23 07:12:08 2007
When:       while finishing starting up

Exception
---------
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/app.py", line 531,
in finishStartup
     downloader.startupDownloader()
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/downloader.py",
line 438, in startupDownloader
     cleanupIncompleteDownloads()
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/downloader.py",
line 405, in cleanupIncompleteDownloads
     for downloader in views.remoteDownloads:
   File "database.pyx", line 496, in database.DynamicDatabase.next
TypeError: exceptions must be strings, classes, or instances, not type

Call stack
----------
   File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 90, in <module>
     startapp()
   File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 57, in startapp
     app.main()
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/app.py", line 71,
in main
     Controller().Run()
   File
"/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/frontend_implementation/Application.py", 

line 27, in Run
     self.onStartup()
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/app.py", line 512,
in onStartup
     self.finishStartup(gatheredVideos)
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/app.py", line 674,
in finishStartup
     util.failedExn("while finishing starting up")
   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/util.py", line 131,
in failedExn
     failed(when, withExn = True, **kwargs)

Threads
-------
Current: MainThread
Active:
  - MainThread

----- END OF CRASH REPORT -----
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:109: 

GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_enter is deprecated, use
gtk.gdk.threads_enter instead
   gtk.threads_enter()
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:129: 

GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use
gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
   gtk.threads_leave()
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/democracy/frontend_implementation/gtk_queue.py:116: 

GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_leave is deprecated, use
gtk.gdk.threads_leave instead
   gtk.threads_leave()