System Error

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 10:01 -0800, Mark wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Thiago Cavalcante
> <tlcavalcante at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maintaining the system is not working.
> > Trying to run the console displays error message:
> >
> > tlcavalcante at tlcavalcante:~$ /usr/share/computerjanitor/computer-janitor-gtk
> > ERROR:computerjanitor:Cannot contact Computer Janitor dbus service; try again.
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/share/computerjanitor/computer-janitor-gtk", line 59, in <module>
> >    main()
> >  File "/usr/share/computerjanitor/computerjanitorapp/gtk/main.py",
> > line 31, in main
> >    ui = UserInterface()
> >  File "/usr/share/computerjanitor/computerjanitorapp/gtk/ui.py", line
> > 73, in __init__
> >    proxy = system_bus.get_object(DBUS_INTERFACE_NAME, '/')
> >  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
> >    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
> >  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
> >    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
> >  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in
> > activate_name_owner
> >    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
> >  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in
> > start_service_by_name
> >    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
> >  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in
> > call_blocking
> >    message, timeout)
> > DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch
> > helper exited with unknown return code 1
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> 
> What are you doing, trying to run a GUI app from a console without the GUI?

I wuz wondering that myself, unless the gui didn't work in the first
place, so command line was used to see why. It's pretty much a standard
app package, so there should be no dependency issues. Ric 

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