Public bug reported: Binary package hint: quodlibet
As there is a HAL deprecation in the next Ubuntu release (Lucid Lynx) it would be wise to remove quodlibet's dependency on HAL, too. When I remove the packages hal and hal-info from lucid lynx alpha 1, quodlibet does not start up anymore. On the bash console, the program at least gives the following messages and then exits quietly. ------------ Initializing audio backend (gstbe) Initializing main library (~/.quodlibet/songs) Unterstützte Formate: mod, mp3, mp4, mpc, spc, trueaudio, wav, wavpack, wma, xiph Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 285, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/quodlibet", line 59, in main window = widgets.init(player, library) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet/widgets.py", line 75, in init Kind.init(library) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet/browsers/media.py", line 148, in init for udi in devices.discover(): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/quodlibet/devices/__init__.py", line 120, in discover return _hal.FindDeviceByCapability('portable_audio_player') File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__ return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.65" (uid=1000 pid=4931 comm="python) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" member="FindDeviceByCapability" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.17" (uid=0 pid=2500 comm="/usr/sbin/hald)) ** Affects: quodlibet (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Quodlibet should not depend on HAL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505771 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs