I hadn't even thought of running it as root, how silly (and total noob giveaway) of me. I tried kdesu democracyplayer (running Kubuntu) and at least it ran the setup tool - but it also crashed as the player tried to load. Ah well, here's to bug reports working wonderfully well in Ubuntu!
Sluggysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i get the same too - can run it as root, but won't start up completely. :( stops at same point, at daemon startup. -- [apport] democracyplayer crashed with TypeError in __new__() https://launchpad.net/bugs/81798 -- [apport] democracyplayer crashed with TypeError in __new__() https://launchpad.net/bugs/81798 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs