A pdb shows that method_name is a dbus.proxies._ProxyMethod. This seems to be a callable itself.
I think there's another bug lurking here though, as the meth it tries to getattr is never actually used. Maybe it should be returned? Not knowing what is really going on I tried various things, but to no avail - I only get crashes later on in get_version. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of GNOME Zeitgeist Team, which is the registrant for GNOME Activity Journal. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830634 Title: Crash on startup: TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string Status in GNOME Activity Journal: Confirmed Status in “gnome-activity-journal” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: The bug was first reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725821 It is still happening with the latest 0.8.0 release of gnome-activity- journal as well as a current checkout from bzr. This is with zeitgeist 0.8.1. The full output when attempting to run gnome-activity-journal is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 88, in <module> from src.external import CLIENT, CLIENT_VERSION File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/external.py", line 88, in <module> CLIENT_VERSION = CLIENT.get_version() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 450, in get_version return [int(i) for i in self._iface.version()] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 207, in version self.INTERFACE_NAME, "version") File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zeitgeist/client.py", line 105, in _disconnection_safe meth = getattr(self.__iface, method_name) TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-activity-journal/+bug/830634/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gnome-zeitgeist Post to : gnome-zeitgeist@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gnome-zeitgeist More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp