On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Richard C. Steffens
<[email protected]> wrote:
> As mentioned yesterday my desktop croaked. Fortunately I had copied a
> number of things from it to my recently upgraded laptop which is now
> running Ubuntu 10.04, too.

This is a fairly old version of Ubuntu - it's /possible/ you're
running into a problem due to an incompatible version of Python: maybe
you're running a newer version of transcribe that expects a newer
python than what you have installed?

I don't know how backports / LTS works for Ubuntu -- you may be just
fine in that respect, but that came to mind.

--Rogan

> One of the programs I installed on both
> machines was a deb package called transcribe. It is an audio playback
> program that is used by transcribers to start and stop a recording to
> make it easier to keep up with the person speaking while typing what
> that person said. It also keeps track of the position of the audio
> cursor by time so one can jump to a specific spot in the recording if
> one knows when to jump to.
>
> I had this program running on my laptop three weeks ago. I tried to use
> it this morning but nothing happens on the screen when I click on its
> icon. I tried running it from a terminal window. Here's what I got:
>
> rsteff@acer-laptop:~$ transcribe
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/transcribe", line 479, in <module>
>    window = TranscribeWindow()
>  File "/usr/bin/transcribe", line 87, in __new__
>    new_object.finish_initializing(builder)
>  File "/usr/bin/transcribe", line 177, in finish_initializing
>    self.player = TranscribePlayer()
>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/transcribe/player.py", line 54, in
> __init__
>    'scaletempo')
> gst.ElementNotFoundError: scaletempo
> rsteff@acer-laptop:~$
>
> I tried Googling gst.ElementNotFoundError: scaletempo but got only one
> hit that didn't make much sense to me. Are the other lines, the ones
> above gst.E.ementNotFoundError, telling me that something is wrong? Or
> are they just showing me something is happening?
>
> I also tried reinstalling the deb package but I get the same results.
> Any thoughts on where to look next?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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