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 > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
