It looks like there's some version mismatch between Democracy and Dbus-python. When I start democracy player (Democracy-0.9.5.1-8.fc7) I get: /usr/bin/democracyplayer:81: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon. dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API. Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2). If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via <dbus.org>. import dbus_bindings /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus_bindings.py:5: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon. dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API. Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2). If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via <dbus.org>. from dbus.dbus_bindings import * Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/democracyplayer", line 89, in <module> onetime.OneTime() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/democracy/onetime.py", line 105, in __init__ bus_name = BusNameFlags('org.participatoryculture.dtv.onetime', bus=bus, flags=dbus.dbus_bindings.NAME_FLAG_DO_NOT_QUEUE) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/democracy/onetime.py", line 53, in __new__ retval = dbus.dbus_bindings.bus_request_name(bus.get_connection(), name, flags=flags) TypeError: request_name() takes no keyword arguments I changed onetiem.py to make flags=flags just be flags, but then it runs in to another error which was more difficult to trace. dbus-python is dbus-python-0.80.2-3.fc7.
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