gwibber-service crashed with TypeError in get_settings_iter(): super() takes at least 1 argument (0 given)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber-service", line 83, in <module>
    dispatcher = dispatcher.Dispatcher(loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 396, in __init__
    self.add_account(Account(account))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 165, in __init__
    self.on_account_changed (account_service, account)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 171, in on_account_changed
    iterator = account.get_settings_iter(None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Accounts.py", line 39, in get_settings_iter
    return super().get_settings_iter(prefix)
TypeError: super() takes at least 1 argument (0 given)

A bit more complete stack trace.

┌─│01:21:08│0│
└──╼ gwibber-service

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
  import gobject._gobject
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/gwibber-service", line 83, in <module>
    dispatcher = dispatcher.Dispatcher(loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 396, in __init__
    self.add_account(Account(account))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 165, in __init__
    self.on_account_changed (account_service, account)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py", line 171, in on_account_changed
    iterator = account.get_settings_iter(None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Accounts.py", line 39, in get_settings_iter
    return super().get_settings_iter(prefix)
TypeError: super() takes at least 1 argument (0 given)

┌─│01:21:11│1│
└──╼

Some apport infos.

== ProcVersionSignature =================================
Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.2-generic 3.8.0-rc3

== SourcePackage =================================
gwibber

== Tags =================================
 raring

== Uname =================================
Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64

== UpgradeStatus =================================
No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

== gwibber.log =================================
2013-01-11 01:16:28,408 - root MainThread : INFO - Logger initialized
2013-01-11 01:16:28,408 - Service MainThread : INFO - Service starting
2013-01-11 01:16:28,408 - Service MainThread : INFO - Running from the source tree
2013-01-11 01:16:28,502 - root MainThread : ERROR - Could not find any typelib for Unity
2013-01-11 01:16:28,503 - root MainThread : ERROR - Could not find any typelib for Dbus

Hi,

Traceback seems pretty obvious about the issue - super()... call is wrong, should be super(Account, self)...

See patch attached for a fix.

Cheers,
Xavier

Hi,

I've open a upstream bug for this - seems caused by new "gir1.2-accounts-1.0" (version 1.5), see:

http://code.google.com/p/accounts-sso/issues/detail?id=140&can=1&q=account

Cheers,
Xavier

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