syncropated crashed with DBusException in call_blocking()

I looked into this a bit today. This is happening because the package hasn't been updated to a newer DBUS API. The version in Intrepid is 0.2.0-0ubuntu4. The newest upstream version is also 0.2.0 and was last released in 2006.

I'm not interested in maintaining it upstream (or in Ubuntu) and perhaps the right thing is just to drop the damned package, but FWIW I'm attaching a patch which fixes the problem by updating DeviceDetection.py to use the new API.

I confirm I have the same bug in Intrepid Ibex x86_64 and that the above patch fixes the issue.

Here's the patch that I applied. (Some small modifications for packaging, etc.)

Thanks a lot.

This bug was fixed in the package syncropated - 0.2.0-0ubuntu5

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syncropated (0.2.0-0ubuntu5) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/05_update_to_new_dbus_API.patch: patch by Christian Kiko
    Reis to use the new dbus API to not crash. (LP: #200357)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:56:41 +0100

I'd like to nominate this for a Stable Release Update for Intrepid.

This bug impacts an application that provides important syncronization services for several devices.

After a quick chat on IRC, Daniel suggested he could probable provide a minimal patch applicable to the Intrepid version of this package, which I'd be happy to test. If preparing this patch is likely to be time-consuming, I won't pursue this further. Daniel, can you comment once/when you can look into it ?

TEST CASE: well, this was originally reported on Hardy, but the fix didn't make it until Jaunty.

Regression potention IMO is very low, no other package depends on this one and it provides all functionality by itself.

Patch attached above. :-)

Apologies for what could normally be blamed on the keyboard. Reading back my last comment I see I could use a sick day or two very soon :)

In TEST CASE I meant to specify syncropated crashes when trying to start it, every time.

I also see Daniel provided the patch while I was commenting, thank you Daniel.

motu-sru ACK.

Thanks Devid.

Proposed fix uploaded. Waiting for archive-admin approval.

Accepted into intrepid-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Ok, now syncropated works in Intrepid - got the update from -proposed.

However it fails to recognize removable devices :(

*And* in Jaunty it crashes with my 16K+ songs in Rhythmbox.

/me files or looks up a bug for those issues.

Thanks a lot, so fixed in Intrepid as far as I am concerned.

Upstream seems pretty dead. :-/

Setting back to 'fix committed' - the bug will be closed when the SRU is published to intrepid-updates.

This bug was fixed in the package syncropated - 0.2.0-0ubuntu4.1~proposed1

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syncropated (0.2.0-0ubuntu4.1~proposed1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/05_update_to_new_dbus_API.patch: patch by Christian Kiko
    Reis to use the new dbus API to not crash. (LP: #200357)

 -- Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:06:51 +0100