Comment 6 for bug 441039

Confirmed RichardN.. it worked for me anyway.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, RichardN <email address hidden> wrote:

> I starts fine now. First time and second time I started it it crashed.
> I remember that I have also started the client itself, after the prefernces
> app crashed two times....
>
> Possible solution:
> start 'ubuntuone-client-applet' from a commandline and close it
> start 'ubuntuone-client-preferences' from the system->preferences menu.
>
>
> I suspect that the first command creates some configuration (file) so that
> the preferences command can save some preferences to that file....
>
> Can someone confirm this?
>
> --
> Ubuntu One crashed on launch
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441039
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>
> Status in Ubuntu One Client: In Progress
> Status in “ubuntuone-client” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubuntuone-client
>
> Ubuntu One crashed when I attempted to launch it. No window appeared, only
> bug report window.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Oct 2 19:07:05 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-preferences
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
> Package: ubuntuone-client-gnome 0.96.0-0ubuntu1
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-preferences
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/ubuntuone-client-preferences']
> SourcePackage: ubuntuone-client
> Title: ubuntuone-client-preferences crashed with IOError in save_config()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
>