*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1312457 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1312457
As it turns out, this problem (at least, one with the same sympthoms) was discovered en masse with gexiv2 on Trusty. I've just applied a patch that fixes the problem. I'm marking this as a duplicate of that ticket on the assumption that the problems are one and the same. gexiv2 0.10.1 will have the patch that fixes this problem. If people still have this error using 0.10.1, please comment here and we can re-open. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1312457 Python bindings broken due to changes in GObject overrides API -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gexiv2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1277894 Title: GExiv2 python wrapper broken Status in “gexiv2” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) Release: 14.04 gir1.2-gexiv2-0.4: Installed: 0.7.0-1 I can import the Python wrapper, but when initializing a Metadata object, I get an error: "TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)" It doesn't work in both python 2.7 and 3.3. $ python >>> from gi.repository import GExiv2 >>> GExiv2.Metadata('foo.png') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given) >>> $ python3 >>> from gi.repository import GExiv2 >>> GExiv2.Metadata('foo.png') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given) >>> p.s. according to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697204#32 the Python overrides are not installed? however, they seem to be: $ locate GExiv2.py /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gexiv2/+bug/1277894/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp