10.10 - DockbarX Applet not loading

I used to have dockbarX applet installed on my gnome panel. However one day when I login in I got a error message which can be seen in the screenshot below. So I removed it, and then tried adding it again to the gnome panel but I still get the error message.

I am running the latest version of dockbarX 0.43 on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat with the helpers enabled and media buttons etc. I did not update it recently and have been using this version for a couple of weeks now and got this problem only now.

I tried a reinstall of all the components of dockbarX but still get the error message.

Here is the ~/.dockbarx/log/dockbarx.log

ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,984   | Traceback (most recent call last):
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,985   |   File "/usr/bin/dockbarx_factory", line 31, in 
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,985   |     import dockbarx.dockbar
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:18,985   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dockbarx/dockbar.py", line 37, in 
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,187   |     from groupbutton import *
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,187   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dockbarx/groupbutton.py", line 40, in 
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,324   |     import zg
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,324   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dockbarx/zg.py", line 34, in 
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,399   |     iface = client.ZeitgeistDBusInterface()
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,400   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zeitgeist/client.py", line 184, in __init__

ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,428   |     self.OBJECT_PATH)
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,428   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,496   |     follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,496   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520   |     self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520   |     self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,520   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,521   |     'su', (bus_name, flags)))
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,521   |   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking

ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,574   |     message, timeout)
ERROR   | 2011-03-02 12:10:19,575   | dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program /usr/local/bin/zeitgeist-daemon: Success

How can I solve this problem?

Ok, that's a known problem. There's a bug in zeitgeist and DockbarX 0.43 don't handle that error as it should. Next version will simply not use zeitgeist if there's an error instead of crashing.

It might take a while before the next release of DockbarX (I'm doing some code cleanup that is much more work than I suspected). In the mean time, try to install zeitgeist from the ppa (ppa:zeitgeist/ppa) or remove the ppa and downgrade zeitgest to mavericks own version if you already use the ppa.