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The following happens after attempting to run gnome-activity-journal (from a purge then reinstall)

 $ gnome-activity-journal &
    [1] 5252
    $ /usr/share/themes/Orta/gtk-2.0/Styles/Panel/panel-dark-default.rc:20: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "/Panel/panel-dark.png"
    ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/gnome-activity-journal", line 94, in <module>
        from src.main import PortalWindow
      File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/main.py", line 30, in <module>
        from activity_widgets import MultiViewContainer, TimelineViewContainer, ThumbViewContainer
      File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/activity_widgets.py", line 35, in <module>
        from store import ContentStruct, CLIENT
      File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 504, in <module>
        STORE = Store()
      File "/usr/share/gnome-activity-journal/src/store.py", line 367, in __init__
        days_population = ZeitgeistDBusInterface().get_extension("Log", "journal/activity").GetHistogramData()
      File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/zeitgeist/client.py", line 83, in __getattr__
        raise TypeError("Unknown method name: %s" % name)
    TypeError: Unknown method name: GetHistogramData 

I'm going to assume that the panel image missing error is irrelevant (I deleted it so that I can have a transparent panel). Anyway, I'm curious if there is a way I can resolve these errors so I can actually run gnome-activity-journal.

Edit: this is from installing gnome-activity-journal-

Unpacking gnome-activity-journal (from .../gnome-activity-journal_0.5.0.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
gtk-update-icon-cache: The generated cache was invalid.
WARNING: icon cache generation failed
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up gnome-activity-journal ( ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
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What does the theme has to do with the GAJ? –  tutuca Dec 7 '10 at 17:37
There's an error at the beginning related to the theme. –  Magic Dec 7 '10 at 17:53

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I found that there's already a bug reported for this:

You can try to run zeitgeist-daemon --replace

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Edited to show the installation output.. doesn't appear that there are any relevant errors. –  Magic Dec 7 '10 at 17:54

Here's an answer from a GAJ developer:

Zeitgeist was running (because you had used GNOME Activity Journal, Sezen, Unity, an application with Zeitgeist integration or whatever) at the point you installed the GNOME Activity Journal update.

The latest GNOME Activity Journal includes (and requires) an extension for Zeitgeist which provides the GetHistogramData method. However, since Zeitgeist was already running (and extensions are only loaded when Zeitgeist starts) it wasn't being used yet when you tried to launch the Activity Journal.

After restarting Zeitgeist (manually / closing your session / rebooting the computer / whatever) the extension gets picked up the next time Zeitgeist starts and so this problem shouldn't be happening again.

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make sure you have a file called "gnome_activity_journal.py" in your .local/share/zeitgeist/extensions directory. if not then download from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-zeitgeist/gnome-activity-journal/trunk/download/head%3A/gnome_activity_journ-20100726164417-6eyauzy3rk1f1i05-2/gnome_activity_journal.py place this file in the directory mentioned above then restart zeitgeist by doing "zeitgeist-daemon --replace"

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