[SOLVED] Scribes only launches as root (was Scribes won't launch)

Hi! I just installed Arch. I wanted to use Scribes as my text editor. I was able to open it once and now it won't open. I get a Starting Scribes message on my bottom panel (I'm using Gnome) but then nothing happens. It's set as the default text editor, but no files will open with it either. I'm using Scribes 0.3.3.3-1.
Any ideas? I uninstalled and reinstalled the scribes package.
Last edited by steveov (2009-01-04 01:36:42)

I'm posting to this really old thread because this is my problem now.
I have this version of Scribes:
$ pacman -Qs scribes-bzr
local/scribes-bzr 20111019-1
A simple PyGTK+ text editor
If I ran it as root, no problem, but, as myself, I got the following error:
File "/usr/bin/scribes", line 11, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 8, in main
__open()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Main.py", line 24, in __open
Manager().open_files(uris, "utf-8", stdin)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/InstanceManager.py", line 83, in open_files
self.__new_editor(stdin=stdin)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/InstanceManager.py", line 175, in __new_editor
Editor(self, str(uri), encoding, stdin)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/Editor.py", line 9, in __init__
Initializer(self, manager, uri, encoding, stdin, parameters)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/ServicesInitializer.py", line 31, in __init__
Manager(editor, uri)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/Manager.py", line 5, in __init__
Manager(editor, uri)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Manager.py", line 5, in __init__
Manager(editor, uri)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Window/Manager.py", line 5, in __init__
Window(editor)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Window/Window.py", line 8, in __init__
self.__set_properties()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/GUI/MainGUI/Window/Window.py", line 36, in __set_properties
if get_value(): self.__set_rgba()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SCRIBES/WidgetTransparencyMetadata.py", line 13, in get_value
database.close()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'database' referenced before assignment
My permissions on .gnome2/scribes/ are ok. Double checked.
I do really love scribes, I was used to it for a while. Now that I need it again, it's just not working.
Any help?

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