Issue 340 in specto: Specto refuses to start on Ubuntu Lucid

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New issue 340 by pco...@gmail.com: Specto refuses to start on Ubuntu Lucid
http://code.google.com/p/specto/issues/detail?id=340

(note: you can delete all the text below if you want, it is only there to
guide you)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. launching from shell
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Specto 0.3.1; Ubuntu Lucid 10.04

Please provide any additional information below.
Worked perfectly till some days ago.
Since today refused to start.
Tried to purge and reinstall via apt-get. Same effect.

This is the output:
$ specto
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/spectlib/notifier.py:330:
DeprecationWarning: PyArray_FromDimsAndDataAndDescr: use
PyArray_NewFromDescr.
for row in icon.get_pixels_array():
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/specto", line 30, in <module>
specto = Specto()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/spectlib/main.py", line 131, in
__init__
self.watch_db.create(values)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/spectlib/watch.py", line 345, in
create
type = values[i]['type']
KeyError: 'type'

Thanks for your help.

[spe...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Invalid

Comment #1 on issue 340 by nekoh...@gmail.com: Specto refuses to start on
Ubuntu Lucid
http://code.google.com/p/specto/issues/detail?id=340

Hi, your ~/.local/share/specto/watches.list file is probably corrupt...
you will need to edit it or remove it. I think this is a duplicate of an
existing bug report, but I can't find which one right now.

Also, please upgrade to Specto 0.4. It might be a bug that was fixed in
that version.