Bug#255518: gnome-panel: No applets load; existing applets forced to be deleted

Amelia A Lewis Amelia A Lewis <alewis@tibco.com>, 255518@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:08:15 -0400


Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.6.1-4
Severity: important
Tags: sid

On upgrade this morning, I ended up with the gnome-settings-daemon issue
(which may have something to do with XKB; I haven't bothered chasing it down
further once I discovered that /usr/lib/control-center/gnome-settings-daemon
& was a workaround).  I mention this because it's possible that it affected
the panel applets (or is affecting, as the settings daemon was started after
the panel, after login).

All my applets are gone.  On startup, I got an error dialog: "The panel
encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID: blah_blah". Details: Unknown
CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'  Do you want to
delete the applet from your configuration?"  Selecting Don't Delete pops the
same message up, until I give up and allow it to delete.  It did this to
every applet in my configuration.  If I attempt to add an applet back in, it
displays the same message.

Interestingly, this does not happen if I log in as root (either via gdm or
via Xnest).  Neither does the settings-daemon problem.  Likewise, if I
create a new user, there's no problem.  One obvious, if completely
unacceptable workaround, is to blow away all of my configuration and start
over (sort of completing the job of destruction that the upgrade started). 
All users use the same wm (sawfish).

Launchers are not affected.  Menus and drawers are not affected.  Only
applets seem to be broken, and *all* of them are broken (otherwise I'd
report on applet problems; this seems to be a panel problem, somehow, or an
interaction of the settings daemon problem with the panel or with the panel
and applets or with the phase of the moon (that applet isn't working either,
of course) or something).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center      1:2.6.1-7      The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii  gnome-desktop-data        2.6.1-2        Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-panel-data          2.6.1-4        Common files for GNOME 2 panel
ii  gnome-session             2.6.1-5        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-2        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.1-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.2-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2        2.6.1-2        Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-5        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-3      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.3-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0        2.6.1-4        Library for GNOME 2 Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.0-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.5.0-6      PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.6-2          library for program launch feedbac
ii  libwnck4                  2.6.2-1        Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                   2.6.10-3       GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-3    compression library - runtime

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