Bug#255374: [moz-bonobo-list] Bug#255374: mozilla-bonobo: no longer works with GPDF since GNOME 2.6

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andrew Lau wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:32:44PM +0200, Christian Glodt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 16:45, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Andrew Lau wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:56:24PM +0300, Martin-�ric Racin=
e wrote:
> > > > > Package: mozilla-bonobo
> > > > > Version: 0.4.1-1
> > > > > Severity: important
> > > > > 
> > > > > "Could not load viewer for content of type application/pdf".
> > > > 
> > > > Could you please be more specific? i.e. what version of GPdf do you=
 have
> > > > installed? What browser (and version) are you experiencing this bug
> > > > under? Any specific URL?
> > > 
> > > gpdf   0.131-1
> > > galeon 1.3.15-2 
> > > 
> > > http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/msft_drm.pdf
> > 
> > Yesterday I could reproduce the problem. Not a single component
> > would work. Today everything seems to work fine.
> > 
> > Bonobo sometimes seems to break when libbonobo is upgraded, and
> > an old bonobo-activation-server keeps running. Maybe try logging
> > out and killing all bonobo-related processes (or rebooting). Also
> > try a "bonobo-slay".
> 
> Hi Martin-Eric,
> 
> I noticed this bug a day or two before you reported it, but by the time
> you had filed a report with the Debian BTS I could no longer reproduce
> it. Christian's explanation seems plausible enough. Does the bug still
> affect you? If not, would you mind if I close this bug report?

Yes, Christian's explanation matches my findings.  I have a feeling that Bonobo
and FAM really ought to be declared unfit for user consumption; they seem to be
the cause of 90% of all GNOME-related bug reports. ;)  Let's close it.  Thanks!

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/