Bug#348053: gnome-panel: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_BattstatApplet".

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 06:30:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > I have said "delete this applet" when prompted, but I see that there are
> > several applet entries still in /apps/panel/applets in gconf.
> > Specifically they were imported from my old gconf tree I think.
> 
>  Please note that prefs are converted to be stored in
>  ~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml from the previous
>  ~/.gconf/{apps,desktop,system}/ hierarchy.  You can safely ignore (and
>  even remove) the files below ~/.gconf/{apps,desktop,system}/.
> 
>  See gconf's changelog and README for details.

Hi,

I had run "rm -rf .gnome* .gconf*" and it did not help; the default
desktop configuration contained the volume mixer applet which would also
fail to start.

Only reinstalling gnome-panel + gnome-applets helped. I don't know which
of these it was as I did both at once, sorry.

Regards,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>