Bug#649779: Random applets fail to load ( “The panel encountered a problem while =?UTF-8?Q?loading...=E2=80=9D?=)

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Mon May 21 07:12:12 UTC 2012


Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2012, 23:23 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2011, 22:56 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > libpanel-applet uses dbus slighly wrong, causing a race condition
> > between the panel object appearing on the dbus and it providing the
> > interface expected by the panel. The effect is that random applets fail
> > to load. I have provided upstream with a patch at
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654843#c9
> > but it seems that they are not the quickest at applying patches against
> > fallback components, so I’d appreciated if the patch would make it into
> > the next Debian upload, if it has not been applied until then.
> 
> it seems that upstream does not care too much about the fallback
> components any more. Would you mind applying the patch in Debian? I have
> been successfully using it for several months now, but having to patch
> the Debian package becomes annoying.
> 
> Here the direct link to the patch:
> http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=201328

after another ping, upstream applied the patch:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/commit/?id=d8c6525a72ef89cb6aa5b556082bb4bc1f66ffc8

You possibly might want to backport the patch for wheezy.

Greetings,
Joachim

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