Bugzilla Bug 146635

don't know if this is in any kind related to
this:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360320 because I actually
have python 2.4.3 here but the symptom is the same. I get no pop-up menu on
right mouse click. this is what /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet -w says:

Running installed deskbar, using
[/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/deskbar:$PYTHONPATH]
Data Dir: deskbar-applet
Handlers Dir: ['/home/koto/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers',
'/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers']
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/deskbar/DeskbarApplet.py:10:
DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/deskbar/ui/About.py on line 25, but no
encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
  from deskbar.ui.About import show_about
Binding Global shortcut <Alt>F3 to focus the deskbar
Running with options: {'popup_mode': False, 'cuemiac': False, 'do_trace':
False, 'standalone': True}
Starting Deskbar instance: <gnome.applet.Applet object (PanelApplet) at
0xb5915e8c> None
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'deskbar-applet-panel-h' not present in
theme (or Icon 'deskbar-applet-panel-h.png' not present in theme)
Set entry width: 20
Layout changed to 1

(deskbar-applet:21320): Bonobo-WARNING **: Can't find 'Deskbar_Applet.xml' to
load ui from
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'deskbar-applet-panel-h' not present in
theme (or Icon 'deskbar-applet-panel-h.png' not present in theme)
Set entry width: 20
Layout changed to 1
Changing UI to: Entriac
Loading module 'Mail (Address Book)' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/evolution.py.
***
*** The file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/google-live.py
(GoogleLiveHandler) decided to not load itself: You need to install the SOAPpy
python module.
***
Loading module 'Files and Folders Search' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/programs.py.
Loading module 'Dictionary' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/programs.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'gdict' not present in theme (or Icon
'gdict' not present in theme)
Loading module 'Developer Documentation' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/programs.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'devhelp' not present in theme (or Icon
'devhelp' not present in theme)
Loading module 'Programs' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/programs.py.
Loading module 'Beagle' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/beagle-static.py.
Loading module 'Files, Folders and Places' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/files.py.
Loading module 'Beagle Live' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/beagle-live.py.
***
*** The file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/epiphany.py
(EpiphanyBookmarksHandler) decided to not load itself: Epiphany is not your
preferred browser, not using it.
***
Loading module 'History' from file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/history.py.
Loading module 'Yahoo! Search' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/yahoo.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'yahoo' not present in theme (or Icon
'yahoo.png' not present in theme)
Loading module 'Web Searches' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/mozilla.py.
Loading module 'Web History' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/mozilla.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'epiphany-history' not present in theme
(or Icon 'epiphany-history.png' not present in theme)
Loading module 'Web Bookmarks' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/mozilla.py.
***
*** The file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/galago.py (GalagoHandler) decided
to not load itself: Waiting for python bindings of galago. Should allow to send
IM by typing name.
***
***
*** The file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/galeon.py
(GaleonBookmarksHandler) decided to not load itself: Galeon is not your
preferred browser, not using it.
***
Loading module 'Computer Actions' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/gdmactions.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'gpm-suspend-to-ram' not present in theme
(or Icon 'gpm-suspend-to-ram.png' not present in theme)
Loading module 'del.icio.us Bookmarks' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/desklicious.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'delicious' not present in theme (or Icon
'delicious.png' not present in theme)
Loading module 'Web' from file /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/web_address.py.
Loading module 'Window Switcher' from file
/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/handlers/iswitch-window.py.
Error:load_icon:Icon Load Error:Icon 'panel-window-menu' not present in theme
(or Icon 'panel-window-menu.png' not present in theme)
Initializing Programs

(deskbar-applet:21320): Gnome-WARNING **: gnome-program.c:1015: Directory
properties not set correctly.  Cannot locate application specific files.

(deskbar-applet:21320): Gnome-WARNING **: gnome-program.c:1015: Directory
properties not set correctly.  Cannot locate application specific files.
Initializing Beagle
Initializing Files, Folders and Places
Error:_scan_bookmarks_files: uri must be a gnomevfs.URI or a string
Initializing Mail (Address Book)
Initializing Web Searches
Error:MozillaSmartBookmarksDirParser:cannot parse smrt bookmark:'name':bookmark
/home/koto/.mozilla/firefox/sht57gw7.default/searchplugins/wikipedia.src
Match selected:  <beagle-static.BeagleMatch instance at 0xb4b21c0c>

(deskbar-applet:21320): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control died -
abnormal exit condition

I can't reproduce it either, at least not with the locale.
What's your locale or LANG? emerge --info?

LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=




Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-rc6
i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-rc6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:00:07 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r3
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config
/usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/X11/app-defaults/ /etc/X11/gdm/ /etc/dbus-1/
/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/ /etc/init.d/ /etc/openldap/
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sound/events /etc/ssl/ /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/xdg/ /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://toughguy.caltech.edu/pub/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="en_IE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 asf avi beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2
cdr cli crypt cups dbus divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds
elibc_glibc emboss encode evo fam firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran
gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gstreamer gstreamer10 gtk2 gtkhtml hal imlib inotify
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics
input_devices_vmmouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux libg++ libnotify
libwww logrotate mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls
nntp nptl nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pnp pppd python qt3 qt4
quicktime readline reflection sdl session speex spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd
tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts udev userland_GNU
userlocales v4l2 video_cards_radeon video_cards_v4l video_cards_vmware vidix
vorbis win32codecs wmf xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

following information from
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3591526.html#3591526
did resolve this issue:


Try this..

Edit file defs.py in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/deskbar:

DATA_DIR = "/usr/share"
LIB_DIR = "/usr/lib"
VERSION = "2.16.0"
PACKAGE = "deskbar-applet"
PYTHONDIR = "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages"

And change DATA_DIR, to your data directory, in my case, /usr/share, so when
deskbar start's it will find /usr/share/deskbar-applet and it's files. 

I had the same problem with 2.16. Deskbar was throwing lots of errors for me as
well (like already posted). I did not have the problem before 2.16 (including
2.15 if I remember correctly).

The DATA_DIR was equal to "". Setting it to "/usr/share" fixed the problem and
the errors.

Any idea how DATA_DIR was getting set wrong?  (it's right here...)  Maybe it's
an environment-during-merging problem?

This seems to be a dup of bug 148684. It was recently fixed in portage.

Aha, you're right, thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148684 ***