It's masked with: # Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org> (07 Dec 2010) # Part of GNOME 2.32 release set by breaks my machine as hell # Needs more testing before unleashing >=gnome-base/libbonobo-2.32 Since it didn't cause for me any problems, I would like to get that problems tracked and a bit more explained on a bug that can block Gnome 2.32 tracker :-) Thanks Reproducible: Always
Problem is simple, unmask libbonobo, reboot, all applets except the one not using bonobo or shipped in gnome-panel 2.32 itself are broken. I get the "communication failure" error message if I start with gnome-panel --replace. I have had this problem twice now, the first time I masked it in overlay when I didn't have a complete gnome 2.32 setup (fair enough), but I'm still getting it right now. This is all on my ~amd64 box and I have yet to try on my ~x86 one, but it is going to take some time to build since it is a pentium III @550Mhz.
Ah, yes, I see it now. I didn't see it before because I have my session configured for launching tomboy at startup instead of using its applet (that is still using bonobo), then, I forgot my configuration and was thinking its applet was working fine... but I was wrong :-/ Will need to investigate this when I have time
Exact errors: ** (gnome-panel:6493): WARNING **: Failed to load applet OAFIID:SensorsApplet: System exception: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 ** (gnome-panel:6493): WARNING **: Failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_NetspeedApplet: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface: (gnome-panel:6493): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window ** (gnome-panel:6493): WARNING **: Failed to load applet OAFIID:TomboyApplet: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface:
I think we should simply drop this version as this won't ever be solved
it looks like debian is shipping it in testing but otherwise I agree with having it removed.
+ 24 Dec 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -libbonobo-2.32.1.ebuild: + Drop broken version that won't be fixed ever since libbonobo is deprecated for + a long time and unmaintained by upstream +