With the recent moving of GNOME 2.12 to unstable, the bonobo component was either not unmasked or was not updated. This has caused problems with Epiphany (Bonobo had an unexpected error when attempting to locate the automation object), and also I think with Mozilla and Firefox (all it says is "bus error", not sure what that means). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Epiphany 2. Click 'restart application' 3. Read thy error message OR 1. 'emerge --search libbonobo' Actual Results: "Evolution could not be started, because an unexpected error was recieved from Bonobo while attempting to locate the activation object." OR * gnome-base/libbonobo Latest version available: 2.10.1 Latest version installed: 2.10.1 Size of downloaded files: 1,326 kB Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/ Description: GNOME CORBA framework License: LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 Expected Results: Epiphany should have started normally, displayed a window, let me browse the web. * gnome-base/libbonobo Latest version available: 2.12.1 Latest version installed: 2.12.1 Size of downloaded files: x Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/ Description: GNOME CORBA framework License: LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi aim alsa amarok amd amr ao apache apache2 apm applet aqua_theme arts artworkextra asm atk audiofile automount avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts blender-game bonobo bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 c++ cairo ccache cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cegui cg crypt cups curl dbus devil dhcp dvd dvdr dvdread eds effects emboss encode epiphany esd fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdb gdbm gif glx gmail gmailtimestamps gnome gnome-print gnomecanvas gnomedb gnuplot gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde lcd ldap libg++ libwww lirc logitech-mouse lzo mad mapeditor mikmod mmx motif mouse mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer musepack music nautilus ncurses network nls objc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline real reiserfs rtc samba screen sdk sdl speex spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs xanim xinerama xml xml2 xmms xrandr xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Correction: Epiphany error message actually reads: "Epiphany can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting to locate the automation object."
Found some additional info about this: Apparently Mozilla, Firefox, and Epiphany will all work when run as the root user, all completely normally. It's only when run as myself that they do not work.
I've identified the root cause of the problem, and that is the file libgkplugin.so in the /usr/lib/mozilla/components . Moving the file to the parent directory (/usr/lib/mozilla) seems to be a temporary workaround for the problem. Not sure what the plugin does yet. Cheers!
The comments about GNOME 2.12 and libbonobo don't make much sense. There is not a libbonobo-2.12.1. Regarding epiphany/mozilla/firefox, please attach the output you get running them from a terminal. If the process is crashing, please try to provide an usable backtrace to study the problem. Also, please include what version of mozilla and other browers you have installed in your system.
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