Bug 109550 – After upgrading to gnome 2.12, stickynotes and clock applets no longer load

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Chris Picton 2005-10-17 03:18:20 UTC]

After upgrading to gnome 2.12, and rebooting, my sticknotes and clock applets no
longer load.  I get the standard applet failed dialog:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet".
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

I also get the following in my ~/.xsession-errors

** (gnome-panel:20334): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1240: failed to load ap
plet OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet:
Failed to resolve, or extend
'!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_7/prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=x-small;locked_down=false

** (gnome-panel:20334): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1240: failed to load
applet OAFIID:GNOME_StickyNotesApplet:
Failed to resolve, or extend
'!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_3/prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=x-small;locked_down=false



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r9-chris-1
i686)=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9-chris-1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
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:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
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/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/gentoo
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 16bit X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa ao apm artworkextra asm asterisk
avi bash-completion bonobo cairo caps cdparanoia crypt cups curl curlwrappers
dbus dga divx4linux eds encode esd evo evo2 exif expat fam fame fbcon flac
foomaticdb gb gdbm gif gimpprint glitz glut gmail gnome gnomedb gpm gstreamer
gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl icq imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit ldap libg++
libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 mng mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls
nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python
quicktime readline real rtc samba sdl sis slang speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl
svg svga tcltk theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts videos vorbis wmf
xine xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-10-17 09:12:33 UTC]

Could you try removing and re-adding them?

[Comment 2 Chris Picton 2005-10-17 11:54:24 UTC]

Sorry, I should have said the following as well:

I have tried 'emerge unmerge gnome-applets' and 'emerge gnome-applets' as well
as removing the applets from the panel and adding them again.

Gives the same results.

[Comment 3 Derek Dolney 2005-10-17 14:05:44 UTC]

Clock stopped working for me, too. I re-emerged gnome-panel and it worked again.
(Clock is part of gnome-panel).

Stickynotes loads but immediately crashes, but I don't use them.

[Comment 4 Chris Picton 2005-10-18 04:44:28 UTC]

Thanks

After re-emerging gnome-panel, clock and sticknotes work.

I do not know why they did not work previously.  It may be due to some ordering
issues when running 'emerge gnome'.

[Comment 5 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-10-27 14:18:22 UTC]

local problem