Bug 153390 – nautilus and gnome-panel won't start because of bonobo error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE

[Description Tony Taylor 2006-10-29 20:05:10 UTC]

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Trying to start a GNOME session doesnt work (the bonobo related parts anyway,
which is most of the DE) with libbonobo 2.16.0 and shermans-aquarium 2.2.0. This
error is given-

Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when
attempting to register the file manager view server.

$ bonobo-activation-run-query --register-servers
says that it has a problem parsing  
/usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_ShermansaquariumApplet.server
on line 29, although the file is only 28 lines long.

unmerge shermans-aquarium and all is well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.# emerge =gnome-base/libbonobo-2.16.0
2.# emerge  =gnome-extra/shermans-aquarium-2.2.0
3.launch GNOME session

Actual Results:  
pretty blue screen.  but no panel or desktop.  no bonobo processes running.  and
this error 

(process:16672): Bonobo-Activation-CRITICAL **: bonobo_activation_query:
assertion `ac != NULL' failed
NULL result failed


Expected Results:  
lovely gnome interface with desktop, panel, and swimming fishes(i won't miss them).

this install was my first gentoo install (which i hear you shouldnt keep) and i
have been running it for about 10 months breaking it badly quite often .  as a
result it is somewhat hacked together (but boy have i learned alot).  hopefully
thats not what caused this bug.  I am gonna call this a blocker because it
prevented me from using gnome at all.  


# emerge --info


Portage 2.1.2_rc1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0,
2.6.17-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:30:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
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"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/initng-portage
/usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee /usr/local/overlays/tonys"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aalib alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups
dlloader dri dvd dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran
ftp gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv imlib input_devices_keyboard
input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jack jack-tmpfs jpeg kernel_linux ladspa
libcaca lzw lzw-tiff mad mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg opengl
pam pcre pdf perl png portaudio ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline
reflection sdl session sndfile spell spl ssl svg symlink tcpd tiff
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv
video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis xorg xpm xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp 2006-10-29 20:07:48 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153389 ***

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-10-30 00:40:06 UTC]

Dupe.