Bug 273360 – x11-plugins/desklet-starterbar: home starter does not work

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Adam Bowers 2009-06-09 14:28:27 UTC]

If I click on the home folder icon the home directory fails to open.  After some trouble shooting I have discovered that this behavior only happens when gDesklets is started via the login session.  If I kill the daemon and start it manually, the home directory opens as normal.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login into Gnome
2. Click home icon.
3. Type 'gdesklets stop' in terminal.
4. Type 'gdesklets start' in terminal (with or without --no-tray-icon).

Actual Results:  
Home directory fails to open.

Expected Results:  
Home directory should open.

bowerad1@PC070212 ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X5460_@_3.16GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:45:02 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p24
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.0
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.29
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdr consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dvd dvdr eds encode esd exif fam ffmpeg flac ftp fuse gdbm gif glibc-compat20 gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 java javascript jpeg kerberos ldap libedit libnotify lzma lzo mad midi mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds profile pulseaudio python readline samba sdl slang smp spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wmf x264 xattr xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-06-17 20:35:23 UTC]

don't know how this package landed into gnome herd but it should probably be moved to gdesklets herd.

[Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-06-23 12:02:28 UTC]

if nobody objects, I'll send this package to maintainer-wanted in a week.

[Comment 3 Joe Sapp (RETIRED) 2009-06-25 11:56:45 UTC]

Feel free to reassign it if you want Gilles, but I don't want to try to maintain it any more.  Upstream has long deprecated support for the code being used in this package ("Sensors") and there's somewhat of a replacement (http://gdesklets.de/index.php?q=desklet/view/101), though I don't have an ebuild for it.  Not to mention the other software that does similar things (i.e. gnome-extra/avant-window-navigator)...

[Comment 4 Joe Sapp (RETIRED) 2009-06-25 11:59:16 UTC]

I'm not sure this is a gdesklets bug but probably one with desklet-starterbar.  If you don't feel comfortable poking around the desklet's/Sensor's code, I think dropping the package from the repository is the only recourse (see comment #3 for why).

[Comment 5 Joe Sapp (RETIRED) 2010-03-31 16:59:13 UTC]

Dropped from repository.