I have done a fresh install on a new machine (celeron based). I installed gdesklets 0.32 (current ~x86) but when I try launching gdesklets in a terminal, I get the animation trying to connect to daemon but an error message pops up saying gdesklets has crashed and I can inform developpers. The animation continues after I close the error box so I guess that it is the daemon which is failing. I have another machine (P4-M pentium laptop) with gdesklets working fine with the same USE flags (+- one or two) but much more ~x86 packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords I have searched the forums and others have had the same problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=246758&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=75 I have tried the proposed solutions but without any success. I've compared version numbers and USE flags of packages that this thread suggested to reinstall on my two machines and they are the same. I've also created a new user to rule out gnome configuration issues but had the same error. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fresh install of gentoo with gdesklets 2. in terminal, run gdesklets (or gdesklets start or gdesklets shell) Actual Results: error box pops up saying gdesklets has crashed Expected Results: launch gdesklets # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 26 2004, 14:33:00)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa artworkextra avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups dedicated divx4linux dvd dvdread encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imap imlib ithreads java joystick jpeg junit kde lesstif libwww mad matroska mikmod mime motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses network nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png pwdb python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype wmf xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
is anyone going to action this, as i believe it's affecting a serious amout of users
I have discovered the problem with this crash (too me ages!) Basically, gdesklets requires version 2.8.2 of libgtop, not the version 2.8.1 which is currently installed on unmasked systems Please update the ebuilds to reflect this dependancy
It works! Adding gnome-base/libgtop ~x86 did the trick for me! An updated ebuild would be nice.
It's been done already, look for it in the next version in portage :)
The dependency for libgtop-2.8.2 is in the latest unstable version of gdesklets (0.34.3).
