Robert, Yes I can confirm this works, fantastic. I have built/installed root-portal (from source) and it had installed a file "root-portal_applet.gnorba" in /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA/services. I moved the file to /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA/services, removed the /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA directory and then created the symbolic links you said below. Works fine then. I expect anyone building gnome applets will get this problem with SuSE 7.2 - if you get the "Unable to reach the control-center" warning, this is the way to fix it. Many thanks, Jamie On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, rjwohlfar wrote:

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:22:40 +0000 (GMT)

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I've tracked this down a little further and I'm getting the following printed to the console when I'm running the control center:

** WARNING ** : Unable to reach the control-center

I had a similar problem crop up this weekend. Installed SuSE 7.2 last week. And it had been using my old GNOME configuration (from SuSE 6.4) just fine. Then I added a new applet to the GNOME Panel. Lost all applets and the Control Center!

Here's the solution I came up with... rm /etc/CORBA rm /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA ln -s /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA /etc/CORBA ln -s /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA

I did check the directories /etc/CORBA and /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA before deleting. They were both empty. If you have files in there. Move the files to /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA first!

CORBA is how GNOME embeds the stuff into the Panel and Control Center. I had trouble about 6 months ago with CORBA being setup wrong. That's what made me look for the directories. With the symlinks, the Panel and Control Center were back to normal.

If this solves your problem, would you please forward the message to "suse-linux-e@suse.com" and "feedback@suse.com"? I'm having some trouble with my e-mail still...

Thanks!

-- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com