Gnome Clock Panel Applet problem on SuSE 9.3
I have a SuSE 9.3 machine that was running fine, and without any changes (tm!), the gnome clock panel applet no longer works. Whenever I try to add it to the panel, I get a dialog box that states "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?" . I cannot determine whether the Gnome clock panel applet is in an RPM by itself or is in an RPM that has a bunch of other stuff as well to set about reinstalling just the clock applet. I found references to this issue when I googled for it. However, no solutions were presented. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem? or how to reinstall just the clock panel applet in Gnome? Thanks in advance for any help, --Moby
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2005-09-11 at 23:22 -0500, Moby wrote:
I have a SuSE 9.3 machine that was running fine, and without any changes (tm!), the gnome clock panel applet no longer works. Whenever I try to add it to the panel, I get a dialog box that states "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?" . I cannot determine whether the Gnome clock panel applet is in an RPM by itself or is in an RPM that has a bunch of other stuff as well to set about reinstalling just the clock applet.
The binary is /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-applets/clock-applet, belonging to gnome-panel-2.10.0-12.rpm.
I found references to this issue when I googled for it. However, no solutions were presented. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem? or how to reinstall just the clock panel applet in Gnome?
I don't know, it has worked faithfully here. The command line mine uses, for your reference, is: /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-applets/clock-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=43 which is totally cryptic for me without looking at the manual - which does not exist. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDJY93tTMYHG2NR9URAt/ZAJ4pMDipscM/02pOMSuXo+jvHAlDNACcCjS5 3wvahjfG2SaBigz4M8SyciM= =Yrzi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thanks to Stephen Carter and Carlos E..R. for suggestions on how to troubleshoot. I verified the following: 1) The gnome clock applet crashes for all users, even root. 2) Deleted out .xml files that refer to the clock applet in ~/.gnome/desktop/applets/panel still has no effect, the applet continues to crash. 3) Loggin in with a newly created account still causes the clock applet to crash. Any idea how to proceed further to fix this problem? Thanks again, --Moby Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Sunday 2005-09-11 at 23:22 -0500, Moby wrote:
I have a SuSE 9.3 machine that was running fine, and without any changes (tm!), the gnome clock panel applet no longer works. Whenever I try to add it to the panel, I get a dialog box that states "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?" . I cannot determine whether the Gnome clock panel applet is in an RPM by itself or is in an RPM that has a bunch of other stuff as well to set about reinstalling just the clock applet.
The binary is /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-applets/clock-applet, belonging to gnome-panel-2.10.0-12.rpm.
I found references to this issue when I googled for it. However, no solutions were presented. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem? or how to reinstall just the clock panel applet in Gnome?
I don't know, it has worked faithfully here.
The command line mine uses, for your reference, is:
/opt/gnome/lib/gnome-applets/clock-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=43
which is totally cryptic for me without looking at the manual - which does not exist.
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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-- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
On Friday 16 September 2005 23:12, Moby wrote:
Thanks to Stephen Carter and Carlos E..R. for suggestions on how to troubleshoot. I verified the following:
1) The gnome clock applet crashes for all users, even root. 2) Deleted out .xml files that refer to the clock applet in ~/.gnome/desktop/applets/panel still has no effect, the applet continues to crash. 3) Loggin in with a newly created account still causes the clock applet to crash.
Any idea how to proceed further to fix this problem? Thanks again,
Try running /opt/gnome/lib/gnome-applets/clock-applet from a command line and observe the error messages, which will hopefully come Also, have a look at the file .xsession-errors in the home directory, and see if you can find any error messages
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