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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