[Solved] Gnome Clock applet not working anymore

schneida · 2010-04-10 16:44:55

Hey, i just did a pacman -Syu and now my clock applet doesn't start up anymore. I just get

** (gnome-panel:2900): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1273: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet:
System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Kindprozess gab keine Fehlermeldung aus. Ein unbekannter Störfall trat auf

The last message in german means something like: The childprocess didn't output a failure. An unknown error occured.

Anybody is having the same error?

Last edited by schneida (2010-04-14 18:48:47)

rmanola · 2010-04-14 16:50:08

I'm having the same issue here after the upgrade.

rmanola · 2010-04-14 17:05:36

Well, after an
ldd /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet

I could see that a library was upgraded but the clock applet was pointing to the old version that was removed. In my case, the library is:
libkrb5.so.25

But there was only a libkrb5.so.26 at /usr/lib

So I smylinked:
ln -s /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.26.0.0 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.25

Folks, is it safe to symlink a newer library to make the program believe it`s using an older one? I think archlinux should have some tool to automatically do that kind of verification and fix for us. Similar to the revdep-rebuild or lafilefixer from gentoo.

schneida · 2010-04-14 18:48:28

Ok, in my guess it wasn't even an pacman error. I was missing libgsf and libgsf-gnome.

For me this is solved.

jowilkin · 2010-04-14 21:07:21

I had the same issue after the update to gnome 2.30. I also had a couple other issues, I was using mintmenu from AUR and it stopped working similarly. NetworkManager applet also was unhappy. I did a brute force solution of

pacman -Rsnd gnome gnome-extras mintmenu
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra
rebuild mintmenu from AUR

And all worked fine again.

pawn_island · 2010-06-21 15:43:47

Faced this very problem right now after I did a full system upgrade. I am not a fan of creating symbolic links to old library versions. The following worked for me:

cd /var/abs/extra/gnome-panel && makepkg -s -i -r -f

outr · 2010-06-21 16:06:48

This issue seems to come up every now and then. After a system uprade today my clock-applet was pointing to an old version of libedataserver. Rebuild fixed the problem.

Last edited by outr (2010-06-21 16:07:24)

Woofie · 2010-06-21 16:47:30

@pawn_island: Thanks for it. It work for me too.

Raqua · 2010-06-21 17:57:42

Had the same problem.

/usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.11 was missing because it was upgraded to /usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.13.
Symlink soved the problem.

drama · 2010-06-21 18:01:52

i too face the same problem. However i when i search for the evolution-data-server package on the website i found differences with what is listed in the file list and what is actually contained in the package. the file list shows the foll;owing

usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so
usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.11
usr/lib/libedataserver-1.2.so.11.0.1

Which is what its says is missing

ldd /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet | grep "not found"

returns

libedataserver-1.2.so.11 => not found

But on my system i have libedataserver-1.2.so.13

ls /usr/lib/libedataserver

Returns

libedataserver-1.2.so libedataserverui-1.2.so
libedataserver-1.2.so.13 libedataserverui-1.2.so.8
libedataserver-1.2.so.13.0.1 libedataserverui-1.2.so.8.1.1

These are different from what the file list says is included.

So i dont know if the file list on the webpage is wrong or if something went wrong with evolution-data-server or what. A rebuild of gnome-panle fixes it though.

cybertorture · 2010-06-21 18:26:49

@pawn_island: Thanks for it. It work for me too. +1

Carlwill · 2010-06-21 18:34:05

So what do I need to do to fix this? Rebuild Gnome Panel or create a symbolic link?

pawn_island · 2010-06-21 18:46:19

Thanks Woofie and cybertorture. But bad things are happening. Now the GNOME screen saver is locked forever. I don't know if this us because of the upgrade or our building of the panel. Trying to figure out a solution...

Last edited by pawn_island (2010-06-21 18:47:36)

Woofie · 2010-06-21 18:58:06

@pawn_island: What does it mean "locked forever"? My screen saver seems to work fine.

new update "gnome-panel-2.30.0-2" was released and several other packages which may unlock screen saver again.

Last edited by Woofie (2010-06-21 19:04:49)

pawn_island · 2010-06-21 19:41:42

@Woofie: Good for you. I meant that once started, the screen saver does not let me unlock it. I do get to enter a password. But that is it; The text-box does not go away with the screen continuing to remain locked. There are other problems though. Using the following tiny-script:

#!/bin/bash

DIR=/usr/bin

for file in $DIR/*; do
    if ldd $file | grep -q 'not found'; then
        echo ">>> $file"
    fi
done

Another executable, /usr/bin/playdv pointing to missing libraries was found. Came to know the package that installed it by:

pacman -Q --owns /usr/bin/playdv
/usr/bin/playdv is owned by libdv 1.0.0-3

Then build the library using ABS:

cd /var/abs/extra/libdv && makepkg --clean --install --syncdeps

Scrivener · 2010-06-21 19:42:08

I had the same problem right after the update. I waited a few minutes and noticed that evolution-data-server and gnome-panel got updated. Then I ran pacman -Syu and everything is working normally again.

Woofie · 2010-06-21 19:51:29

@pawn_island: Sorry that i didn't understand your previous post.. I try screen saver with lock screen setting but seems work normaly and login back to session. As Scrivener wrote the last update didn't solve problem for you?

pawn_island · 2010-06-22 04:14:45

@Woofie: That is absolutely fine. I went on a wild goose chase.

As told by Scrivener after a new sysupgrade everything seems to be fine. Thanks!

oraerk · 2010-10-20 07:23:14

Got this error after latest sysupgrade (which was yesterday).
ldd /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet seems to be ok.
Logs shows nothing. Google shows nothing to. I'm out of ideas on how to resolve it. Can anyone help.

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