Gnome 2.12 panel problem

otx · 2005-09-12 06:16:03

Hi,

Yesterday I installed the Gnome 2.12 from testing, and I can't add certain items to the panel, like the clock, the windows list, the show desktop, the trash and so on, below is the error message after I tried to add the clock for example. The problem is the same for all users, including root.

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The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet".

Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

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Is there someone who is able to use these items ?

JGC · 2005-09-12 06:20:39

Try replacing fam with gamin, somehow gamin exports extra symbols fam doesn't have.

otx · 2005-09-12 08:00:24

Thanks for your suggestion, rigth now I'm not in front of my computer, but I will try in a couple of hour later. As a matter of fact the pacman suggested this when I updated Gnome but I choosed not to install this. Can you tell me if I have to replace fam with gamin in the Daemons string too? Or I need only to install this?

JGC · 2005-09-12 11:55:01

You can remove fam from the daemons array, as fam works as root user with a main process, while gamin works with a per-user daemon that gets launched when needed by the library.

otx · 2005-09-12 13:48:36

Hi, I changed fam with gamin, but no change in the panel behavior, there are still a lot of items that can't be added to the panel
If You have further ideas on what can be wrong please let me know.
And thanks for your help!

KENTOSI · 2005-09-14 12:43:12

Hi,

I fixed the problem by upgrading evolution-data-server (or something similar to that name).

It's something to do with how the clock applet links with the evolution email client.

JGC · 2005-09-14 20:51:33

The dependencies aren't versioned for all packages, but we assume that a user upgrades all, not just one package. The clock applet shows appointments from evolution-data-server on the calender, so it requires evolution-data-server to run.

rinzai · 2005-09-15 12:35:28

I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it: I had a look at all the dependencies of gnome-applets and their dependencies (pacman -Qi) and started to sync what hadn't been sync'ed for whatever reason...the packages that got updated where libwnck and gdbm...

So I guess running
$ pacman -Sy libwnck gdbm
should fix the problem

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#1 2005-09-12 06:16:03

Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#2 2005-09-12 06:20:39

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#3 2005-09-12 08:00:24

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#4 2005-09-12 11:55:01

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#5 2005-09-12 13:48:36

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#6 2005-09-14 12:43:12

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#7 2005-09-14 20:51:33

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

#8 2005-09-15 12:35:28

Re: Gnome 2.12 panel problem

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