On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 15:52 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit :
However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to
gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something
having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very
slow (as if a process in continually crashing and restarting) and the
appearance of the desktop cycles thru a series of subtle but
disturbing changes that I'll call "wiggling" for want of a better
word.
Finally, after 30 seconds or a minute, I get a pop-up that says
Question
The pannel encountered a problem while loading
"OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet".
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
[Don't delete] [Delete]
If I click [Don't Delete] it goes back to wiggling, and about 30
seconds later, I get the same popup.
If I click [Delete] it goes back to wiggling, but the popup doesn't
reappear.
After a couple of minutes of wiggling, I get a popup that says
There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon
Some things such as themes, sounds, or background settings, may not
work correctly.
The Settings Daemon restarted too many times
The last error message was:
System Exception:IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0:
Child process did not give an error message,
unknown failure occurred.
Gnome will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you login.
[close]
When I click [close] the wiggling stops and everything is (as far as
I can tell) normal until I log out
and try to login again.
Could you try to update the liborbit2 and orbit2 packages to the
1:2.14.4-1 version in unstable, and then tell me if that bug is still
happening?
I changed "etch" to "unstable" in sources.list. Then I did "aptitude
update && aptitude install liborbit2 orbit2". It installed orbit2 and
upgraded liborbit2 to version 1:2.14.4-1 and held back a whole bunch
of stuff. Then I logged out and back in again. No change. It still
goes all wiggly on me and finally gives me the second error popup.
(The first error popup isn't expected at this point -- I answered
"Delete" the first time it came up a while ago and haven't seen it
since.)
On an off chance, I rebooted the system. Still no change. Still all
wiggly.
Enjoy!
Rick
