Hi! I've just uploaded ORBit 2.8.1 to experimental. Unfortunately, this version is troublesome. Since Michael Meeks (the upstream maintainer) had the great idea to internalize linc into this "binary-compatible" release of ORBit, bonobo-activation breaks. The problem is as follows: When a socket is about to created in /tmp/orbit-user the linc_get_tmpdir() function seems to fail. Therefore bonobo-activation tries to open a file in the root directory which obviously fails and leads to subsequent failures.
I don't know the exact reasons for this failure, so if anything has any useful insights or knows where to dig, please let me know. When I simply tried to rebuild bonobo-activation, it failed telling me something along the lines of "bonobo-activation is obsolete, don't use it". So, for now I resorted to conflicting with libbonono-activation4. This means that the whole of GNOME would need to be rebuilt. At the moment, I am devoid of a clue what to try next. Any ideas? - Sebastian
