Not only does it fail to start - but if you insist on adding invest- applet to the panel, it turns out, a process is spawned in the background anyway; and at that, a process that you cannot kill - because it respawns itself; this is what I get on Natty:
$ ps axf | grep -i inve 1846 ? Sl 0:00 python /usr/lib/gnome-applets/invest-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Invest_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=26 8115 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep --color=tty -i inve $ kill 1846 # and say Delete to "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:Invest_Applet"." # still a new process is spawned $ ps axf | grep -i inve 8350 pts/0 R+ 0:00 \_ grep --color=tty -i inve 8190 ? Sl 0:00 python /usr/lib/gnome-applets/invest-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Invest_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=26 .... and that sort of stuff persists after reboot. So, this is the procedure that I did to finally clean it up: # look up invest applet via gconf panel/applets: $ grep -ri invest $(find ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/ -type f) ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_9/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_19/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_13/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_10/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_17/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_14/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_7/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_11/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_6/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_21/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_18/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_20/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_15/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_5/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_12/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_16/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_22/%gconf.xml: <stringvalue>OAFIID:Invest_Applet</stringvalue> # collect dirs where invest applet has been stored: $INVDIRS=$(for ix in $(grep --files-with-matches -ri invest $(find ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/ -type f)) ; do iz=$(dirname $ix); echo $iz; done) $ echo "$INVDIRS" ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_9 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_19 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_13 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_10 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_17 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_14 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_7 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_11 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_6 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_21 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_18 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_20 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_15 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_5 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_12 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_16 ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_22 # > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tiphow-to-restore-accidently-deleted-top-panel-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid.html # > gconftool-2 --shutdown # > rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel # since we cannot kill invest applet; go down to shell # sudo telinit 1? Nope, just shows screen - doesn't drop to shell! # Magic SysRq kills processes, but doesn't drop to runlevel 1 # sudo telinit 1 simply freezes # MUST reboot - and choose recovery console! # recovery console - choose netroot (shell with networking) # recovery console logs in as root - go back to your user: su - username # so again: $INVDIRS=$(for ix in $(grep --files-with-matches -ri invest $(find ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/ -type f)) ; do iz=$(dirname $ix); echo $iz; done) # check - here no quotes for $INVDIRS: for ix in $INVDIRS; do echo rm -rf $ix; done # execute for ix in $INVDIRS; do rm -rf $ix; done # check - should be deleted ok ls ~/.gconf/apps/panel/applets/ # reboot sudo shutdown -r now # after reboot, check again: $ ps axf | grep -i invest 2409 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ grep --color=tty -i invest # 'tis clean! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775387 Title: Invest-applet fails to start after upgrade to Natty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/775387/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
