Fwd: [Gnome] deskbar-applet broken, how to find out what's wrong?

[Magnus Therning]

Hoping for more luck on this mailing list.

/M


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From: Magnus Therning <magnus@...>
Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Subject: [Gnome] deskbar-applet broken, how to find out what's wrong?
To: ML Debian-User <debian-user@...>


After a recent upgrade my deskbar-applet isn't starting any longer.  The
problem is that the only feed-back I have is a dialogue stating that
deskbar has quitted unexpectedly and I have a choice between reloading
or not.  Not so helpful.

The obvious places don't seem to get anything written to them,
~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/**.  Where can I find a trace of what's
happening when I try to add the applet?

/M

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[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 15:27 +0100, Magnus Therning a écrit :
> After a recent upgrade my deskbar-applet isn't starting any longer.  The
> problem is that the only feed-back I have is a dialogue stating that
> deskbar has quitted unexpectedly and I have a choice between reloading
> or not.  Not so helpful.
>
> The obvious places don't seem to get anything written to them,
> ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/**.  Where can I find a trace of what's
> happening when I try to add the applet?

You can launch it from a terminal.
Run /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet from it right when the dialog
shows up, and immediately click on "reload" after the launch. You should
be able to debug it like a regular Python application when doing this
way.

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[Magnus Therning]

2009/3/30 Josselin Mouette <joss@...>:

> Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 15:27 +0100, Magnus Therning a écrit :
>> After a recent upgrade my deskbar-applet isn't starting any longer.  The
>> problem is that the only feed-back I have is a dialogue stating that
>> deskbar has quitted unexpectedly and I have a choice between reloading
>> or not.  Not so helpful.
>>
>> The obvious places don't seem to get anything written to them,
>> ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/**.  Where can I find a trace of what's
>> happening when I try to add the applet?
>
> You can launch it from a terminal.
> Run /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet from it right when the dialog
> shows up, and immediately click on "reload" after the launch. You should
> be able to debug it like a regular Python application when doing this
> way.

How strange, running '/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet -w' works
fine, no problems at all.

Then I launched it in a terminal, and proceeded to add it to the
panel.  It failed twice, and the third time I pressed "reload" it
appeared in the panel, and it works.  There is one worrying error
message in the terminal though:

  (deskbar-applet:4270): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control
died - abnormal exit condition

Now I have to see whether it stays there when I log out and back in again...

/M

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[Magnus Therning]

Magnus Therning wrote:

> 2009/3/30 Josselin Mouette <joss@...>:
>> Le lundi 30 mars 2009 à 15:27 +0100, Magnus Therning a écrit :
>>> After a recent upgrade my deskbar-applet isn't starting any longer.  The
>>> problem is that the only feed-back I have is a dialogue stating that
>>> deskbar has quitted unexpectedly and I have a choice between reloading
>>> or not.  Not so helpful.
>>>
>>> The obvious places don't seem to get anything written to them,
>>> ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/**.  Where can I find a trace of what's
>>> happening when I try to add the applet?
>> You can launch it from a terminal.
>> Run /usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet from it right when the dialog
>> shows up, and immediately click on "reload" after the launch. You should
>> be able to debug it like a regular Python application when doing this
>> way.
>
> How strange, running '/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/deskbar-applet -w' works
> fine, no problems at all.
>
> Then I launched it in a terminal, and proceeded to add it to the
> panel.  It failed twice, and the third time I pressed "reload" it
> appeared in the panel, and it works.  There is one worrying error
> message in the terminal though:
>
>   (deskbar-applet:4270): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control
> died - abnormal exit condition
>
> Now I have to see whether it stays there when I log out and back in again...

Same behaviour as before, ie it doesn't work.

Running it in a terminal doesn't seem to trigger the behaviour.  Aren't
errors that occur when adding items to the panels caught anywhere?

Am I really the only one who's seeing this behaviour?

/M

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