Series of GNOME errors upon startup

I have the same problem, running a 9.04 to 9.10 upgraded NBR. I have had the problem since upgrading to an alpha version, and I still have the problem now.

I wonder if this is the result of a race condition during startup. If I log out, and log in again, I never have this problem. As such, I suspect this might not be a bug in gnome, but maybe gdm. I notice that gdm does not depend on dbus being started, should it?

However, I believe it is Netbook Remix specific, I don't have the problem on my desktop running regular Ubuntu.

I added "and started dbus" as a condition for starting gdm, but I am still having this problem (and it seems to take longer to boot up). I guess it must be something else.

xsession-errors contains the following:
** (gnome-panel:1615): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_WindowPicker:
Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'
** (gnome-panel:1615): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_GoHome:
Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'

This bug might be similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/294412

gnome-panel gives an error when it cannot find the orbit socket. Trying to strace bonobo-activation-server to see what happens there, but I haven't been able yet to get it to fail and get strace to work.

read(18, "GIOP\1\2\1\1\204\1\0\0", 12) = 12
read(18, "\20Q\231\t\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\1\1\1\1\1\0\1\5\t\1\1\0\0\0\0\0003\0\0\0OAFAID:[OAFIID:GNOME_GoHome_Factory,raf,localhost]\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 388) = 388
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 20
fcntl64(20, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getuid32() = 1000
connect(20, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/orbit-raf/linc-66b-0-435d1a6e17bb5"}, 42) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(20) = 0
socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 20
fcntl64(20, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
fcntl64(20, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getuid32() = 1000
connect(20, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/orbit-raf/linc-66b-0-435d1a6e17bb5"}, 42) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(20) = 0
write(2, "\n** (gnome-panel.real:1606): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control"..., 203) = 203

They failing applets are quitting (and cleaning up the socket that gnome-panel is looking for). From the strace for bonobo-activation-server (bonobo-activation-server has its output redirected to /dev/null, so it doesn't get stored anywhere):

1713 14:15:51.291582 write(2, "\n(window-picker-applet:1713): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control died - abnormal exit condition\n", 105) = 105
1713 14:15:51.299865 write(2, "\n(window-picker-applet:1713): Bonobo-WARNING **: Leaked a total of 4 refs to 2 bonobo object(s)\n", 96) = 96

I don't know where else to look.

I receive the same as above. Have been getting it ever since the alpha. A quick reboot seems to fix it but it will happen again.
System: Dell 9 Mini - 2GB of RAM, 16GB SSD.

Looks like my #486023 is a duplicate for this one.

I have this too on my Acer Aspire One NB. It is NBR-specific as my desktop PC is fine.

I thought it was just a teething issue so I wiped my home area and logged in again. That seemed to fix it but alas it's come back just now. :( It takes age to boot up and is reading/writing to the disk a lot during boot up when the problem occurs.

Any workarounds or fixes coming up soon?

If your seeing this bug on a system with an SSD, than this is most likely the result of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libatasmart/+bug/445852. Please try the workaround documented there. That fixed the problem for me.

Thanks!
Yes, I do have an SSD in my AA1
I put the SuperTalent 32Gb SSD into my AA1 (previously it had the slower Samsung 8GB SSD in it)
I'll try that workaround then. Thanks again.

I've got this problem too. Acer Aspire One with upgraded SSD and ram. I'll try the fix listed above.

Im having these applet errors as well. I believe my problems started after I installed Kubuntu on top of my Ubuntu. Logging out and back in does not recreate the problem and the apps that did not load, are working again.

This happens consistently for me on the first login after booting, with several applets failing to load. If I then log out and log back in, they load correctly. If I reboot, they fail to load again. Some kind of race condition with something not loading fast enough?

Karmic
Linux inspiron 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

+1 to confirm on a 64bit fresh install after having the same problem with an old working system that got broken after an upgrade..... not happy ........ However my Laptop has never given me a problem and it's a fresh install yesterday with full updates.....

I'm looking to see if a debian package might work.....

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