quick-lounge-applet makes gnome-panel segfault on Ubuntu Natty

Bug #772992 reported by EdSena
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: quick-lounge-applet

On a fresh install of Ubuntu Natty, whenever I add the Quick Lounge to a panel, gnome-panel crashes and I have to either uninstall the quick lounge package or use the gconftool to remove it from the panel, otherwise gnome-panel won't stand up again

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go4linux (ubuntu-desole) wrote :

I have just upgraded to 11.04, 64 bit, and I have a similar problem.
I don't have to use gconftool, but the gnome panel seems indeed to be restarted, and I get the message The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_QuickLoungeApplet".
Just to make it clear: I'm not using Unity

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Stefan Pappalardo (sjuk) wrote :

I can confirm this. The same behaviour as go4linux described for me.

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Stefan Pappalardo (sjuk) wrote :

three different humans with nearly the same issue, that's confirmation enough for me

Changed in quick-lounge-applet (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ben Kraft (benjaminjkraft) wrote :

Same behavior as go4linux. I'm also having the same problem with another applet (file-browser-applet), so it may not be specific to quick-lounge-applet, although I have plenty of other applets working.

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EdSena (edsena) wrote :

In my system, I have a partition dedicated to my /home folder. Therefore in every upgrade I backup the "/" partition to an external drive, wipe it from my internal drive than install ubuntu from scratch pointing my /home in the setup to the remaining partition. That way, by the end of the installation process, I have all my confs preserved.

That said, when I fist log in into Ubuntu, I receive that error that you guys mentioned "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_QuickLoungeApplet"", because despite the fact that quick lounge is added to the panel, its package isn't installed in the system.

I've been doing this process for several releases now, and for solve this error I simply had to install the Q.L. package. When I did that in this release, the GP crashed instead. Hence the question: Are you guys sure that the quick-lounge-applet package is installed ? It might have been removed in the upgrade process (if you took that path), or it's not installed by default (if you took a path similar to the one that I crossed).

If you guys take a look in the QL project page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/quick-lounge/) you'll notice that this project does not have any activity since 2K9, that's why I'm not that hopeful about this issue getting solved...

Best Regards,
Ed

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Ben Kraft (benjaminjkraft) wrote :

I just checked, it's still installed. And this issue is definitely not applet-specific, it's happening to my "show desktop" applet now too.

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go4linux (ubuntu-desole) wrote :

I uninstalled it, so I installed it again, and nothing changed. Show desktop seems to work fine though. I also tried a couple of random applets, and everything looks good. Except the quick lounge.

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TheMadsen (5-launchpad-themadsens-dk) wrote :

Same here, crashes or hangs gnome-panel.
And this was my single most featured one! (beside file-browser-applet that is).

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bdoe (bdoe-att) wrote :

I am having exactly the same problem with Linux Mint 11 "Katya". Installing the quick-lounge-applet goes fine, but as soon as I try to add it to the gnome panel, gnome panel (2.32.1) disappears, a strange shadow shows up in its place, and it goes into an endless relaunch/crash cycle. Something about the latest Gnome Panel used in the Ubuntu Natty Gnome desktop (and, by extension, Mint Katya) seems to have broken compatibility with quick-lounge-applet.

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bdoe (bdoe-att) wrote :

This has also been reported upstream to the Gnome guys. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636943

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braikar (braikar) wrote :

Hi there,
I also have the same problem with quick-lounge-applet on ubuntu 11.04 64bits.

What seems weird is that I can go in the /usr/lib/quick-lounge-applet/ folder
but when I try to run the quick-lounge-applet file from the command line, I get 'command not found' ??
What is also strange is that when I press tab in the folder to auto complete the name quick... it doesn't auto complete.
It's as if the file does not exist, yet I can check its permissions and it is read-only (and set as executable) for everyone as it should.

I get the same behaviour in nautilus, I cannot run the applet from there, it is present in the directory but I can't run it, clicking on it has no effect.
Same if I'm in a 'sudo su' or 'gksudo nautilus' environment. It's really as if the file does not exist even if it can be listed using 'ls' or 'dir'. I tried unistalling the applet and reinstalling it changes nothing to that strange behaviour..

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braikar (braikar) wrote :

Well I don't know how I sorted that problem, now it's there and can be run... but still OAFIID error when added to the panel and in debug mode I can't get any easy info :s

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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This package has been removed from our software archive, so I'll close this bug.

Changed in quick-lounge-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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