Gnome-panel fails to load various applets

here is .xsession-errors.old

I was unable to getoutput from gnome-session --debug 2>&1 | tee "gnome-session-debug.log" from tty#
I had to killall gnome-panel than i can run it.

Also note about first comment. none of the launchers will load apps without using "killall gnome-panel"

I stopped the debug command before it was complete it has been running for a while and looked like it was not going to stop on its own.

I disagree this is low as it make everything on gnome panel unusable
Set to high for the reason i stated. Gnome panel should always work without having to use "killall" New users seeing this problem may not know to use killall in TTY and they are unable to get help without launchers working.

the reason the bug is low is that you are the only one to get it so far which doesn't make it a blocker for ubuntu

He's not the only one. I alos have this issue. Please see the attached screenshot. That's what I got on first login.

If I log out and log in, all the applets are correctly loaded.

All I can say is, on my machine, the log in sequence is quite long, especially after a reboot. So may be some too short timeouts are involved in this bug. Timeouts that are not reached in the second warm log in sequence.

He's not the only one. I alos have this issue. Please see the attached screenshot. That's what I got on first login.

If I log out and log in, all the applets are correctly loaded.

All I can say is, on my machine, the log in sequence is quite long, especially after a reboot. So may be some too short timeouts are involved in this bug. Timeouts that are not reached in the second warm log in sequence.

He's not the only one. I alos have this issue. Please see the attached screenshot. That's what I got on first login.

If I log out and log in, all the applets are correctly loaded.

All I can say is, on my machine, the log in sequence is quite long, especially after a reboot. So may be some too short timeouts are involved in this bug. Timeouts that are not reached in the second warm log in sequence.

As an additional not, the first log in has always been long for me. This issue only appeared after my upgrade to Karmic.

I have gotten this bug every day for at least a month. It happens on every boot. I have to run sudo killall gnome-panel every time I start the computer. I agree this should have a higher priority. Running up to date Karmic.

Here's a screenshot. I can add that I don't seem to get this bug when I logout and log back in. It only occurs after a reboot or cold boot.

no need to nominate this for Karmic. IMHO this is a blocker to release

I would certainly agree, but right now this bug has a low priority which means it isn't currently an official blocker. It should have at least a Medium priority, but I can't change it. I want it to get noticed by the Release Team.

The bug is not a blocker since only a few users get it and it's likely a local configuration issue rather than a bug

Seb its not local since the otnly changes i made were adding 2 weather applets and turning update* off. If you can provide a test case on how to check this problem than i have to say its high priority. The problem with it being local is more than one person gets this bug and its not likely we have exact same local set config.

set to high for the above reasons.

or at least what files we can post that will help you see the problem.

Someone getting this bug should do a fresh install to see if the problem persists. It seems to me to be some kind of race condition. It also takes me an extremely long time to boot. I'm running Ubuntu Netbook Remix - are you? If you do a fresh install and still have the problem, then it isn't a local configuration issue. I don't have the time to do so right now.

As far as the Priority goes, it honestly isn't helpful to butt heads with Sebastian over it. I understand how you feel, but it isn't going to help get the bug fixed for release. It also makes anyone who might be able to help get this bug fixed less likely to want to work with this bug report. More testing, including trying to figure out why we get it and everyone else doesn't, would be more helpful.

No I'm not running remix.
Butting head with Seb was not the intent. Since release is right around the corner (next week i think) this is something that needs to be fixed and at this point in release only Important bugs are looked at to be fixed and for me dropping to a TTY to restart gnome-panel is not something that is fun. New users on upgrade/install of 9.10 after release may see this and IMHO that is the biggest problem that this bug has, but are new users going to know to drop to a TTY and run "kill all gnome-panel"?
I have days where i run only in TTY but others dont.
I will drop it to medium as a compromise (meet in the middle) to mine and Sebs disagreement.

The alsa bug is not caused by this bug.
logging out than logging in with new user makes it load fine.
I cant find setting to make login screen show up once i do i can check new user on reboot.

Making a new user and rebooting/restart into the new user does not see this bug. Is there a config option to look for. logging in and out after running killall gnome-panel from TTY works on both users.

After testing some more the problem in not in new user account however if i log out and log into my normal account it doesnt load i have to still killall gnome-panel for it to show up

I just did a fresh install, and I'm still getting the errors just after Xsplash changes to Gnome (I completely wiped the hard drive and re-partitioned from scratch). This time I'm not running UNR, I'm running vanilla Ubuntu Desktop. I did not copy over any configuration files (except my .mozilla folder), so I don't see how this can be a local configuration issue.

After searching a bit here on launchpad, i found this bug. It happens that i have a similar problem.
i upgraded to karmic today and the gnome-panel is just grey without any icon or label on it, and this after fresh startup and login!!!
very surprised, i when to tty and restarted X. then everything was ok, the panel was reloading correctly... until i had to reboot the machine and the same problem occurred again after the next bootup.
after reading your posts (and configuring ctrl+alt+backspace to kill x more easily), i tried to killall gnome-panel only, and that was it! all the icons appeared on the newly created panel, except my 3 weather-applet !!! here is the trick. i understand that the blocking applet is the weather one, i remove them 3, and after a full reboot, the panel is loading correctly, finally.

So John Vivirito, can you try to remove your 2 weather applets ?

then i have a crash of indicator-applet, i have to search the appropriate bug report for it, but in fact i think i will remove this applet, since empathy is so buggy that i don't even use it. I also have some random metacity crashes... but i can't do without this one....hum hum.

ps to John Vivirito: i understand that you want to rise the priority of this bug, a non functional panel is not acceptable! the release of karmic will suffer of this problem, for sure. but your posts lack information or investigations. Are you using your tty+killall since 2 weeks and accepted the situation as it is?
ps to Sebastien B. : you refused to see that an important bug is hidden in this report, but in fact, the issue is severe. How come a stupid weather applet can block (maybe deadlock) gnome-panel, and prevent the render of the whole panel? i would be very afraid to release a desktop with such a buggy panel. i will now tell all my friends/relatives NOT to upgrade to karmic. i don't want them to have to call me and use the tty when they don't see the application menu!

good luck to everybody.

may the free and open source software win.

to reply to the comment gnome-panel didn't change a lot for several cycles so this bug you refuse to install karmic on is probably there in any GNOME distribution shipped in the recent years, nobody denies there is an issue but we get hundred of bugs a day and have ressources to look only to high priority issues and one affecting 2 users so far doesn't qualify especially if it's easy to workaround

On 11/01/2009 07:05 PM, nikob wrote:
> After searching a bit here on launchpad, i found this bug. It happens that i have a similar problem.
> i upgraded to karmic today and the gnome-panel is just grey without any icon or label on it, and this after fresh startup and login!!!
> very surprised, i when to tty and restarted X. then everything was ok, the panel was reloading correctly... until i had to reboot the machine and the same problem occurred again after the next bootup.
> after reading your posts (and configuring ctrl+alt+backspace to kill x more easily), i tried to killall gnome-panel only, and that was it! all the icons appeared on the newly created panel, except my 3 weather-applet !!! here is the trick. i understand that the blocking applet is the weather one, i remove them 3, and after a full reboot, the panel is loading correctly, finally.
>
> So John Vivirito, can you try to remove your 2 weather applets ?
>
> then i have a crash of indicator-applet, i have to search the
> appropriate bug report for it, but in fact i think i will remove this
> applet, since empathy is so buggy that i don't even use it. I also have
> some random metacity crashes... but i can't do without this one....hum
> hum.
>
>
> ps to John Vivirito: i understand that you want to rise the priority of this bug, a non functional panel is not acceptable! the release of karmic will suffer of this problem, for sure. but your posts lack information or investigations. Are you using your tty+killall since 2 weeks and accepted the situation as it is?
> ps to Sebastien B. : you refused to see that an important bug is hidden in this report, but in fact, the issue is severe. How come a stupid weather applet can block (maybe deadlock) gnome-panel, and prevent the render of the whole panel? i would be very afraid to release a desktop with such a buggy panel. i will now tell all my friends/relatives NOT to upgrade to karmic. i don't want them to have to call me and use the tty when they don't see the application menu!
>
> good luck to everybody.
>
> may the free and open source software win.
>
It worked today i dont recall if it failed over weekend (fresh
install of Karmic)

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I should add that I don't get this problem as frequently after I disabled a bunch of start up applets including the UbuntuOne client, the bluetooth applet, jockey, Evolution Alarm notifier, Gnome Login Sound, Print Que Applet, Remote Desktop, Screensaver, Update Notifier, User Folders Update, Visual Assistance, and my gnome-gmail-notifier. However, this problem does still occur on occasion, usually after the system has taken longer than usual to boot.

If I had to guess (emphasis on guess - I haven't been counting), I now have this problem in 1/12 boots, whereas I used to have this problem in 4/5 boots.

I have not had a chance to use PC as much due to personal issues. This boot it worked fine. I removed alot of bluetooth stuff maybe a week ago same with evolution and update-* I am leaving for a 3 month trip and may bring this box with me to test.
I am on Lucid and i am not fully updated but i will update and test this week.
On this boot the sound is still a problem loading as muted but that is a different bug.

I started getting this problem shortly after upgrading to 9.10 from 9.04.

At first, logging off and then back on seemed to do the trick.

now, a killall gnome-panel is required to get it to work and, as mentioned above, there seems to be some issue with the weather applet. when the log on/off was working, the wx applet was displayed. now, going the killall route, no weather app and trying to install it does not work either.

I have also tried to replace the gnome-panel via the SPM.

I have similar problem just after adding weather applet (on Karmic of course)

See also 474495 since result seems same. Panel does not load reliably. I just booted 12 times before it loaded... 9.04 did not have this issue on same machine...

This seems to have been fixed for me on Karmic and Lucid

I have a fresh install of Karmic that I have been using since it came out. I keep losing the weather applet (or parts of it) after reboot or occasionally during a session. Panel applets in the notification area (network & speaker) occasionally double up (2 of them with 1 functional).A reboot will usually fix everything except the weather applet.I have looked over all the posts and tried everything I can think of including removing and replacing the gnome-panel and the applet-addons via the SPM. Very annoying along with the other problems that I have tackled and repaired. DELL Insipron 531, 3 gig ram , AMD 64 X2 Nvidia Vidio running the 64 bit version of Karmic.I am a new user to Linux and love the flexibility the Ubuntu desktop but am very frustrated with the instability of the system.

On 12/20/09 14:37, Bob Huber wrote:
> I have a fresh install of Karmic that I have been using since it came
> out. I keep losing the weather applet (or parts of it) after reboot or
> occasionally during a session. Panel applets in the notification area
> (network & speaker) occasionally double up (2 of them with 1
> functional).A reboot will usually fix everything except the weather
> applet.I have looked over all the posts and tried everything I can think
> of including removing and replacing the gnome-panel and the applet-
> addons via the SPM. Very annoying along with the other problems that I
> have tackled and repaired. DELL Insipron 531, 3 gig ram , AMD 64 X2
> Nvidia Vidio running the 64 bit version of Karmic.I am a new user to
> Linux and love the flexibility the Ubuntu desktop but am very
> frustrated with the instability of the system.
>
this has been fixed in Lucid using 32bit

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    John Vivirito

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Linux User# 414246

"How can i get lost, if i have no where to go"
    -- Metallica from Unforgiven III

Can anyone confirmed if it has been fixed in Karmic or Lucid?

I can say by personal experience that It has not been fixed in Karmic.
Since it isn't clear what causes this problem, the fact that it doesn't
reveal itself for someone on Lucid doesn't necessarily mean that it was
fixed.

Noam, I never said it was fixed for everyone or anyone other than myself, that would be the reason i asked for confirmation. The status wasnt changed to fixed or anything else for the same reason

Well, I can confirm you that in Karmic it's not fixed at all. Additionally, this is a bug that many users can experience without being able to easily reach the relevant launchpad bug entry. I myself tried several times to google for it, and only today I managed to land here.

Ah, I have two PCs and that happens in both of them.

I have the same bug, only there is nothing on my panel. I use the weather applets, typing notification and mail monitor, but I used them for several ubuntus now. Before karmic I never had this problem.

This bug seems very similar to 474495 and a few others that I've seen but am now having difficulty tracking down.

I'm new to ubuntu and have been trying it out on netbook (dell mini 9) - 9.04 worked great but upgrade to 9.10 produced this bug (all sorts of applets, I don't use weather) and often a multi-minute boot time (far, far longer than 9.04), even if all the applets load correctly.

Completely fresh install didn't change it at all.

This is in danger of completely destroying any confidence in ubuntu as a way forward for me....

Is anyone seeing this bug still? If so please comment and run the following command and post the output here:
lsb_release -a
uname -a

It happened to me yesterday.

LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic

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

My guess is that it's a timing problem: apps assuming the panel was already loaded when in fact it hasn't been loaded yet, or something like that. I think that that's the reason why if I log out and log in again it works fine: libraries were already loaded, so starting up the environment is faster so the problem doesn't happen. It also explains why people with faster computers (the ubuntu team, perhaps) haven't experienced it.

On 03/24/2010 12:37 PM, Noam Yorav-Raphael wrote:
> It happened to me yesterday.
>
> LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-ia32:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 9.10
> Release: 9.10
> Codename: karmic
>
> Linux paltiel 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 05:23:09 UTC
> 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> My guess is that it's a timing problem: apps assuming the panel was
> already loaded when in fact it hasn't been loaded yet, or something like
> that. I think that that's the reason why if I log out and log in again
> it works fine: libraries were already loaded, so starting up the
> environment is faster so the problem doesn't happen. It also explains
> why people with faster computers (the ubuntu team, perhaps) haven't
> experienced it.
>
I'm running a P4 1.3ghz with 256mb ram. I am on Lucid and no longer see
it. I'm wondering if your issue is not the same but im not sure.

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I get this pretty badly with latest lucid, especially the weather in date and time does not update. Actually the weather icon completely vanishes and never comes back.

23:39 % killall gnome-panel ~
23:41 % lsb_release -a ~
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid
23:45 % uname -a ~
Linux amilo 2.6.32-17-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 20 02:23:45 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Notice that there already is bug 337629 about the weather applet not updating.

Maybe I have a related bug ? (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/555878)

YannUbuntu:
Please file a bug on your issue so we can figure out where it belongs, at this time we have no info on your bug so it is simpler and better to file one

Oh wait you already did. sorry about that i miss read your comment

It recently happens to me mostly after reboot, so I guess it's because
the network isn't connected in the beginning. "killall gnome-panel"
usually fixes the problem.

The weather applet is now updating reliably in my latest lucid. There must have been a fix about a week ago. Anybody else can confirm?

Thanks for the update. Closing since it has been confirmed that it is fixed. Please reopen this bug report or file a new one if you still see this issue.

I'm not using lucid, but I'm not even sure that Bernhard is talking
about the same bug as most of us. The problem is about applets not
loading, not about the weather applet not updating.

Anyway, since this bug comes and goes, and nobody knows what's causing
it, closing it because of one report that it stopped happenning is too
hasty.

Yes, I was posting this because I was asking for more feedback. I'm merely talking about the weather applet which updates more reliably since a couple of days ago. But I guess my bug is rather bug 337629. If people are still affected by this bug, then they should reopen. Sorry about the confusion.

Changing back to "confirmed" because closing was due to misunderstanding.

I did miss understand the comment by Bernhard.
This is a race condition as pointed out by someone
above at least from what i am getting from posts.
The one thing i am having an issue is that Karmic
sees it sounds like it is not a reliable bug(comes
and goes)
OK please with yay or nay answers can everyone
please post yay if it is fixed and nay if it is
not fixed. No long explanations needed.

On 04/24/2010 04:26 PM, Noam Yorav-Raphael wrote:
> Changing back to "confirmed" because closing was due to
> misunderstanding.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
>

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    John Vivirito

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Linux User# 414246

"How can i get lost, if i have no where to go"
    -- Metallica from Unforgiven III

The gnome-panel always gives several error windows when starting:

  The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet".

Additionally I get the same message for:

  ClockApplet, IndicatorApplet, NotificationAreaApplet, WorkspaceSwitcherApplet, Panel_ThrashApplet, WindowListApplet, ShowDesktopApplet

The panel seems to restart and throw again the error messages whenever I try to add anything into the panel. Bottom panel is empty and totally useless. Tried all kinds of panel and gnome restarts and reinstalls but nothing helps.

Extracts from syslog and .xsession-errors attached.

Parse errors, segfault in syslog.

Does restarting the panel by hand?
1. Hit ctrl+alt+F1
2. Log in
3. Type killall gnome-panel
4. Hit ctrl+alt+F7
5. See if you get errors this time

Hi John!

Yes, the clock applet is still problematic. I managed to improve it a bit
and will update the bug report soon to make it available to others as well.

  Risto

On 3 June 2010 23:25, John Vivirito <email address hidden> wrote:

> Does restarting the panel by hand?
> 1. Hit ctrl+alt+F1
> 2. Log in
> 3. Type killall gnome-panel
> 4. Hit ctrl+alt+F7
> 5. See if you get errors this time
>
> --
> Gnome-panel fails to load various applets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426185
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Installing gnome-panel (1:2.30.0-0ubuntu2) below seemed to solve most of the issues. The clock applet still gives the error message even after the killall trick.

Additionally I found out several GNOME_*.server files with dummy content. The following files were full of 0xFF (possibly due to interrupted download the other day?):
    /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Speech_SynthDriver_Speech_Dispatcher.server
    /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_SeahorseApplet.server
    /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Panel_WirelessApplet.server
    /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet.server

Overall I am pretty happy with the currently working functionality, the clock applet will be there some day.

   /usr/share/doc/libpanel-applet2-0/changelog.Debian.gz

gnome-panel (1:2.30.0-0ubuntu2) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/90_git_new_unhidden.patch:
    - git change to fix an issue leading to new gnome-panel bars not being
      displayed until restart (lp: #525368)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 28 May 2010 10:50:19 +0200

Btw, where can I download correct gnome_* files to replace the broken ones?

Sorry, I gave totally incorrect file list. The broken ones are:
    GNOME_Moniker_std.server
    GNOME_PilotApplet.server
    GNOME_Pilot_Daemon.server
    GNOME_TomboyApplet.server

Could the segfault below be the root cause of the problem? Fixing it might make the behavior a lot more predictable.

May 30 05:14:22 <host> bonobo-activation-server (<user>-2704): Failed to parse: 'Error on line 1 char 1: Document must begin with an element (e.g. <book>)' in file '/usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_PilotApplet.server'
May 30 05:14:22 <host> kernel: [ 3702.149971] gnome-panel[2597]: segfault at 4 ip 080ad2f9 sp bfdec950 error 4 in gnome-panel[8048000+83000]

it would be weird that the update triggers that issue, could you add your .xsessions-errors to the bug?

I don't get the segfaults into syslog any more, even though I copied back the buggy empty GNOME_* files. The gdm-* and gnome-* logwrites are the only ones that look even remotely related to the panel issue - or maybe not?

the new comments indicate rather a local corruption, libnm-util.so.1 and GNOME_PilotApplet.server seem broken, you should check your box and reinstall the binaries having those files to start

Ok! I reinstalled gnome-panel already but it did not fix the
GNOME_PilotApplet.server config file. The libnm-util I did not check. How
can I get the clean distribution version of those?

  Risto

On 7 June 2010 23:54, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> the new comments indicate rather a local corruption, libnm-util.so.1 and
> GNOME_PilotApplet.server seem broken, you should check your box and
> reinstall the binaries having those files to start
>
> --
> Gnome-panel fails to load various applets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426185
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
> after booting PC gnome-panel doesn't load all applets. It loads all
> launchers and menus but fails to load network-manager indicator-applet
> weather applets time/date. I will attach a debug log in a few minutes. Here
> are 2 of my .xsession-errors logs.
> may not be helpful but dont want to miss anything.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Sep 8 05:56:52 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=C
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/426185/+subscribe
>

run "dpkg -S GNOME_PilotApplet.server" and it will tell you what binary you need to reinstall

to be clear you want to reinstall gnome-pilot and libnm-util1 to start

I reinstalled those ones and additionally libgnome2 and tomboy. The config
files are now ok and there is less syslog messages. Unfortunately the clock
applet still fails.

On 8 June 2010 15:32, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> to be clear you want to reinstall gnome-pilot and libnm-util1 to start
>
> --
> Gnome-panel fails to load various applets
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426185
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-panel
>
> after booting PC gnome-panel doesn't load all applets. It loads all
> launchers and menus but fails to load network-manager indicator-applet
> weather applets time/date. I will attach a debug log in a few minutes. Here
> are 2 of my .xsession-errors logs.
> may not be helpful but dont want to miss anything.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Sep 8 05:56:52 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome-panel 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=C
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-panel
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686
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I still see this intermittently - every 3 or 4 logins roughly, irrespective of whether the login is after a boot. This has persisted over multiple installs (9.10 and 10.04, both x86-64). These were clean installs, not upgrades, with no configuration files copied, either user or system (except Firefox and Conky).

I've added several applets over the default (CPU scaling, system monitor, and the xkill-like applet), and the applet affected seems to be random (but usually only one at a time). If a race is suspected: this machine is an i7 (8 virtual cores).

What annoys me is the dialogue that appears, offering either to do nothing or permanently remove the applet - a retry button would save most of the hassle if an actual fix is out of the question...

gareth@gareth-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

gareth@gareth-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux gareth-desktop 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 08:03:28 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

From .xsession-errors.old:
** (gnome-panel:15527): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1273: failed to load applet OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet:
System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred

I still cant reproduce this any longer on Maverick and before i took apart my Lucid box it was working.

Closing since no one has given any update to bug in last 2 months.
Please re-open if you still see this issue although filing a new bug report using ubuntu-bug gnome-panel would give latest info on your system.

Sorry, this is not fixed for me.

On startup / reboot:
- For a long time I see no panels at all. The full-screen windows are resized in a way that they leave space for the panels, but the panels themselves are just transparent bars showing the desktop image.
- After this long time of waiting, I see a bunch of error messages telling me that almost all panel components failed loading. I can choose to either delete these components from the configuration, or not. Either way, these components won't appear on the panels unless I re-add them manually. Missing components include the taskbar, "show desktop", desktop switcher, clock, etc, more or less everything except the menu (applications/places/system).

After reading one of the above comments, I tried "killall gnome-panel". Result:
- long waiting (but not as long as on startup, I think)
- now my panel components are all back! wow! Some of them duplicate, but this was to be expected, after the steps above.

Obviously I don't see this as a satisfactory solution.

And my system is:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Gnome version 2.30.2