gnome-panel fails to load Workspace Switcher, Window List, and Show Desktop applets
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
On a Natty i386 system with gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6, without graphics acceleration (so it is a classic desktop, even though the session type in GDM is "Ubuntu Desktop Edition", I logged on, and received messages indicating that all of the applets in my bottom panel were unable to load, except for the Trash Applet. That is, the applets that could not load were the Workspace Switcher, the Window List, and the Show Desktop applets. Here were the exact error messages, each in its own window (with "Error" as the title):
The panel encountered a problem while loading "WnckletFactory
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
The panel encountered a problem while loading "WnckletFactory
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
The panel encountered a problem while loading "WnckletFactory
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
I've attached a screenshot, showing the desktop with these message boxes, as well as the mostly unpopulated bottom panel.
This bug looks like bug 716714; perhaps this is a duplicate of that bug. I wasn't sure, so I decided to report it separately. There are a number of other bugs involving the failure of panel applets to load (a couple recent examples are bug 715706 and bug 727660), but as far as I can tell only bug 716714 involves the failure of these specific three panel applets to load. Two possibly notable differences between bug 716714 and this one are that (1) bug 716714 took place with the live CD, and this is with an installed system, and (2) the reporter of bug 716714 can reproduce the bug, but it's not always those specific panels that are unable to load (he indicates that in a previous run, it was the Notification Area that failed to load). I have not yet attempted to reproduce this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 7 06:46:01 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/
GConfNonDefault:
/apps/
/apps/
/apps/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110304)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors: (nautilus:5653): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Here's my ~/.xsession-errors file. (I renamed it so that I could see it in the file upload dialog box.)
The part that seems most relevant is:
** (gnome-panel:5657): WARNING **: Failed to load applet WnckletFactory: :ShowDesktopApp let: org.freedesktop .DBus.Error. UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome. panel.applet. AppletFactory' on object at path /org/gnome/ panel/applet/ WnckletFactory
GDBus.Error:
** (gnome-panel:5657): WARNING **: Failed to load applet WnckletFactory: :WindowListAppl et: org.freedesktop .DBus.Error. UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome. panel.applet. AppletFactory' on object at path /org/gnome/ panel/applet/ WnckletFactory
GDBus.Error:
** (gnome-panel:5657): WARNING **: Failed to load applet WnckletFactory: :WorkspaceSwitc herApplet: org.freedesktop .DBus.Error. UnknownMethod: No such interface `org.gnome. panel.applet. AppletFactory' on object at path /org/gnome/ panel/applet/ WnckletFactory
GDBus.Error: