Re: Gnome - applets problem

[Alban Browaeys <albanbrowaeys@oreka.com>]

Le Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:21:02 +0200, debian a écrit :

> 
> Just run an update (unstable> -> 2.6.1 gnome. Suddenly all applets fail
> with - e.g.
> 
> The panel encountered a problem while loading
> "OAFIID;GNOME_WindowListApplet".
> 
> Details: Unknown CORBA exception id:
> 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/INV_OBJREF:1.0'
> 
> Minimized apps disappear too - and alt-tab shows them as a boundary but
> they don't return if you alt-tab to them.
> 
> Have tried removing my .gconf/.gconfd and .gnome areas (including all
> .gnome/.gnome2 dirs) - I have no problem returning to a vanilla gnome
> config - but this doesn't help.
> 
> What's the easiest way to return to debian unstables default config for
> gnome and it's apps?
> 
> Regards


I fixed it by killing all bonobo child process . This done running
"bonobo-slay" as the user owning the running desktop.
There seems to be an incompatibilty between old and new "capplets" ORB
API calls.


Cheers
Alban