Bug#339698: gdesklets 0.35.2-3 won't start

[KRK]

Package: gdesklets
Version: 0.35.2-3
Severity: grave

After a recent update from gdesklets 0.35.2-2 to 0.35.2-3 (via
Synaptic), I can no longer start gdesklets.

I have tried doing a complete removal and re-install of the package, and
have tried deleting my ~/.gdesklets directory in case there was a
conflict.  Neither helped.


This is the error I get on the command line:

        werewolves at werewolf:~$ gdesklets
        Starting gdesklets-daemon...
        Connected to daemon in 821 milliseconds.
        
        ==========================================================[11/16/05-21:50:34]===
        === Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened.
        
        [EXC]
        in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 397 ?
        in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 270 parse_command
        in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 174 __open_profile
        in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 164 __client_daemon
        in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 210
        set_remove_command
        in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 42 __send
        in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 76 recv
        [EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py
        
        [---]   71     chunk = ""
        [---]   72     while (True):
        [---]   73         try:
        [---]   74             length = ord(s.recv(1))
        [---]   75         except:
        [ERR]>  76             raise XDRError
        [---]   77 
        [---]   78         if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
        [---]   79 
        [---]   80         flag = s.recv(1)
        [---]   81         if (flag == _CONT): continue
        [---]   82 


My system:

Linux werewolf 2.6.14-20051108 #1 PREEMPT Tue Nov 8 00:17:56 PST 2005
i686 GNU/Linux

werewolves at werewolf:~$ dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
Version: 2.3.5-8

werewolves at werewolf:~$ ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-11-14 00:34 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
libc-2.3.5.so