Bug#404876:

[Rick Thomas]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le jeudi 28 décembre 2006 à 15:52 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit :
>> However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to
>> gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something
>> having to do with the appearance of the desktop.  Things are very
>> slow (as if a process in continually crashing and restarting) and the
>> appearance of the desktop cycles thru a series of subtle but
>> disturbing changes that I'll call "wiggling" for want of a better  
>> word.
>>
>> Finally, after 30 seconds or a minute, I get a pop-up that says
>>
>> 		Question
>> 	The pannel encountered a problem while loading
>> 	"OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet".
>>
>> 	Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
>> 	[Don't delete]		[Delete]
>>
>> If I click [Don't Delete] it goes back to wiggling, and about 30
>> seconds later, I get the same popup.
>> If I click [Delete] it goes back to wiggling, but the popup doesn't
>> reappear.
>>
>> After a couple of minutes of wiggling, I get a popup that says
>>
>> 	There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon
>> 	Some things such as themes, sounds, or background settings, may not
>> work correctly.
>> 	
>> 	The Settings Daemon restarted too many times
>>
>> 	The last error message was:
>> 		System Exception:IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0:
>> 		Child process did not give an error message,
>> 		unknown failure occurred.
>> 	
>> 	Gnome will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you login.
>> 						[close]
>>
>> When I click [close] the wiggling stops and everything is (as far as
>> I can tell) normal until I log out
>> and try to login again.
>
> Could you try to update the liborbit2 and orbit2 packages to the
> 1:2.14.4-1 version in unstable, and then tell me if that bug is still
> happening?

I changed "etch" to "unstable" in sources.list.  Then I did "aptitude  
update && aptitude install liborbit2 orbit2". It installed orbit2 and  
upgraded liborbit2 to version 1:2.14.4-1 and held back a whole bunch  
of stuff.  Then I logged out and back in again.  No change.  It still  
goes all wiggly on me and finally gives me the second error popup.   
(The first error popup isn't expected at this point -- I answered  
"Delete" the first time it came up a while ago and haven't seen it  
since.)

On an off chance, I rebooted the system.  Still no change.  Still all  
wiggly.



Enjoy!

Rick