Bug#472421: fixed : "gdesklets failed to start"

Martin Roll martin.roll at elementum.info
Mon Apr 21 20:05:11 UTC 2008


I just installed gdesklets 0.36-2+b1 on my AMD64 machine, but I still
get the same error messages:



==========================================================[04/21/08-21:52:06]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 393 <module>
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 268 parse_command
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 177 __open_profile
in /usr/bin/gdesklets: line 167 __client_daemon
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 208 set_remove_command
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 38 __send
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 75 recv
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py

[---]   70     chunk = ""
[---]   71     while (True):
[---]   72         try:
[---]   73             length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---]   74         except:
[ERR]>  75             raise XDRError
[---]   76
[---]   77         if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---]   78
[---]   79         flag = s.recv(1)
[---]   80         if (flag == _CONT): continue
[---]   81



backtrace report:

System: Linux 2.6.24 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Feb 20 19:07:25 CET 2008 x86_64
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10400000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 237367296 vsize: 237367296 resident: 19341312
share: 7479296 rss: 19341312 rss_rlim: 18446744073709551615
CPU usage: start_time: 1208806752 rtime: 4 utime: 4 stime: 0 cutime:0
cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/lib/bug-buddy/gdesklets-daemon'

(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x2b291d7e4cf0 (LWP 2495)]
(no debugging symbols found)
.....
(no debugging symbols found)
0x00002b291cc07ea5 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#0  0x00002b291cc07ea5 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x00002b291e11b5a6 in g_spawn_sync () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2  0x00002b291e11b8b8 in g_spawn_command_line_sync ()
   from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00002b292381c4b3 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x00002b291da6f82c in g_object_unref () from
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6  0x00002b292830880b in ?? () from /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/tiling.so
#7  0x0000000000435537 in ?? ()
#8  0x000000000048511a in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
#9  0x0000000000487f57 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
#10 0x0000000000489756 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#11 0x00000000004d3878 in ?? ()
#12 0x0000000000417c73 in PyObject_Call ()
#13 0x000000000041e47f in ?? ()
#14 0x0000000000417c73 in PyObject_Call ()
#15 0x00000000004813a2 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords ()
#16 0x0000000000422083 in PyInstance_New ()
#17 0x0000000000417c73 in PyObject_Call ()
#18 0x00000000004854ca in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
#19 0x0000000000487f57 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
#20 0x0000000000489756 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
#21 0x0000000000489872 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
#22 0x00000000004aacae in PyRun_FileExFlags ()
#23 0x00000000004aaf49 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags ()
#24 0x000000000041442d in Py_Main ()
#25 0x00002b291d4ba1c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#26 0x00000000004139a9 in _start ()

Thread 1 (Thread 0x2b291d7e4cf0 (LWP 2495)):
#0  0x00002b291cc07ea5 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x00002b291e11b5a6 in g_spawn_sync () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#2  0x00002b291e11b8b8 in g_spawn_command_line_sync ()
   from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3  0x00002b292381c4b3 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
No symbol table info available.
#4  <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#5  0x00002b291da6f82c in g_object_unref () from
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#6  0x00002b292830880b in ?? () from /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/tiling.so
No symbol table info available.
#7  0x0000000000435537 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#8  0x000000000048511a in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
No symbol table info available.
#9  0x0000000000487f57 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x0000000000489756 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
No symbol table info available.
#11 0x00000000004d3878 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#12 0x0000000000417c73 in PyObject_Call ()
No symbol table info available.
#13 0x000000000041e47f in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#14 0x0000000000417c73 in PyObject_Call ()
No symbol table info available.
#15 0x00000000004813a2 in PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords ()
No symbol table info available.
#16 0x0000000000422083 in PyInstance_New ()
No symbol table info available.
#17 0x0000000000417c73 in PyObject_Call ()
No symbol table info available.
#18 0x00000000004854ca in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
No symbol table info available.
#19 0x0000000000487f57 in PyEval_EvalFrameEx ()
No symbol table info available.
#20 0x0000000000489756 in PyEval_EvalCodeEx ()
No symbol table info available.
#21 0x0000000000489872 in PyEval_EvalCode ()
No symbol table info available.
#22 0x00000000004aacae in PyRun_FileExFlags ()
No symbol table info available.
#23 0x00000000004aaf49 in PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags ()
No symbol table info available.
#24 0x000000000041442d in Py_Main ()
No symbol table info available.
#25 0x00002b291d4ba1c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#26 0x00000000004139a9 in _start ()
No symbol table info available.
#0  0x00002b291cc07ea5 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
The program is running.  Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) [answered
Y; input not from terminal]



$ dpkg -l | grep gdesklets
ii  gdesklets                           
0.36-2+b1                            Architecture for desktop applets
ii  gdesklets-data                      
0.35.6-2                             Applets for gdesklets


$ dpkg -l | grep python2.4
ii  python2.4                           
2.4.5-2                              An interactive high-level
object-oriented la
ii  python2.4-minimal                   
2.4.5-2                              A minimal subset of the Python
language (ver

$ dpkg -l | grep python2.5
ii  python2.5                           
2.5.2-3                              An interactive high-level
object-oriented la
ii  python2.5-minimal                   
2.5.2-3                              A minimal subset of the Python
language (ver



I already tried to reinstall gdesklets without success. Moving
~/.gdesklets away didn't help either.






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