Bug 14288

Summary:	gdict not starting (or starting too much ...)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Redinger <michael.redinger>
Component:	gnome-utils	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
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Description Michael Redinger 2000-07-19 16:43:34 UTC

When starting gdict under KDE, I do get the message that the panel has
crashed.
(Well, it should actually say that it needs the GNOME panel (does it?) ...)

When logging in via telnet and starting gdict, the whole GNOME panel is
started!
(On the remote machine there's a KDE desktop running - RHAT 6.1. This
shouldn't matter - should be the same for a GNOME desktop).

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2000-07-19 23:47:58 UTC

gdict has a --noapplet option that may work around this, if that's useful for
you.

Can you clarify the bug though:
 - what is the _exact_ error message when the panel doesn't start? I need 
   to use grep to find it, because I can't find the relevant code
 - if the panel starts up, is it starting up on the beta3 machine or the 6.1    
   machine, and which machine is the telnet client?

Comment 2 Michael Redinger 2000-07-20 09:00:58 UTC

Thanks, --noapplet works. The exact error messages.

(gnome window:)
Application "panel" (process 3289) has crashed
due to a fatal error.
(Segmentation fault)

(gnome window:)
Application "gdict" (process 3282) has crashed
due to a fatal error.
(Segmentation fault)

(command line:)
** WARNING **: file applet-widget.c: line 934: Corba Exception: type = 2 exid =
IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0


** WARNING **: Cannot start CORBA

Comment 3 Michael Redinger 2000-07-20 09:05:03 UTC

Forgot to answer your second question:
the remote machine (ie. the one from which I am doing the telnet to the beta 3
machine) is Red Hat Linux 6.1. The panel is started on the beta 3 machine and
displayed on my Red Hat 6.1 computer.

Comment 4 Elliot Lee 2001-02-01 18:18:15 UTC

Since:
	1. gdict works under GNOME
	2. gdict --noapplet works anywhere
	3. The remote behaviour without --noapplet is expected (it would
	start a panel in order to be an applet inside the panel).
I think it is best to declare this NOTABUG.