Bug 69801

Summary:	panel doesn't start, FAM errors
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	ellson
Component:	gnome-vfs2	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	alexl
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description ellson 2002-07-25 15:24:10 UTC

Description of Problem:
gnome-panel isn't starting automatically on my system. 

When I start gnome-panel from a terminal, I get the errors in Actual results
below, but the panel starts OK

If I kill the panel from the terminal, it restarts itself as a detached process OK.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-panel-2.0.2.90-4
rawhide-release-20020724-1

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "gnome-panel" from a terminal
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0
No object_type set for panel object with ID 00000001
No object_type set for panel object with ID 00000002


Expected Results:
No errors.
Start automatically at login.

Additional Information:

Comment 1 ellson 2002-07-25 15:34:32 UTC

Checking "save current setup" on logout solves the
problem with the panel not starting, but the FAM errors are still present.

Test procedure is:
    $ for i in [a-z];do killall gnome-panel;done
    $ gnome-panel

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-25 16:15:59 UTC

I think there's something weird/hosed about your system to cause those FAM errors.
May also be causing the panel issue.

Comment 3 ellson 2002-07-25 16:28:18 UTC

I agree, but where do I look for the cause of FAM errors?

Its probably a stuck file somewhere in the system from some previous broken
install, but what is it and why hasn't it been cleared by recent updates.

I've removed every $HOME/.* file that looked relevant, and also all
/var/tmp/* and /tmp/* files owned by me, but I still get the errors.

Comment 4 ellson 2002-07-25 16:40:42 UTC

On a different system, also updated to Raw Hide 20020724, I also get errors
from gnome-panel, but they are different:

ellson@amber:ellson> gnome-panel
Unable to open desktop file applications:///Internet/mozilla.desktop for panel
launcher: Error reading file 'applications:///Internet/mozilla.desktop': File
not found
Unable to open desktop file applications:///Office/redhat-word-processor.desktop
for panel launcher: Error reading file
'applications:///Office/redhat-word-processor.desktop': File not found
Unable to open desktop file applications:///Office/redhat-presentations.desktop
for panel launcher: Error reading file
'applications:///Office/redhat-presentations.desktop': File not found
Unable to open desktop file applications:///Office/redhat-spreadsheet.desktop
for panel launcher: Error reading file
'applications:///Office/redhat-spreadsheet.desktop': File not found


Also I get an error popup window with:
There was a problem loading applet 'OAFIID:GNOME_SystemTrayApplet'

Details: g_module_open of `/usr/lib/libsystem-tray-applet.so' failed with
`/usr/lib/libsystem-tray-applet.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory'

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-25 18:19:54 UTC

Those errors are all unrelated and should go away with latest mozilla,
openoffice, gnome-panel (not sure these are pushed to rawhide yet).

Comment 6 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-07 09:21:08 UTC

I think the FAMOpen Failed message is from gnome-vfs. I've seen it when fam was
screwed up.

Comment 7 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-07 23:43:27 UTC

I haven't seen other reports of this, but if it's still happening we should 
probably move the bug upstream and see if they have.