I just did a fresh upgrade from Beta2 to snapshot 3 and after rebooting and logging in I was confronted with a dialog saying: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Null-Applet. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly. It had a "Details..." button, too, that provided more information: Bad key or directory name: "0x9a073f8/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a073d0/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a076f8/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a076d0/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a076b0/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a07570/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a07540/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a07bd8/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x9a07650/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) Bad key or directory name: "0x99ec620/bonobo_iid": Must begin with a slash (/) This now happens every time I log in.
pretty nasty bug, we should get this fixed before GA. devack.
This is actually a problem with the null applet. 1) the dialog was intentional, but not what we want from a distribution point of view 2) the code had a tiny mistake in it (used %p instead of %s in a format string)
should be fixed in gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5
I just tested the gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5 package and it fixes the problem.
Thanks Ken. Putting into VERIFIED.
gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5 included in 20061218.1 trees.