Bug 219807 - gnome-panel gives error about "Null-Applet" when logging in
Summary: gnome-panel gives error about "Null-Applet" when logging in
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-applets
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-12-15 15:54 UTC by Ken Reilly
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.0.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-12-19 15:17:32 UTC
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Description Ken Reilly 2006-12-15 15:54:01 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-12-15 20:41:59 UTC
pretty nasty bug, we should get this fixed before GA.

devack.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-12-15 22:14:33 UTC
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)



Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-12-15 22:29:33 UTC
should be fixed in gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5

Comment 6 Ken Reilly 2006-12-15 23:24:17 UTC
I just tested the gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5 package and it fixes the problem. 

Comment 7 Zack Cerza 2006-12-18 21:34:23 UTC
Thanks Ken. Putting into VERIFIED.

Comment 8 Jay Turner 2006-12-19 15:17:32 UTC
gnome-applets-2.16.0.1-19.el5 included in 20061218.1 trees.


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