GNOME_ClockApplet doesn't always load

[Robin Laing]

wayne wrote:
> I finally decided to upgrade from my old reliable Redhat 9 to Fedora 8.
> For the most part it works great.  I am having problems with 
> GNOME_ClockApplet
> and GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet, where they do not always appear on 
> the panel
> when I log in.  Here are the pop-up errors I get:
> 
> =============
> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet".
> The panel encountered a problem while loading 
> "OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet".
> =============
> 
> Sometimes they appear on the Gnome panel and sometimes they do not.  
> Here is the
> output of .xsession-errors:
> 
> =============
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/16377,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/16377 
> 
> 
> ** (gnome-session:16377): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on 
> localhost.
> 11
> 
> ** (nm-applet:16481): WARNING **: <WARN>  
> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the 
> NetworkManagerUserSettings service as it is already taken.  Return: 3
> 
> 
> (nm-applet:16481): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion 
> `hash_table != NULL' failed
> 
> (nm-applet:16481): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 
> `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> 
> (nm-applet:16481): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 
> `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> Key 
> /apps/panel/objects/0t1109568543ut155660u500p14986r508150898k3221215820/launcher_location 
> is not set, cannot load launcher
> 
> ** (gnome-panel:16460): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1293: failed to 
> load applet OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet:
> Failed to resolve, or extend 
> '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_6/prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=medium;locked_down=false 
> 
> 
> ** (gnome-panel:16460): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1293: failed to 
> load applet OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet:
> Failed to resolve, or extend 
> '!prefs_key=/apps/panel/applets/applet_1/prefs;background=none:;orient=up;size=medium;locked_down=false 
> 
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> could not attach to desktop process
> Unable to connect to yum-updatesd.  Please ensure that the yum-updatesd
> package is installed and that the service is running.
> =============
> 
> Does anyone out there know what the cause of this is and what the fix is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Wayne.
> 

Did you wipe out the /tmp directory during the upgrade?

I say this because I have had this issue on F7 and all I have had to do 
was clean out the /tmp directory.


-- 
Robin Laing