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Bug 143192 - Unable to add clock applet to panel
Unable to add clock applet to panel
Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: clock
2.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 145788 148250 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-05-26 10:20 UTC by Ed Rayne
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Ed Rayne 2004-05-26 10:20:45 UTC 
Attempting to add clock applet to the panel results in the following error message:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet".
Details: Failed to resolve, or extend
'!prefs_key=/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets/applet_14/prefs;background=none:;orient=down;size=x-small;locked_down=false

Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

With the options "delete" and "don't delete". I have reinstalled the panel
library and attempted to add a clock to a "clean" account with no joy at all.
Comment 1 Vijaykumar Patwari 2004-07-23 14:15:23 UTC 
*** Bug 148250 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Vijaykumar Patwari 2004-07-23 14:22:59 UTC 
*** Bug 144939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Vijaykumar Patwari 2004-07-23 14:26:25 UTC 
*** Bug 145788 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Vijaykumar Patwari 2004-08-03 14:29:46 UTC 
Is this problem still visible with latest version of panel?. If yes, Could you
please try to do the following,

a) Remove all instances of clock applet from panel.

b) exec from terminal "/usr/libexec/clock-applet"
(should get some error here ;) )

c) Add clock applet (Right click -> Add to panel). 
(This is not required though ;))

And let know the error you get.
Comment 5 Vijaykumar Patwari 2004-08-21 07:44:09 UTC 
No response from the reporter, Closing this bug. Please feel free to reopen if
reproducible.
Comment 6 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2005-09-29 16:58:21 UTC 
I add this problem.  
ldd /usr/libexec/clock-applet:
[...]
libecal-1.2.so.2 => not found
[...]

To correct the issue I created a simlink :
ln -s /usr/lib/libecal-1.2.so /usr/lib/libecal-1.2.so.2

After that, I could easily add the clock-applet.
Comment 7 Ben Davis 2006-04-03 16:53:15 UTC 
$ /usr/libexec/clock-applet
/usr/libexec/clock-applet: error while loading shared libraries: libedataserver-1.2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Yep, seems that it's just looking for the old evolution-data-server.  I just made a simlink in /usr/lib:

ln -s libedataserver-1.2.so.7.0.1 libedataserver-1.2.so.4