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Bug 669781 - GNOME Classic: The Panel encountered a problem loading »WnckletFactory::WindowListApplet«
GNOME Classic: The Panel encountered a problem loading »WnckletFactory::Windo...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 654843
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: window list
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-02-09 22:54 UTC by Paul Menzel
Modified: 2012-05-21 06:55 UTC
See Also:
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Description Paul Menzel 2012-02-09 22:54:48 UTC 
Logging into GNOME Classic after an upgrade of python-wnck I got the error message mentioned in the subject.

        Das Panel ist beim Laden von »WnckletFactory::WindowListApplet« auf ein Porblem gestoßen.

        Wollen Sie das Applet aus Ihrer Konfiguration löschen?

This translates to the following.

        The Panel encountered a problem loading »WnckletFactory::WindowListApplet«.

        Do you want to remove it from your configuration?

I chose to remove that applet and now I cannot add it back to make further tests. Right clicking on the bottom panel does not give me any menu with options.

I also submitted a report to the Debian BTS [1] and they told me that has nothing to do with the `python-wnck` upgrade.


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659037
Comment 1 Paul Menzel 2012-02-09 22:55:51 UTC 
On IRC I was told to hold the ALT key. I will try that later.
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2012-02-10 07:28:21 UTC 
This generally means a crash. Do you still have the ~/.xsession-errors from this session? Without it, there's not much we can do, really.

(And yes, you can press alt to add the applet back).
Comment 3 Paul Menzel 2012-02-11 08:49:38 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> This generally means a crash. Do you still have the ~/.xsession-errors from
> this session? Without it, there's not much we can do, really.

Unfortunately I did not save it and the system has already been restarted. Also I could not find any other information about the crash in other log files.

I guess some GTK(?) library was updated and there was some conflict which the restart solved.

> (And yes, you can press alt to add the applet back).

Thanks. I could add the applet back to the panel.
Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2012-04-17 08:30:00 UTC 
Sorry, I missed your comment. So without more info from ~/.xsession-errors, it's unlikely we can do anything for this bug :/
Comment 5 Paul Menzel 2012-05-17 10:07:24 UTC 
Alright, I was able to look at `~/.xsession-errors` when the crash happened.

    ** (gnome-panel:4127): WARNING **: Failed to load applet WnckletFactory::WindowListApplet:
    Zeitüberschreitung wurde erreicht

    (gnome-panel:4127): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd-glib2.0_2.32.3-1-i386-987P8N/glib2.0-2.32.3/./gobject/gsignal.c:2455: signal `size_request' is invalid for instance `0x87bd190'
    ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

»Zeitüberschreitung wurde erreicht« translates to »Time limit reached«.
Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2012-05-21 06:55:03 UTC 
This is likely bug 654843.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 654843 ***