[gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

[gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

[Daevid Vincent]

Okay. My gnome is broken and has been for some time and I can't seem to fix
it or find any solutions on the web. I was hoping eventually some emerge
would fix it magically for me.

When I start it (even as root), it gets to the third icon (like a desktop
looking one), then gives me some "Nautilus can't be used now, due to an
unexpected error" while attempting to register the file manager view server.
There is also another error window that says something about "problem
registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server" and "error code is 3".
Then I click "ok" and it exits. Leaving me with an empty itty-bitty
checker-board like pattern screen and a mouse pointer. I have to hit
CTRL+ALT+BKSP to get out of it.

I've tried to re-emerge 

gnome-base/libbonobo 2.16.0
gnome-base/libbonoboui 2.16.0
gnome-base/orbit 2.14.2
gnome-base/nautilus 2.16.3

And nothing is fixing it.

I've also done a rev-dep-rebuild to no avail.

Ideas?

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RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

[Daevid Vincent]

I've still got no gnome working and no idea how to fix this.

I joined the gnome list, but it's useless. I've posted several times, and nothing gets through to it! I use DynDNS so it should work
fine. The Exim list (which blocks too) works. In any event, it's so low volume (shocking considering how "huge" gnome is), I wonder
if there is more than a handful of people on it to begin with. But I digress...

This weekend, I did an "emerge -au world" and after two days, and like 160 packages, and all the 'etc-update' and stuff, still no
gnome love.

rev-dep rebuild. Not even a some lube.

Then I did an "emerge -aDu gnome" and it compiled like 59 more packages. Guess what... 
Yep. Gnome still hates me and is putting it right in my pooper. Dry.

So now I'm out of ideas.
Is there a 'debug' mode or something I can see what or why whatever is crashing?
How can I be the *only* one having this issue?!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:32 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel 
> with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3
> 
> Okay. My gnome is broken and has been for some time and I 
> can't seem to fix
> it or find any solutions on the web. I was hoping eventually 
> some emerge would fix it magically for me.
> 
> When I start it (even as root), it gets to the third icon 
> (like a desktop looking one), 
> then gives me some "Nautilus can't be used now, due to an
> unexpected error" while attempting to register the file 
> manager view server.
> There is also another error window that says something about "problem
> registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server" and 
> "error code is 3".
> Then I click "ok" and it exits. Leaving me with an empty itty-bitty
> checker-board like pattern screen and a mouse pointer. I have to hit
> CTRL+ALT+BKSP to get out of it.
> 
> I've tried to re-emerge 
> 
> gnome-base/libbonobo 2.16.0
> gnome-base/libbonoboui 2.16.0
> gnome-base/orbit 2.14.2
> gnome-base/nautilus 2.16.3
> 
> And nothing is fixing it.
> 
> I've also done a rev-dep-rebuild to no avail.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

[Alex Schuster]

Daevid Vincent writes:

> So now I'm out of ideas.
> Is there a 'debug' mode or something I can see what or why whatever is
> crashing? How can I be the *only* one having this issue?!

Maybe you find something in ~/.xsession-errors, but I doubt that. There is 
also ~/.gnomerc-errors, have a look there.

Did you try removing (or better moving) your ~/.gnome* and ~/.gconf* 
directories? Maybe it's a configuration problem and a fresh start helps.

	Alex
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RE: [gentoo-user] Gnome / problem registering the panel with bonobo-activation-server / error code 3

[Daevid Vincent]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Schuster [mailto:wonko@wonkology.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:16 AM
> 
> Daevid Vincent writes:
> 
> > So now I'm out of ideas.
> > Is there a 'debug' mode or something I can see what or why 
> whatever is
> > crashing? How can I be the *only* one having this issue?!
> 
> Maybe you find something in ~/.xsession-errors, but I doubt 
> that. There is also ~/.gnomerc-errors, have a look there.
> 
> Did you try removing (or better moving) your ~/.gnome* and ~/.gconf* 
> directories? Maybe it's a configuration problem and a fresh 
> start helps.
> 
> 	Alex

I have no ~/.gnomerc-errors

I tried to delete all the .gnome related stuff, and even things that were'nt related. Same error.

Then I created a brand new 'testgnome' account that had nothing in /home/testgnome. Same error.

*sigh*

This is a longshot, but maybe I should just "emerge --unmerge" all of gnome and related? (how do I do that, including any /etc files
and stuff -- like it never happened). Then I can re-emerge it all? I dunno.

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