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On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:17 AM, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> Ive just updated some 180 packages on my gnome desktop. I now have a |
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> weird problem where if I click on a gnome program, it pops up a dialog |
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> "There was an error launching the application." |
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> The apps in question work fine if run from a terminal. Icons on the |
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> taskbar seem to work ok (i.e., how I started the terminal). You can |
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> click on an image on the desktop and gimp starts, but it fails if you |
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> try and use its launch icon. |
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> So what program or app within gnome launches programs when you click on |
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> an icon? |
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> revdep-rebuils says everything is fine - but its been lying through its |
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> teeth on other systems of late so I dont trust it :) |
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> BillK |
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Bill, |
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Just went through the same update here on my wife's machine. I |
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didn't see this problem so at first blush it's not an endemic problem |
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with the code. |
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We have seen problems like this before with Gnome. The only |
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solution I've come up with is to delete the existing .gnome |
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directories. (All of them - 4 or 5 IIRC) Try creating a new user |
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account and testing Gnome in that account. If it doesn't have problems |
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then the existing account is getting hose by some incompatibility with |
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the older Gnome stuff and the (ugly) solution is to get rid of it. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark |
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