I have a Nautilus/bonobo error

[Denise and Anthony]

Ok, solved; went to KDE, and discovered that the time was wrong; turns 
out my date was
set to 1904.  Brother.  :)

thx
    anthony

Denise and Anthony (well, mostly Anthony) wrote:

>    and I haven't found a reference to it in the list archives.  Here 
> it is:
>
>    at login, when ydl is loading up the panel application, I get the 
> following dialog box errors:
>
> First:
> "There was an error registering the panel with the bonobo-activation 
> server. 'The error code is: 3
> The panel will now exit."
>
>    when I hit "OK", the panel starts up but certain applets won't 
> start and kick back an error:
>
> "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID: 
> GNOME_MultiLoadApplet"
> Details: Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'
> Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?"
>
>    The same error occurs with the following applets: 
> GNOME_BattStatApplet, GNOME_PagerApplet,
>    GNOME_TasklistApplet, GNOME_SystemTrayApplet, and GNOME_ClockApplet.
>
> Second:
> "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon.
> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not 
> work correctly.
> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log 
> in."
>
> Third:
> "Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error."
>
>    I hit the "Details" button on that one, and got another dialog box:
>
> "Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo 
> when attempting to locate the
> factory.Killing bonobo-activation-server and restarting Nautilus may 
> help fix the problem."
>
>    I tried /usr/bin/bonobo-slay; didn't kill the nautilus process 
> (which is just the error dialog as far as I can tell)
> or the bonobo-activation-server.  I killed those by hand; can't 
> restart /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server,
> /usr/bin/bonobo-activation-empty-server just hangs, and 
> bonobo-activation-run-query kicks back the same error
> reported in the applet error dialog boxes.  (CORBA error listed above).
>
>    Killing nautilus or closing the dialog box results in another one 
> popping up when nautilus attempts to restart.
>
>    I updated all errata recently through yum; currently,
>
> nautilus-2.2.1-4a
> bonobo-1.0.22-3
> bonobo-activation-2.2.0-2
> libbonobo-2.2.0-1
>
> on a G3 500 Mhz laptop (pismo).  Everything was working fine before I 
> updated through yum, incidentally; although I
> was some months out of date.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> thx
>    anthony
>
>
>
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