Loïc Minier wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005, Anne wrote:
I manually upgraded various libraries gdesklets depended on, until the crash went away. The one that fixed the problem was omni:~# /usr/bin/apt-get install python2.3-gnome2
This is surprizing, gdesklets Depends on python-gnome2 which in turn Depends on python2.3-gnome2... What version of all three packages did you have previously installed?
For python-gnome2, I do not know, and do not know how to find out (if it is possible to). I only know apt-get did not think python-gnome2 needed to be upgraded when I "apt-get install gdesklets". I do not think I had gdesklets installed at all, though I could be wrong about this: I tried it soon after it became available, and had a few problems I didn't have time to sort out. I think I purged it at the time, but I'm not completely sure.
When gdesklets shell didn't work after installing this time, and I couldn't find anything useful via google, I guessed there was a version dependency problem: after all, this is "unstable"! I went through the gdesklet dependencies looking for anything that might be related to bonobo, and ran "apt-get install" for each package to get the latest. If I remember correctly, running "apt-get install python-gnome2" did not update anything. I note packages.debian.org says python-gnome2 depends on python2.3-gnome2, but does not give any minimum version number.
I had come across something via google that suggested the message I was getting might be related to the python bindings, so I then started ensuring anything that looked relevant to python/gnome binding was at the latest version.
Upgrading python2.3-gnome2 2.0.0-6 to 2.6.1-1 fixed the problem.
Hope all this detail actually helps.
Cheers, Anne.
