Hi Mike, I had the same problem. Its seems that this is a python bug because the gdesklets daemon is always crashing with segmentation fault.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339698 I have successfully put gdesklets to work again by doing an upgrade of the following packages from sid: python2.4 python2.4-gtk2 python2.4-gnome2 python2.4-xml gdesklets Regards, Jorge Custódio On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:17 -0500, Mike Ward wrote: > I was looking at the gdesklets package, and it looked interesting > enough for me to apt-get it to try it and see how it was. Problem is > when I do a "gdesklets start", it times out while trying to connect to > the daemon. > > I found an old FAQ page on it (page didn't even exist anymore, only > the google cache), which said that the gdesklets-daemon file probably > didn't have execute permissions. I looked for this file in /usr/bin/, > the same place as 'gdesklets', but it wasn't there. I noticed that > gdesklets itself was a softlink to /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets so I > looked there and indeed found the gdesklets-daemon file. Just to see > if it'd help, I created a similar link (gdesklets-daemon in /usr/bin, > linking to /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon). It doesn't > seem to make a difference. > > I checked the log file in ~/.gdesklets/logs, but it's essentially > empty, containing only the following line: > Log messages of /home/mike/.gdesklets/logs/gdesklets%3A0.0.log > > > Has anyone else, by chance, had this problem? I've never used the > program before so I'm a little unsure of where to work, since I didn't > get a change to break it myself yet :) > > Thanks in advance! > -Mike -- Jorge Filipe Custódio |E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Informática | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia |Url:http://asc.di.fct.unl.pt/~jfc Universidade Nova de Lisboa |Tel: +351-21-294 8536 Ext. 10744 2829-516 Monte da Caparica, Portugal |Fax: +351-21-294 8541 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
