Re: [gDesklets] gDesklets - db type could not be determined error!

[hx203628 <Xusheng Hou Sun COM>]

Keith Williams wrote:
> I've been using gDesklets since I installed Linux on my machine several 
> months ago, and I love it. Last night however it decided to stop working, no 
> error messages, nothing; it just didn't load on startup as it usually does.
>
> >From a terminal I tried starting it, but this failed with a timeout error.
>
>       Starting gdesklets-daemon...
>       Cannot establish connection to daemon: timeout!
>       The log file might help you solving the problem.
>
>
>
> I've tried completely removing gdesklets from my machine a reinstalling a 
> fresh version using the Synaptic Package Manager, but this has not helped.
>
> The log file referred to above, has the following...
> Code:
> Log messages of /home/keith/.gdesklets/logs/gdesklets%3A0.0.log
> /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py:118: GtkDeprecationWarning: 
> gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
>   gtk.threads_init()
>
> ==========================================================[04/07/07-17:49:36]===
> === Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===
>
> [EXC]db type could not be determined
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon: line 127 ?
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon: line 114 _gdesklets_main
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py: line 118 _new_imp
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/Starter.py: line 2 ?
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py: line 118 _new_imp
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/DaemonConfigger.py: line 1 ?
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py: line 118 _new_imp
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/StateSaver.py: line 128 ?
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/StateSaver.py: line 30 __init__
> in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/Backend.py: line 68 Backend
> in shelve.py: line 234 open
> in shelve.py: line 215 __init__
> in anydbm.py: line 80 open
> [EXC]/usr/lib/python2.4/anydbm.py
>
> [---]   75             mod = _defaultmod
> [---]   76         else:
> [---]   77             raise error, "need 'c' or 'n' flag to open new db"
> [---]   78     elif result == "":
> [---]   79         # db type cannot be determined
> [ERR]>  80         raise error, "db type could not be determined"
> [---]   81     else:
> [---]   82         mod = __import__(result)
> [---]   83     return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
>
> What this db type it refers to I don't know, I've realised there is very 
> little in the way of help for gDesklet users, no forum, FAQ etc. There seem 
> to be a few other people out there who have the same problem though, just no 
> solutions that I've seen yet!
>
> If anyone knows how to resolve this I'd be grateful.
>
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Xusheng Hou