Re: panel/ORBit trouble

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:21:26 -0400 (EDT), tlewis@mindspring.net
<ToddGrahamLewis> wrote: 

>On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Russ Hubbard wrote:
>
>> I've noticed a couple of posts concerning this. I haven't updated my CVS
>> tree in a couple of days. So today after I did, I rebuilt everything,
>> and now I get the "panel of no use" problem. When I start panel, I get
>> "Message: Initializing CORBA for panel" and then it just sits. It's been
>> sitting for 30 minutes now.  I'm not sure if this is a CORBA/ORBit
>> problem or a panel problem. Has anyone found the problem yet?
>
>Same problem here.  An strace reveals the following:
>
>read(5, "root:UwI4fEK4EnwwM:0:0:root:/roo"..., 4096) = 1126
>close(5)                                = 0
>munmap(0x4007a000, 4096)                = 0
>mkdir("/tmp/root", 0700)                = 0
>time(NULL)                              = 904421943
>socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 1)         = 5
>bind(5, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/tmp/root/orb-17183204651166857390"}, 36) = 0
>listen(5, 5)                            = 0
>socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 1)         = 6
>connect(6, {sun_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/tmp/root/orb-17183204651166857390"},
>36
>(sitting here, waiting...)
>
>I'm hesitant to complain, however, as my problems yesterday did turn out
>to be the result of not including the m4 files from /opt/gnome properly.
>Woops; and there was much embarassment.  Thanks to everyone who worked
>with me to isolate that one.

Can whoever maintains the GNOME FAQ add this:

Question: What ORBit should I use if I'm wanting to develop GNOME?
Answer: Use the latest released tarball 
	(ftp://ftp.labs.redhat.com/pub/ORBit/), or use the FOR_PANEL tag
	on the CVS tree.

Thanks,
-- Elliot
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