RE: Unable reach the control-center

[Krishna Swaroop <KRISHNA PNC CMC STPH NET>]

well, to re-emphasize, i don't run redhat 5.2.  actually i had *compiled*
the whole stuff on sun solaris.  the panel is coming up, so is the
enlightenment.  the theme-switcher weem to crash E after giving me `one
window manager is already running' message.  when i looked at the source,
the file capplet-widget-libs.c around lind 220, the following source file
extract


--------------<begin code>--------
        control_center = goad_server_activate_with_repo_id (NULL,
 
"IDL:GNOME/control_center:1.0",
                                                            0, NULL);
        
        /* now we get the control center. */
/*        control_center = CORBA_ORB_string_to_object(orb, cc_ior, &ev);*/
        if (! control_center) {
 /**SEE_HERE**/   g_warning ("Unable reach the
control-center.\nExiting..."); 
                exit (1);
        }
        if ((xid == 0) || (id == -1)) {
                GNOME_control_center_register_capplet_new(control_center,
                                                          capplet,
                                                          argv[0],
                                                          capid,
 -----------------<end code>-----------------------
 
/**SEE_HERE**/ above is inserted by me.

this leads me to suspect that CORBA (Orbit-0.4) is not properly setup.  my
problem is that i am a complete newbie to CORBA.  so would appreciate if
someone can clue me in on at least Orbit and

A  where it installs its setup files?
B  does it require a daemon to be started?  if not, how can it `listen' for
clients?  named pipes? SHM?  i seem to think it is SHM, as ipcs -m gives me

% ipcs -m
IPC status from <running system> as of Fri Mar 12 23:57:46 1999
T     ID     KEY        MODE       OWNER    GROUP
Shared Memory:
m      4 0x00280267 --rw-r--r--     root     root
m     10 0x0000005a --rw-rw-rw-  other     other
m    111 0x7b00000f --rw-------     me       me
m     12 0x7b000068 --rw-------     me       me
m     13 0x7b000069 --rw-------     me       me
m     14 0x7b00006e --rw-------     me       me
m     15 0x7b00006a --rw-------     me       me
m     16 0x7b00006f --rw-------     me       me
m     17 0x7b000071 --rw-------     me       me
m     18 0x7b00007e --rw-------     me       me

actually i think i can proceed my investigation a bit more, provided i knew
where to start, maybe its gdb time.

C  should i report this at gnome bugs site?

- tar krishna

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Laundrie [SMTP:frogking@cyberdude.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 12, 1999 11:10 PM
> To:	Krishna Swaroop
> Subject:	Re: Unable reach the control-center
> 
> Krishna Swaroop wrote:
> > 
> > none of the capplets seem to be working.
> > following is shell output
> > 
> > % uname -a
> > SunOS godavari 5.5 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
> > % gnome-config --version
> > gnome-libs 1.0.1
> > % gnomecc --version
> > Gnome desktop-manager 1.0.1
> > % background-properties-capplet
> > 
> > ** WARNING **: Unable reach the control-center.
> > Exiting...
> > %
> > 
> > what am i doing wrong?  what is not setup properly?
> > 
> > - tar krishna
> 
> I had the same problem, after I did a clean install of RH 5.2 and
> installed GNOME 1.0 RPMs EXACTLY as the instructions called for.  I
> finally got the panel applets to work after installing some older GNOME
> libs that I had archived.  Anything that would install with the newer
> libs without conflicting, I installed.  I still can't get the
> control-center to work, but later I'm planning on hunting down an older
> version to see if it'll work.
> 
> NOTE TO AUTHORS:  I'm sure you have tons of old libs and crap sitting
> around on your systems from constantly upgrading.  I think some older
> libs are still needed, as installing GNOME 1.0 on a freshly installed
> RedHat system does NOT work well, try it yourself!  I asked about it
> once and got pooh-poohed.  So I tried it again, several times.  Please
> look into this and let us all know just what libs are indeed needed or
> fix the newer libs to make applets and control-center work!  Don't send
> me screaming back to windoze, please!
> 
> -Bill