RE: applet crazyness

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I fixed it. I had to copy everything from /etc/CORBA/servers to
/usr/etc/CORBA/servers... Something is not right...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel.A.Scholnick@Dartmouth.EDU
> [SMTP:Daniel.A.Scholnick@Dartmouth.EDU]
> Sent:	Monday, March 15, 1999 2:18 PM
> To:	KMFox@mail.bhi-erc.com; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: applet crazyness
> 
> I had the same problem with gnomecc (the gnome control center).  It said
> that it couldn't find the control-center.  It turned out that all of my
> .gnorba files were in /etc/CORBA/servers except for one which was put (for
> some mysterious reason) in /usr/etc
> /CORBA/servers and wasn't being found.  So, a symbolic link fixed things
> up.  I have no idea why they weren't all put in the same place to begin
> with.  
> 
> I hope this helps...
> 
> -Dan
> 
> --- Forwarded Message ---
> 
> I've solved the problem!!! 
> 
> For some reason some CORBA bits of gnome 1.0 think they've 
> been installed in /opt/gnome. My install is in /usr/local. 
> Just do: 
> 
> mkdir /opt/gnome 
> ln -s /usr/local/share /opt/gnome/share 
> ln -s /usr/local/etc /opt/gnome/etc 
> 
> And all should work OK - the problem was that capplets 
> and applets couldn't find their .gnorba files which are 
> in /opt/gnome/etc. 
> 
> All works like a dream now! Pleae feel free to forward 
> this to the gnome-list - I'm not currently subscribed to it. 
> 
> regards 
> 
> Edd. 
> 
> >I am using gnome-1.0.1 stuff.
> >I tryed to go up to 1.0.2 the other day and it didnt work... 
> >
> >So, I rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force * all the old 1.0.1 rpms...
> >
> >I nuked /.gnome* .ICE* /tmp/orbit*
> >
> >All applets segfault emediatly
> >control center capplets complain about not being able to find the control
> >center...
> >
> >I have tryed creating a new user and the new user still has the same
> >problem...
> >
> >Is there a file somewhere that is causing this problem?
> >
> >
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