Re: Gnome-Panel and Nautilus errors on startup

[Joona I Palaste <palaste cc helsinki fi>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, mike wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 07:24, Joona I Palaste wrote:
> > I've recently upgraded Gnome-Desktop, Gnome-Panel and Nautilus to 2.4
> > versions. Now when I start up Gnome, the component initialisation only
> > goes halfway through (the last two components to get initialised are
> > the panel and Nautilus, then it stops), and I get the following error
> > messages:
> >
> > There was a problem registering the panel with the bonobo-activation server.
> > The error code is: 1078774059
> > The panel will now exit.
> >
> > Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when
> > attempting to register the file manager view server.
> >
> > The panel eventually starts up all OK, but I am left with a desktop that
> > is stuck in the default settings. I can't edit any desktop preferences.
> > I can't even find an option to edit any desktop preferences. The closest
> > I have come to editing the preferences is right-click the desktop
> > background, choose "Change desktop background" from the popup menu, and
> > then select a different background. Selecting a different background has
> > no effect, the background stays the same.
> >
> > I have obviously messed up something, but what? How can I resolve this
> > mess, short of reinstalling the entire Linux distribution?
> >
> > I can provide more detailed information about any components if needed.
>
> Does this happen with a fresh user/root user?

I haven't tried.
Anyway the problem seems to have gone away since I upgraded
Gnome-Utils, Control-Center and Gnome-Themes, deleted my old Gnome
preferences directories and restarted Gnome.
Now the only problem seems to be that Nautilus is taking a really long
time (several minutes) to start on Gnome startup. It eventually starts
up OK but it seems to be quite slow.

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