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Gdesklete doesnt start

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/gdesklete-doesnt-start.53838/

phreak0ut
phreak0ut Original post #1
Mar 31, 2007 at 8:18 PM
Installed Gdesklets today on opensuse 10.2. When I choose it to run, nothing happens. What could be the cause and how to get it working? Process is not running. Checked that on Gnome system monitor.
ray|raven
Mar 31, 2007 at 9:26 PM
Try running gdesklets in a terminal and post the output.

Regards...
ray
phreak0ut
Apr 1, 2007 at 12:33 PM
I think I had posted the response. Where is it???!! :confused: Here it is again, anyway:

Starting gdesklets-daemon...
Connected to daemon in 1671 milliseconds.

==========================================================[04/01/07-12:32:54]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===

[EXC]
in /opt/gnome/bin/gdesklets: line 397 <module>
in /opt/gnome/bin/gdesklets: line 270 parse_command
in /opt/gnome/bin/gdesklets: line 174 __open_profile
in /opt/gnome/bin/gdesklets: line 164 __client_daemon
in /opt/gnome/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 210 set_remove_command
in /opt/gnome/lib/gdesklets/main/client.py: line 42 __send
in /opt/gnome/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py: line 75 recv
[EXC]/opt/gnome/lib/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py

[---] 70 chunk = ""
[---] 71 while (True):
[---] 72 try:
[---] 73 length = ord(s.recv(1))
[---] 74 except:
[ERR]> 75 raise XDRError
[---] 76
[---] 77 if (length): chunk += s.recv(length)
[---] 78
[---] 79 flag = s.recv(1)
[---] 80 if (flag == _CONT): continue
phreak0ut
Apr 3, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Seems I'm not the only one facing this problem. Solved the problem with the help of this post. Thanks for answering rayraven :)
ray|raven
Apr 3, 2007 at 9:43 PM
@phreak0utt
sorry man wasnt online for the last few days........
its nice you could solve the problem...

Regards...
ray