gnome-do cannot find anything, providing only error message in console

[Tomi Juntunen]

Binary package hint: gnome-do

I'm using Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 with Asus EeePC 1000H.

Problem: I open up Gnome Do with Win + Space and start typing but nothing is found! I have enabled and disabled various plugins and also have reinstalled Gnome Do but the same problem occurs every time. It doesn't matter is it a link, text, file or folder etc, but simply nothing is found.

I ran the program in console and it provided this error message: "(Do:2838): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times."

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 13 08:16:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: gnome-do 0.8.2+dfsg-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-do
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Pleas run 'gnome-do --debug' and give us the terminal output from that.

The error you mentioned is harmless and can be ignored.

[Tomi Juntunen (tojuntu)]

Okay, I've been trying to trace the problem now. It seems that during boot up Gnome Do somehow automatically starts itself two times in a row thus leading to the situation where neither of the opened GD's respond to commands, so I have to kill them both from the task manager before I reopen the application. I checked the startup applications menu, and there is only one entry for GD.

How do I get debug information of this, since the problem starts already when booting the system?

[Tomi Juntunen (tojuntu)]

UPDATE: Problem seems to not appear when waking up from hibernation. Only when booting or rebooting the whole system.

[Zach Bush (zabu-other)]

I had this same problem, I found that restarting the X server would make gnome-do work properly.

Tomi's comment was helpful, I think I fixed it by going to System->Preferences->Startup Applications and removing the gnome-do entry. After a reboot, the problem appears to have been resolved.

[Zach Bush (zabu-other)]

It would seem that the aforementioned fix only worked for one shutdown restart cycle. after restarting a second time the problem returned.

I then removed the startup entry from startup applications dialog, and also unchecked the 'Start GNOME Do at login.' box. after a restart, start gnome do again manually, and recheck the box. after two reboots, it still works.

[Zach Bush (zabu-other)]

Alas, it would seem to have only been another temporary solution.

[Tomi Juntunen (tojuntu)]

I tried the same methods Zach mentioned and it seems that they are still only temporary solutions.