Glipper dies when desktop starting

[Sam Williams]

I use glipper all the time and I find it to be the clipboard application that has been missing from Linux desktops for the longest time. In the recent Hardy development I find that glipper dies when the desktop starts. I receive the following message in an error dialog window:

The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:Glipper....

The is asks if I want to remove glipper from the panel. I find this very frustrating. What is more frustrating is that once the desktop is up and running I can then install the glipper applet back on the panel and it works properly. I have only installed this as an applet and I have never tried setting up a custom launcher.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

glipper:
  Installed: 1.0-1
  Candidate: 1.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Traceback originally from Bug #222846:

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 27 03:59:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: glipper 1.0-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/glipper/glipper',
'--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=33']
SourcePackage: glipper
Title: glipper crashed with ValueError in load()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-386 i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev
sambashare scanner video

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/glipper/glipper", line 53, in applet_factory
    glipper.Applet.Applet(applet)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/Applet.py", line 50, in __init__
    get_glipper_history().load()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/History.py", line 89, in load
    self.history.append(file.read(int(length)))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '\x14\x0b'

Proposed Workaround:
So what to do: Look up Glipper and add a wait statement:

sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper

Make sure the code in the beginning looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Glipper - Clipboardmanager for GNOME
# Copyright (C) 2007 Glipper Team
# bla bla bla
# License along with this library; if not, write to the
# Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#

import time # <-- This line is new
time.sleep(8) # <-- This line is new. Change the 8 to for instance 30 if it did not help

import gobject
gobject.threads_init()

import gtk, gnomeapplet, gnome
import getopt, sys
from os.path import *

Proposed Solution(? needs to be verified):
Crashing in Intrepid too. It needs to be rebiult againsta libffi5 instead of libffi4

[Sam Williams (sam-williams)]

After I re-add the glipper applet to the panel I check ps and this is the result ( get back:

sam 5994 1 0 13:20 ? 00:00:00 python /usr/lib/glipper/glipper --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=53

[Brewster Malevich (brews)]

I get the same. If I select the "don't delete" option when the error pops up, then log out, and log back in the same account. I do not have this same error. It is only after I reboot, or shutdown.

[Sebastien Wains (sebastienw-deactivatedaccount)]

not really helpful, but I get exactly the same problem as Sam

[Andy Lawrence (amlawrence)]

I am still getting this error also. It seems to crash about 1 out of every 3 times I boot my laptop.

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

I'm running a 64bit installation of 8.04 and glipper doesn't crash. It doesn't start either. I have to kill it myself, otherwise it freezes gnome-panel.

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

Just an update. Bug #205507 explained my condition. Deleting the old .glipper directory solved my problem.

[Florian Kisser (flok)]

This one, Bug #220709 and #222846 all seem to be duplicates of Bug #205507.

[Florian Kisser (flok)]

Sry, missed the "Bug" in Bug #222846 ;)

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

 Florian,

I think you're right but I'm going to consolidate them here as this one already has more attention (ie was confirmed) and has been forwarded upstream. Traceback from Bug #222846 and work around from Bug #205507 have been add to this bug's description.

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Just a note: deleting ~/.glipper doesn't seem to be a reliable solution. I still get crashes of glipper on login much of the time.

[yop (yop)]

Maybe a other choice of clipboard manager.

Like Parcellite http://code.google.com/p/xyhthyx/

It would be nice to see that in the repo.

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

yop,

Please see Bug #176485 [needs-packaging] Parcellite

A package is already availiable in my ppa: https://edge.launchpad.net/~andrewsomething/+archive

[Jean-Francois Saucier (jfsaucier)]

I can confirm this bug. If I can be of any help, just write it and I will provide what you need as soon as I can.

[Juan J. Martínez (jjmartinez)]

I confirm this bug.

From my ~/.xsession-errors:

** (gnome-panel:6362): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1270: failed to load applet OAFIID:Glipper:
System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : El proceso hijo no dio ningún mensaje de error, ha ocurrido un fallo desconocido

(the system exception says about an unknown error because the child didn't gave a error message, sorry because I run my system in spanish)

The problem is random and it SEEMS not related to Bug #222846 and Bug #205507.

I don't know how to get extra information from an applet, but I'll be glad to help.

[franganghi (joered)]

I will describe the solution i adopted to get glipper perfectly working on my panel.

I stopped gdm:
from terminal <sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop>

And then gconftool:
from normal user <gconftool-2 --shutdown>

So i removed the glipper hidden dir:
from normal user <cd; rm -r .glipper>

Then restarting gdm i didn't have any crash/restart:
<sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start>

If previously added to the panel glipper in now perfectly running on my bar.
If not you have to manually re-add it to the panel by using the specific tool.

Ciao!

Franga

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 21:18:14 franganghi wrote:
> If previously added to the panel glipper in now perfectly running on my
> bar. If not you have to manually re-add it to the panel by using the
> specific tool.

I did that, and it worked on one of my computers, but on another it still
crashes reliably on startup. If I re-add it it is fine until the next
startup.

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[SXW (ubuntu-sxw)]

I have a temporary fix for this problem. The fact that it happens sometimes led me to believe that apparently there is some daemon or environment that has not been started yet at the moment that Glipper loads (so, Glipper is "too fast" with starting). So I added a wait period in the starting of Glipper, and that fixed the problem. The time-out is in itself not a problem, I don't mind that Glipper starts for instance half a minute later, as long as I do not have to re-add it every time I boot my laptop.

So what to do: Look up Glipper and add a wait statement:

sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper

Make sure the code in the beginning looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Glipper - Clipboardmanager for GNOME
# Copyright (C) 2007 Glipper Team
# bla bla bla
# License along with this library; if not, write to the
# Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
# Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#

import time # <-- This line is new
time.sleep(8) # <-- This line is new. Change the 8 to for instance 30 if it did not help

import gobject
gobject.threads_init()

import gtk, gnomeapplet, gnome
import getopt, sys
from os.path import *

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

probably the same workaround as SXW's but i can get it running by simply logging out and logging in again... it works then. only the first login is problematic. SXW's approach is less user-involving but on the long run one should find out what service glipper is expecting and explicitly wait for it.

[Jean-Francois Saucier (jfsaucier)]

I can confirm that the sleep fix work fine here.

[steve burdine (highfructose327)]

I can also confirm the SXW's sleep fix has worked great on repeated start up's , thanks SXW.

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
I have added glipper widget to gnome panel and it works until I reboot and login
for the first time. Then I get an error saying that glipper has made an error
and that I get offered to delete it off the gnome panel.

If I just add it again it works ok. It seams to have some issue with gnome
during login.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
50% of the time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Actual results:

Expected results:

Additional info:

[Pedro Fragoso (ember)]

For those on Hardy i've set up a PPA with this fix in.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14965046/glipper_1.0-1ubuntu2%7Eppa1_i386.deb

[leslie (laszlo-karpati)]

Thanks SXW, thats works for me!

[Derek (derek-redhat-bugs)]

Fwiw, I'm seeing this as well. Was going to raise a bug until I found this one.

[Juan (juan-redhat-bugs)]

Me too...

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

Damien do you need some feedback, logs or something to fix this issue?

[Richard (richard-redhat-bugs)]

Ditto here.
I have a couple of bugreports from bugbuddy to attach...

[Richard (richard-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 309677
First crash report

c/o bugbuddy

[Richard (richard-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 309678
Second crash report

c/o bugbuddy... I could post heaps of these, but I won't.

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

do you need some more feedback for fixing this bug?

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

That sleep worked for me for a while too. Then I have no idea what I did, but at login, my drive is getting hammered, enough to make that sleep useless. I happen to be seeing trackerd using a lot of CPU at login, so I wonder if that has anything to do with the delay.

Is there a way to start the applet in debug mode to see where exactly does it crash? It's only 123 lines long, so it can't be that hard to debug it, can it?

[Martin Schaaf (mascha)]

This patch works for me.
Copy the patch go to the directory "/usr/share/python-support/glipper/glipper/".
Apply it with "patch <glipperNotStarting.patch" as root.
If this does not work made the change by hand in the History.py file.

[Emanuele Gentili (emgent)]

@ember: can you take a look ?

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Is this a duplicate of bug 175490?

[Pedro Fragoso (ember)]

@emgent, yeah we can use this too, but i'm leaving the sleep() to not crashing when trying to get before the applets.

glipper (1.0-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0
    - Moved Homepage to Homepage field
  * debian/control, debian/rules:
    - Added shlibdeps and shlibs to make Lintian happy
  * debian/patches/03_minor_fix.dpatch:
    - Fix some Python warnings
    - /usr/bin/env python -> /usr/bin/python
    - Add timer to stop glipper to fail starting on reboot
      Thanks SXW, (LP: #213494)
  * debian/patches/04_glippernotstarting.dpatch
    - Patch by Martin Schaaf

 -- Pedro Fragoso <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:11:04 +0100

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

Hi all,

Guess what happened to me today: other applets wanted to be deleted. Most of the applets in my bar. And that's after I removed glipper from there.

This makes me think that this is not a bug in glipper, but rather a condition in the gnome panel that spawns the applets before it is ready to handle them.

One particular thing I noticed when this happened is that gnome took a lot longer to start, which doesn't happen every time. This also sustains the idea that the problem may be somewhere else.

Cheers

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Uplink, that sounds like a different issue. Please report a new bug.

On 8/1/08, Uplink <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Guess what happened to me today: other applets wanted to be deleted.
> Most of the applets in my bar. And that's after I removed glipper from
> there.
>
> This makes me think that this is not a bug in glipper, but rather a
> condition in the gnome panel that spawns the applets before it is ready
> to handle them.
>
> One particular thing I noticed when this happened is that gnome took a
> lot longer to start, which doesn't happen every time. This also sustains
> the idea that the problem may be somewhere else.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> [Hardy] Glipper dies when desktop starting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

Andrew, it actually sounds like the same issue, generalized.

The way I see it, the issue goes like this:

Gnome panel starts the applets too early. Glipper is "lucky" enough to start faster than the rest of the applets, so it fails to start almost every first login after powering on the system. If you log out and log back in again, most of the stuff is already in RAM, and Gnome starts a lot faster, enough for the issue to no longer reproduce.

The "sleep(8)" workaround mentioned above delays the startup of glipper. That, the way I see it, delays glipper enough so Gnome panel can set up its things. Well, until you get Gnome to start even more slowly, like I did, in which case that sleep(8) doesn't fix the issue (unless you increase it to a bigger value), and you get the failure to start again. That's what happened to me anyway.

One day, after I had glipper removed, Gnome decided to take a heck of a lot more time to boot. The effect? The same bug reported for glipper here manifested for most of the other applets. That means I was kindly offered to delete everything from the menu to the clock applet :) This happened only once, but I think I can add something that can slow down gnome panel's startup time and reproduce this issue reliably.

I also took a crash course in python the past few days, and glipper's code doesn't seem to have any bug related to its startup problem in it. The problem can occur in the bonobo initialization part, which is outside of glipper's control. I didn't read all the code though, so I can't say 100% sure that what I just said is right, but chances are high that it is.

This makes me think that this bug should be renamed and assigned to gnome panel.

Can you see my logic in here? I hope I'm not too far off from the truth.

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

Oh yeah, can bugs really be renamed? Or do I have to open a new bug and reference this thread?

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

bugs can be renamed, the description can be edited and you can mark other packages (gnome-panel!) as affected. click the yellowish thing on the right side of the title or search for " Update description / tags (see original description)" below the description (another yellowish bubble will be there)

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Uplink <email address hidden> wrote:

> One day, after I had glipper removed, Gnome decided to take a heck of a
> lot more time to boot. The effect? The same bug reported for glipper
> here manifested for most of the other applets. That means I was kindly
> offered to delete everything from the menu to the clock applet :) This
> happened only once, but I think I can add something that can slow down
> gnome panel's startup time and reproduce this issue reliably.

I think that sounds like the same surface problem (the generic error
message), but take a look at the traceback in the description and a lot of
the duplicates; it seems very specific to Glipper. The reason I suggested
posting a new bug is that Apport (and triagers) can analyze the bug to see
whether it's a duplicate of this—or any other bug.

I also took a crash course in python the past few days, and glipper's
> code doesn't seem to have any bug related to its startup problem in it.

The traceback does. Right?

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

glipper is not actively maintained right now:
see Bug 255060

[Radu Cristescu (radu.c)]

Hmm... looks like the message trail for this bug entry treats two bugs:
- one about glipper having trouble reading stuff from a .glipper directory after upgrading (which has nothing to do with gnome panel, as you have to delete the .glipper directory for things to work out) -- looks like what is being said in the description; and
- another about glipper starting up (which I tied to gnome panel rather than being glipper's fault, because it works if you log out and then log back in without deleting the .glipper directory, yet adding a small(!) delay at the top of the script) -- which is mentioned when the time.sleep(8) workaround is suggested;

At first I had the first issue, deleted the .glipper directory, and the problem was solved forever. Then the second mentioned issue crawled in.

I renamed /usr/lib/glipper/glipper to glipper.real and put a bash script named glipper in its place, which looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
exec 1> >(tee /tmp/glipper.out) 2> >(tee /tmp/glipper.err)
exec /usr/lib/glipper/glipper.real "$@"

So now I have this text in both glipper.out and glipper.err:

 Bonobo-Activation-ERROR **: This process has not registered the required OAFIID your source code should register 'OAFIID:Glipper_Factory'. If your code is performing delayed registration and this message is trapped in error, see bonobo_activation_idle_reg_check_set.
 aborting...

With glipper.out also having a line saying "SHARED_DATA_DIR: /usr/share/glipper" before this message.

And there's no stack trace in any of those files. Unless glipper is killed because of its failure to start (on grounds that failure cannot be tolerated perhaps), a stack trace should show up if one was printed by python.

So I logged out, logged back in, glipper started this time, and I have the "normal" messages in glipper.out and glipper.err:

** (glipper.real:6500): WARNING **: Binding '<Ctrl><Alt>v' failed!

which is normal, because I have that combination bound to something else.

Sorry for turning the bug comments into a forum if I'm not supposed to do so, but it seems to me that something's not right with this entry, and debate about what should happen to it (possibly split it? send part of it to gnome-panel?).

Wish I knew that that Bonobo error meant, so I could dig deeper before posting something to gnome-panel.

[Jimmy Merrild Krag (beruic)]

I can confirm this issue from a fresh install of Hardy. Glipper dies a lot of times when logging in for the first time.

After reading everything here, I'm a bit confused on what to do and think of this problem. Should I apply the sleep solution, or install Parcellite instead? Will somebody fix Glipper?

[Tom Arnold (g0tt)]

Why hasn't the fix come with an official update yet?

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

this is not a fix but merely a workaround. glipper is dead - (undecided) Bug 255060:

[Tom Arnold (g0tt)]

OK, I see.

But is shipping a broken version the right solution?

Installing Parcellite does not seem to be that easy.

I can see that going forward Parcellite might be the better solution ( maintained, C instead of Python ), but for now Glipper works fine with the workaround ..

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

I'm seeing this still in F9 but also in Fedora 10 beta. Please look at this.

Cheers.

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

is there a way I can capture this crash and provide more feedback for you?

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

I read on the glipper mailing list glipper is not maintained anymore :(

Is it possible to revert to older version of glipper? Older versions worked better and are written in C, new one is written in Python.

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

message about glipper not being maintained anymore:
http://snipurl.com/glipper [sourceforge_net]

[James (james-redhat-bugs)]

Hi,

This bug has been reported in Ubuntu too, you can read it at

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494

we've got some way to debugging it, but no real fix yet.

Apparently inserting a delay in to the applet makes it work. My
current guess is a race condition between threads reading from
the history file.

Thanks,

James

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/glipper-is-dead-long-live-glipper/

on my blog Jean-François Martin suggested using Parcellite (http://parcellite.sourceforge.net)

[Christoph (christoph-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #13)
> on my blog Jean-François Martin suggested using Parcellite

Although I agree with Jean-François this is no fix for this big, so no need eo mention it here.

Could somebody please test, if the packages from
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=873927
fix the problem? TIA!

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

It looks like it is fixed, thanks Christoph!

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

Hold the presses, it seams that it still doesn't work :(

I tried logging off and logging on, that worked ok, but now that I have rebooted the laptop I still get the error :(

Look at the screenshot.

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 320142
error message

error message after rebooting and logging in...

[Richard (richard-redhat-bugs)]

Just out of curiosity, any chance you guys are using synergy as well?

I've noticed some strangeness with synergy and clipboard guff recently and was thinking it might be causing glipper to crash somehow...

[Valent (valent-redhat-bugs)]

I'm not using synergy.

[Richard (richard-redhat-bugs)]

K. Never mind :-)

[Kevin (kevin-redhat-bugs)]

This bug reproduces in F10 still, is there a build of glipper-1.0-5 for fc10 ?

[Christoph (christoph-redhat-bugs)]

No, because the patch I applied in 1.0-5 definitely does not fix the problem. I have to admit that I'm a clueless here, but someone else on #fedora-devel said he wanted to look at it. Sorry I forgot who it was. :(

BTW: What is with the owner of this package? Damien, are you still around?

[Kevin (kevin-redhat-bugs)]

Not sure if anyone has comeup with a workaround to at-least make this applet reload when it fails completely on startup of gnome-session.

I think it will be a good to explore workaround if a fix can't be developed, however even I failed to work a workaround.

But for now I found an alternative app which looks to be working fine with Gnome so far, thought I'll let others know as well.

# yum install parcellite

Cheers !

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[Eric (weisscoder)]

Parcellite uses the notification area, rather than being a panel applet or sitting in the indicator applet in Ubuntu. With Ubuntu's plan to remove the notification area, this still leaves a use for Glipper. Further, Parcellite actually has been abandoned: http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/?p=89 .

[Shane Rice (shane2peru)]

Yes, last news on glipper was back in 07! Seems as though the parcellite has just announced that it will no longer be maintained either as of (April 2010). I too have abandonded the glipper route and settled with parcellite. Sure hope either someone picks up parcellite, or something else comes a long. You would have to think that if glipper has not been touched since 2007, it probably would have a security hole or something. Perhaps not, but I would think it would.

Shane

[marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta)]

I installed glipper on 10.04 x86 and it didn't crash yet.
Can someone else confirm this?

[Omk (ossi-viljakainen)]

Yes it crashes, sometimes. I have removed it from my panel and I am using
Parcellite instead.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:26 AM, marco.pallotta
<email address hidden>wrote:

> I installed glipper on 10.04 x86 and it didn't crash yet.
> Can someone else confirm this?
>
> --
> Glipper dies when desktop starting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
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> of a duplicate bug.
>

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[John Cottier (j-cottier)]

This is still a problem in 10.04, I get "The panel encountered a problem...." error message for Glipper at every bootup. I tried using klipper instead, but then when shutting down Ubuntu Klipper "fails to respond". The after system startup, its gone from the panel (and takes kmail tray icon with it). So we have the two major clip board apps, one fails at boot, the other fails at shutdown. Since I use clipboards all the time at work this is a problem for me as a business user. How many years do we have to wait for a bugfix?

[Jacob Chappelle (circuitdesoleil)]

parcelite

http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/

Jacob

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:45 AM, John Cottier <email address hidden>wrote:

> This is still a problem in 10.04, I get "The panel encountered a
> problem...." error message for Glipper at every bootup. I tried using
> klipper instead, but then when shutting down Ubuntu Klipper "fails to
> respond". The after system startup, its gone from the panel (and takes
> kmail tray icon with it). So we have the two major clip board apps, one
> fails at boot, the other fails at shutdown. Since I use clipboards all
> the time at work this is a problem for me as a business user. How many
> years do we have to wait for a bugfix?
>
> --
> Glipper dies when desktop starting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Glipper: Unknown
> Status in “glipper” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “glipper” source package in Hardy: Confirmed
> Status in “glipper” package in Debian: New
> Status in Fedora: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> I use glipper all the time and I find it to be the clipboard application
> that has been missing from Linux desktops for the longest time. In the
> recent Hardy development I find that glipper dies when the desktop starts. I
> receive the following message in an error dialog window:
>
> The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:Glipper....
>
> The is asks if I want to remove glipper from the panel. I find this very
> frustrating. What is more frustrating is that once the desktop is up and
> running I can then install the glipper applet back on the panel and it works
> properly. I have only installed this as an applet and I have never tried
> setting up a custom launcher.
>
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
>
> glipper:
> Installed: 1.0-1
> Candidate: 1.0-1
> Version table:
> *** 1.0-1 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
>
> Traceback originally from Bug #222846:
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Apr 27 03:59:12 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> Package: glipper 1.0-1ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: python /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
> --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/glipper/glipper',
> '--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Glipper_Factory', '--oaf-ior-fd=33']
> SourcePackage: glipper
> Title: glipper crashed with ValueError in load()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-386 i686
> UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev
> sambashare scanner video
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/glipper/glipper", line 53, in applet_factory
> glipper.Applet.Applet(applet)
> File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/glipper/Applet.py", line 50, in
> __init__
> get_...

[Marc MAURICE (dooblem)]

Parcellite doesn't seem to support copy on selection. It only supports "ctrl+c copy".

Maybe this is related ? :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnomenu/+bug/347777

[Fredrik Normann (smartypants)]

TTT wow

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Laszlo Pandy <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Changed in: glipper (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Triaged => Fix Released
>
> --
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> of a duplicate bug (175490).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213494
>
> Title:
>  Glipper dies when desktop starting
>
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[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Yes, there's still a problem, if there's "strange" history data, which cannot be loaded correctly.

See bug #833629 about this.

[David Kaplan (dmkaplan)]

I have glipper installed and recently updated to precise pangolin. Regularly, I get a message that glipper died after logging in to my machine. The little glipper icon remains in the bar at the top of the screen, but it is unreactive. This sounds pretty similar to the original bug report even though a fix has supposedly been released.

[Laszlo Pandy (laszlok)]

@David, what version of glipper? What is the exact message? Are you using Unity, or a different desktop?

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Hi David. Please open a new bug report for your issue. To report a new bug, press Alt+F2 (or open a terminal) and type:

  ubuntu-bug glipper

You can have more information about how bug reports are reported and handled here:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".