Waste Basket Crashes

[skatterbrain]

Waste basket vanished from status bar. I try to restore it using the Add to Panel feature, but it displays the following error:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet"
Do you wish to delete this applet?

I answer "No", but still cannot get the waste basket to show on the status bar.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu and architecture do you use? Could you run /usr/lib/gnome-applets/trashapplet from a comment line before trying to load it on the panel and not any message written by it?

[skatterbrain (ds0934)]

I'm using 6.04 within VMware Workstation 5.5.2 running on a XP/SP2 host. It worked fine until I ran the latest updates as of 3/2/06 (mid-day, EST). It hasn't occurred on other machines or within VMware running on other hosts however. I'm a bit of a noob with Linux and Ubuntu, so I may not understand things as well as more experienced users. I'll see if the command-line method works, I haven't tried that yet.

[skatterbrain (ds0934)]

ok, some interesting stuff. After leaving the machine idle, the screensaver kicked on. The screensaver default was "Random". It was on the Tetrahedron screensaver when I wiggled the mouse to wake it up. It didn't. Then it hung and finally displayed a message box that the "shell had failed to respond 6 times in the past x minutes" and to click OK to drop to the command console. I did. Then I tried to run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and it said "dpkg is corrupted, run dpkg --configure -a to repair". I did, then restarted the machine and ran "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" and it went through downloads and updates for about 30 minutes. I then restarted and the shell and waste basket appear fine now. Weird.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has probably be fixed by an update, I'm closing it. Feel free to reopen if you get the issue again