Indicator applet crashes during login

[Leonardo Torok]

Binary package hint: indicator-applet

Every time I start my computer, indicator-applet and indicator-session don't work, crashing with the following errors:

OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet
OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorSession
(something like that)

The problem only occurs during boot or restart. If I logout and start Gnome again, it works. If I wait the errors and use "killall gnome-panel", the panel is reloaded with all the applets working.

Removing the applets stops the errors. Adding it again, the problems are back again. I've have tryed to stop X and gconf and remove all the Gnome config files and directories, without success. I've tryed to edit /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-applet.desktop and change the startup phase, no success again.

.xsession-errors:
** (gnome-panel:2962): DEBUG: Adding applet 6.
** (gnome-panel:2962): DEBUG: Adding applet 7.
** (gnome-panel:2962): DEBUG: Adding applet 8.
** (gnome-panel:2962): DEBUG: Adding applet 9.
** (gnome-panel:2962): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet:
** (gnome-panel:2962): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet:
** (gnome-panel:2962): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet:
** (gnome-panel:2962): DEBUG: Adding applet 10.
** (gnome-panel:2962): DEBUG: Adding applet 11.

/etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-applet.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Indicator applet
Exec=sh -c "sleep 60 && python /usr/share/gnome-panel/add-indicator-applet.py"
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
AutostartCondition=GNOME /apps/panel/need_add_indicator_applet
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Applications
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=gnome-panel-2.0

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Leonardo Torok (leotorok)]

Thanks by the answer. I've followed the steps, installed gdb and the debug packages and retrieved a backtrace (attached). However, I think that it doesn't have any information, because I cannot reproduce the problem, except during the system startup. There is a way to backtrace indicator-applet since startup?

[Leonardo Torok (leotorok)]

I forgot the file... Here it is. I've done the backtrace of indicator-applet-session too because the exit of "ps aux | grep -i indicator" shows that this program has one of the OAFIIDs of the error. The other OAFIID is indicator-applet.

leotorok@leotorok-laptop:~$ ps aux | grep -i indicatorleotorok 4316 0.0 0.1 9352 3884 ? S 23:01 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-messages/indicator-messages-service
leotorok 4321 0.0 0.1 12192 3240 ? S 23:01 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-session/indicator-status-service
leotorok 4323 0.0 0.0 6336 2116 ? S 23:01 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-session/indicator-users-service
leotorok 4325 0.0 0.0 6904 2688 ? S 23:01 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-session/indicator-session-service
leotorok 6757 0.0 0.4 45732 12668 ? S 23:39 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=31
leotorok 6759 0.0 0.4 46992 14648 ? S 23:39 0:00 /usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet-session --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=35
leotorok 7205 0.0 0.0 3060 904 pts/0 R+ 23:47 0:00 grep -i indicator

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You could let apport catch the crash. what ubuntu version do you use?

[Leonardo Torok (leotorok)]

I use Ubuntu 9.10 (x86). The problem is that apport doesn't catches the crash. It works with any other programa crash, but not with that one.

[TJ (tj)]

I'm able to reproduce this issue with the 2010-03-21 Lucid Ubuntu LiveCD i386 image.

The symptom is that on starting the Gnome desktop shows with a couple of icons but there are no panels and therefore no menus or notificaition area, taskbar, etc. From tty1 doing "sudo service gdm restart" works correctly and the panels and menus, applet icons all show up.

The live session .xsession-errors shows:

** (gnome-panel:2384): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_IndicatorApplet:
Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'

** (gnome-panel:2384): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet:
Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'

** (gnome-panel:2384): WARNING **: panel-applet-frame.c:1310: failed to get Bonobo/Control interface on applet OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet:
Unknown CORBA exception id: 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'

checking for processes that reference CORBA IDs shows:

ps -ef | grep OAF
ubuntu 2534 1 0 18:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-panel/wnck-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Wncklet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=18
ubuntu 2535 1 0 18:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gnome-applets/trashapplet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=24
ubuntu 2561 1 0 18:59 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=28

[Андрей Калинин (prize2step)]

I have this error appeared after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 beta

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue using the current versions?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.