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Date:      Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:01:54 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : EOF from child process
Message-ID:  <1150545714.1475.44.camel@klamath.irbis.net.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200606151815.k5FIFfr2010962@localhost.vickiandstacey.com>
References:  <200606151815.k5FIFfr2010962@localhost.vickiandstacey.com>

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On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:15 +0100, S Roberts wrote:
> >Submitter-Id:	current-users
> >Originator:	S Roberts
> >Organization:	
> >Confidential:	no 
> >Synopsis:	System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : EOF from child process
> error on user login
> >Severity:	serious
> >Priority:	high
> >Category:	ports
> >Class:		sw-bug
> >Release:	FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386
> >Environment:
> System: FreeBSD chimera.vickiandstacey.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May 28 11:47:03 BST 2006 sroberts@chimera.vickiandstacey.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEEL i386
> 
> 
> >Description:
> System was working fine when last used and shutdown cleanly.
> Today, on starting the machine, and logging in (via startx, as I normally do) two error
> msg dialogue boxes appear immediately after the splash screen has completed its run:
> 
> Error box 1:
> 
> Title: Error
> 
> Message contents:
> There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon
> 
> Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings
> may not work correctly.
> 
> The Settings Daemon restarted too many times.
> 
> The last error message was:
> 
> System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : EOF from child process
> 
> GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in.
> 
> 
> The second error dialogue box appears immediately after the first one (above) appears,
> and sits in front of the first error dialogue box. Second error message box details are:
> 
> Error box 2:
> 
> Title: Question
> 
> Message contents:
> The panel encountered a problem while 
> loading "OAFID:GNOME_MIXERAPPLET".
> 
> Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
> 
> There are two click boxes at the bottom of the dialogue box that reads:
> 
> Don't Delete and the other reads Delete
> 
> Thinking that (as per error message 1 suggests) that I can simply click "Don't Delete"
> on error message 2, and close the first error message box and reboot, these errors keep
> repeated appearing each time I log into GNOME.
> 
> Here is what I see in /var/log/messages:
> 
> $ tail /var/log/messages
> Jun 15 18:50:23 chimera kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 127.0.0.1:512 from
> 127.0.0.1:50894
> Jun 15 18:51:29 chimera kernel: drm0: <ATI Radeon LW RV200 Mobility 7500 M7> port
> 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff,0xc0100000-0xc010ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on
> pci1
> Jun 15 18:51:29 chimera kernel: info: [drm] AGP at 0xd0000000 256MB
> Jun 15 18:51:29 chimera kernel: info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.24.0 20060225
> Jun 15 18:51:29 chimera kernel: info: [drm] Setting GART location based on old memory
> map
> Jun 15 18:51:29 chimera kernel: info: [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> Jun 15 18:51:36 chimera kernel: Connection attempt to TCP [::0001]:16001 from
> [::0001]:57160 flags:0x02
> Jun 15 18:51:36 chimera kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:16001 from
> 127.0.0.1:51168 flags:0x02
> Jun 15 18:51:39 chimera bonobo-activation-server (sroberts-768): file
> object-directory-corba.c: line 709 (add_active_server): assertion failed: (!strcmp (iid,
> NAMING_CONTEXT_IID) || !strcmp(iid, EVENT_SOURCE_IID))
> Jun 15 18:55:42 chimera kernel: ipfw: limit 10 reached on entry 822
> $
> 
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> All I did was log into Gnome..,
> 
> >Fix:
> Don't know.
> 

You haven't provided the list of installed packages on your system, so
here's guess - problem has appeared after portupgrade'ing gstreamer to
0.10.7, which is known to cause problems with GNOME mixer applet. If
it's the case, just update your ports tree and upgrade gstreamer related
ports.


---
Yuri



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