Glipper fails to load sometimes
December 6th, 2009 at 5:34pm |
If you get the following error at login
The panel encountered a problem while loading OAFIID:Glipper
that means your computer if pretty fast and glipper loads too fast. The workaround consists in slowing down glipper starup a few seconds.
sudo gedit /usr/lib/glipper/glipper
Tthe beginning would look like this, you should add the text in red
#!/usr/bin/env python [etcetera] # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. #
import time time.sleep(8)
import gobject gobject.threads_init()
Red lines are new, the number between brackets after time.sleep is the time in seconds the system has to wait until starting glipper. 8 seconds should be enough, however if your computer is super fast you may increase it accordingly.
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This might also be related to system load, e.g. if there’s a lot going on at the same time then glipper will fail to initialise. I found that adding it manually on a quiet system worked, but having it start during GNOME startup would fail – the main difference is the system load is much higher.
I’ll see if my fix works, which is to sleep until load average declines below 1, and comment again here.
Thanks for posting this, it has definitely set me on the right track!
Thanks for your feedback Richard! I look forward to reading your updates!