I've been using gDesklets since I installed Linux on my machine several months ago, and I love it. Last night however it decided to stop working, no error messages, nothing; it just didn't load on startup as it usually does.
From a terminal I tried starting it, but this failed with a timeout error.
Code:
Starting gdesklets-daemon...
Cannot establish connection to daemon: timeout!
The log file might help you solving the problem.
I've tried completely removing gdesklets from my machine a reinstalling a fresh version using the Synaptic Package Manager, but this has not helped.
The log file referred to above, has the following...
Code:
Log messages of /home/keith/.gdesklets/logs/gdesklets%3A0.0.log
/usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py:118: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
gtk.threads_init()
==========================================================[04/07/07-17:49:36]===
=== Unhandled error! Something bad and unexpected happened. ===
[EXC]db type could not be determined
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon: line 127 ?
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-daemon: line 114 _gdesklets_main
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py: line 118 _new_imp
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/main/Starter.py: line 2 ?
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py: line 118 _new_imp
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/DaemonConfigger.py: line 1 ?
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py: line 118 _new_imp
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/StateSaver.py: line 128 ?
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/StateSaver.py: line 30 __init__
in /usr/lib/gdesklets/config/Backend.py: line 68 Backend
in shelve.py: line 234 open
in shelve.py: line 215 __init__
in anydbm.py: line 80 open
[EXC]/usr/lib/python2.4/anydbm.py
[---] 75 mod = _defaultmod
[---] 76 else:
[---] 77 raise error, "need 'c' or 'n' flag to open new db"
[---] 78 elif result == "":
[---] 79 # db type cannot be determined
[ERR]> 80 raise error, "db type could not be determined"
[---] 81 else:
[---] 82 mod = __import__(result)
[---] 83 return mod.open(file, flag, mode)
What this db type it refers to I don't know, I've realised there is very little in the way of help for gDesklet users, no forum, FAQ etc. There seem to be a few other people out there who have the same problem though, just no solutions that I've seen yet!
If anyone knows how to resolve this I'd be grateful.
