ports/98988: System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : EOF from child process

[S Roberts]

>Number:         98988
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : EOF from child process
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 15 18:20:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     S Roberts
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD chimera.vickiandstacey.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May 28 11:47:03 BST 2006 sroberts at 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.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
 error on user login