gdesklets - a funny thing happened

Try this in a terminal:

python -c 'import ORBit; print ORBit.__version__'

That's essentially what the check is doing.

(2, 24, 0)

Is what I got. Ubuntu 0.10 current to today.

What version of python is it running with? Maybe something like:

strace gdesklets check 2>&1 | grep 'bin/python'

will help.

I sorry for the delay, I was moving house and home.

Your command line p;roduced no output, and I copied it exactly.

Synaptic says I am running 2.6.5-0Ubuntu1 which is marked as the latest version.

I have IDLE loaded as well, so can I get you something from there?

What version of gdesklets? Seems to be related to bug #344079.

0.36.1-4
with data 0.35.6-3

Hope these are the right ones because that's what Synaptic says are installed.

Seems right, but I'm not running Ubuntu. Looks like they tried to address this in 0.36.1-2ubuntu1. Since Ubuntu hasn't packaged 0.36.2, would you be willing to compile it from source and see if running the new version fixes the issue? See the download page on Launchpad.

I have been away from that kind of thing for over 20 years and don't feel competent since I am just learning the O/S. Perhaps you can find someone else or someone will volunteer. Sorry.

Oh well. Sorry I couldn't do more, but building Ubuntu packages is out of my realm. One can hope they'll get around to doing it at some point.

Thanks, Joe. Its out of mine too. I am good a breaking things these days, but my days as a fixer are over. It is far to complex any more. The secure distribution is nice, but the last time I did anything with that was with Multics R12.

I'm having the exact same trouble as the OP. I solved it by installing the 0.36.2 tarball from launchpad.

With the default ubuntu packages

$ apt-cache policy gdesklets:
gdesklets:
  Installed: 0.36.1-4
  Candidate: 0.36.1-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.36.1-4 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy gdesklets-data
gdesklets-data:
  Installed: 0.35.6-3
  Candidate: 0.35.6-3
  Version table:
 *** 0.35.6-3 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ python -c 'import ORBit; print ORBit.__version__':

(2, 24, 0)

$ strace gdesklets check 2>&1 | grep 'bin/python':

execve("/home/matt/bin/python", ["python", "/usr/bin/gdesklets", "check"], [/* 44 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/local/sbin/python", ["python", "/usr/bin/gdesklets", "check"], [/* 44 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/local/bin/python", ["python", "/usr/bin/gdesklets", "check"], [/* 44 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/sbin/python", ["python", "/usr/bin/gdesklets", "check"], [/* 44 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
execve("/usr/bin/python", ["python", "/usr/bin/gdesklets", "check"], [/* 44 vars */]) = 0
stat("/home/matt/bin/python", 0x7fff3fc54b70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/sbin/python", 0x7fff3fc54b70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/bin/python", 0x7fff3fc54b70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/sbin/python", 0x7fff3fc54b70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/bin/python", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=2613296, ...}) = 0
readlink("/usr/bin/python", "python2.6", 4096) = 9
readlink("/usr/bin/python2.6", 0x7fff3fc54c00, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

With gdesklets 0.36.2 from launchpad:

Checking requirements:
 - sys ... found
 - xml.parsers.expat ... found
 - xml.sax ... found
 - gtk ... found
 - ORBit ... found
 - bonobo.ui ... found
Requirements checking done. Your system looks ok!