nothing happens on startup

try running from the text console: gdesklets shell
a let us know what the output is
also what distribution u r using, desklets version (running "desklets version" command from text console)

apparently deleting the hidden file ".gDesklets" in your /home/[usr] directory does the trick.

Log messages of /home/cellon/.gdesklets/logs/gdesklets%3A0.log
/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py:118: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module tiling: This Python has API version 1013, module til
  module = _old_imp(name, globs, locls, fromlist)
/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py:118: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module x11: This Python has API version 1013, module x11 ha
  module = _old_imp(name, globs, locls, fromlist)

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Warning: "/usr/lib/gdesklets/Controls/System" is an invalid control.

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Deprecation: Sensors are deprecated since v0.30.
Please consider using controls and inline scripts.

[EXC]libORBit-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py

[---] 113 # give us an absolute path.
[---] 114 #
[---] 115 _old_imp = __import__
[---] 116 def _new_imp(name, globs = {}, locls = {}, fromlist = []):
[---] 117
[ERR]> 118 module = _old_imp(name, globs, locls, fromlist)
[---] 119 # builtin modules have no "__file__" attribute, so we have to check for it
[---] 120 if (module):
[---] 121 if (hasattr(module, "__file__")):
[---] 122 module.__file__ = os.path.abspath(module.__file__)
[---] 123 return module
[---] 124 else:
Could not load sensor StarterBar

[EXC][Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/gdesklets/../../share/gdesklets/Sensors'
[EXC]/usr/lib/gdesklets/factory/SensorFactory.py

[---] 32 try:
[---] 33
[---] 34 for p in SENSORPATHS:
[---] 35
[---] 36 try:
[ERR]> 37 os.chdir(p)
[---] 38 except OSError:
[---] 39 continue
[---] 40
[---] 41 # reload old modules to force using the latest version; this
[---] 42 # means we can edit modules while running gDesklets
[---] 43 # TODO: clean up

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I tried deleting the .gdesklet folder as told, but it still doest starts for me.
using hardy heron and latest desklets version