I also have received this error. No applets have loaded in the panel, and I have a bunch of messages such as the following:
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet".
In addition, when I try to reinstall the 'indicator-applet' program (as some have indicated might resolve the issue), I get the following error:
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/gconf-schemas", line 7, in <module>
from optparse import OptionParser
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 77, in <module>
from gettext import gettext
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 49, in <module>
import locale, copy, os, re, struct, sys
EOFError: EOF read where object expected
dpkg: error processing indicator-applet (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
indicator-applet
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I also have received this error. No applets have loaded in the panel, and I have a bunch of messages such as the following:
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID: GNOME_Notificat ionAreaApplet" .
In addition, when I try to reinstall the 'indicator-applet' program (as some have indicated might resolve the issue), I get the following error:
Original exception was: gconf-schemas" , line 7, in <module> python2. 6/optparse. py", line 77, in <module> python2. 6/gettext. py", line 49, in <module>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/
from optparse import OptionParser
File "/usr/lib/
from gettext import gettext
File "/usr/lib/
import locale, copy, os, re, struct, sys
EOFError: EOF read where object expected
dpkg: error processing indicator-applet (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
indicator-applet
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-Ray