Sorry Sebastien, after extensive search (well, I did my best...) I couldn't find any bug this one is a duplicate of and you forgot to indicate this information.
So I reopen and confirm this bug on my Lucid machine, whose CMOS battery has died some months ago. On every boot, the clock is set to Jan 1st 1904 and this makes bonobo-activation-server segfault, because of an overflow in a timestamp comparison, since that time is far below the UNIX epoch. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libbonobo/+bug/90923/comments/22 (a comment by Glen Turner in an unrelated bug which is however pertinent here) for details. What's worst is that this makes gnome-panel emit a number of "applet failed to load" popups. In general, anything requiring Bonobo fails to boot, making my Gnome sessions almost unusable. ** Summary changed: - Many gnome applets do not start when the date is set too early + bonobo-activation-server segfaults and many gnome applets do not start when the date is set too early -- bonobo-activation-server segfaults and many gnome applets do not start when the date is set too early https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422215 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
