OAFIID:Gnome_ClockApplet

[neusun001]

I updated GNOME 2.10 to 2.12.2 on my Open SUSE 10.0. And now, my GNOME sessions including root account have a serious problem!!. As I login, the GNOME-panel starts to blink and finally disappear. I found out there is a problem with the clock applet. It says this while blinking:

The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?

After a little bit of Googling I found out that creating a new account works. Actually it does!! but here also no Clock on the panel. If I want to add clock, it gives the same warning (above). Please tell me what to do.

[Jazz1303]

I suffered from this as well.
This applet just does not have needed libs.

Steps to Fix:
1. find the applets file:
I have it under vim /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory.server
2. Then searhing for location of the applets execitable file:
cat /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory.server | grep location
location="/usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet">
location="OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory">
3. Searching on libs, which it is missing:
ldd /usr/lib/gnome-panel/clock-applet | grep "not found"
libcroco-0.6.so.3 => not found

4. And install the missing libs.

Hope that helps