From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 15:58:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D349116A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:58:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out2.xs4all.nl (smtp-out2.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5883443D2D for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:58:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from saket@xs4all.nl) Received: from Aspire (a80-126-19-10.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.19.10]) by smtp-out2.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5AFw9cs010860 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:58:10 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Saket Kulkarni Organization: Maatschap Van Caubergh & Kulkarni Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:00:34 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.23/FreeBSD M2 build 518 Subject: Problems running gdesklets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:58:11 -0000 I've been trying for three days to get Gdesklets to run on my FreeBSD 5.2 system. It's been the most frustrating experience of my very short FreeBSD career. One dependency after the other crashed during make or wouldn't run or couldn't be found. After consulting the www.freebsd.org/gnome pages and running the necessary gnome update scripts, I finally got the Gdesklets port installed and lo and behold, I get the following error when I try to launch it: # gdesklets Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdesklets", line 10, in ? from main import init File "/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 37, in ? from utils.i18n import Translator File "/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 1, in ? from FileWatcher import FileWatcher File "/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gdesklets/utils/FileWatcher.py", line 3, in ? import gtk File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 43, in ? from _gtk import * ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_gtk.so: Undefined symbol "PyUnicodeUCS2_FromUnicode" --------------------------------------- I have no idea how to begin to fix this or patch it and I'm verging on giving up on the project all together (it's just that those desklets are so damn cool!). Does anybody know how I can solve this issue and finally start enjoying my fancy desktop displays? Thanks in advance, Saket.