Application "std-moniker" (process 744) has crashed due to a fatal error

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Ettore,

	I've cross posted the reply to this, since it's becoming a big
FAQ, and it's not my fault - honest :-)

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> I remember seen this error before, when I was in Boston:
> Application "std-moniker" (process 744) has crashed due to a
> 	fatal error.
> 	(Segmentation fault) 
> and I think you knew what could cause it...

	Yes - correct. This is due to having a stale oaf setup.
Essentialy, it was decided to rename all .oafinfo files to .oaf files.
However, clearly to provide a transitional path, both file extensions are
recognised.

	Thus people who installed bonobo in the oafinfo days have stale
Bonobo*.oafinfo files lying around in %{prefix}/share/oaf which should be
deleted. The problem is that there are duplicate entries, such that the
problems are intermittent [ oaf doesn't garentee any order in a query with
different matching return values ].

>   Some people are having this problem and I am not sure what to say.  
> :-)  Do you actually have a clue about what the problem could be?  
> The message is spit out every time they try to reply to a mail
> message.

	The solution is to run this command as root:

	rm `gnome-config --datadir oaf`/oaf/Bonobo*.oafinfo

	And then oaf-slay for good measure.

	It is probably well worth while looking at what other stale
.oafinfo files are in that directory that have .oaf equivalents.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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