OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet panel encountered a problem

[hwttdz]

I'm getting a "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet"." when logging in. There are numerous threads with this, but I can't find one marked solved or with a working solution. The two solutions I have not tried are installing the fast-user-switch-applet (because that package has been retired, apparently replaced by gdm which is installed) and installing ubuntu-desktop (because this is a flash drive installation and I don't have the space).

It would be fantastic if people might give a little more advice.

[dcstar]

I'm getting a "The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet"." when logging in. There are numerous threads with this, but I can't find one marked solved or with a working solution. The two solutions I have not tried are installing the fast-user-switch-applet (because that package has been retired, apparently replaced by gdm which is installed) and installing ubuntu-desktop (because this is a flash drive installation and I don't have the space).

It would be fantastic if people might give a little more advice.

This no longer applies to 9.10 installations, if you upgraded from 9.04 you should remove it from your system.

[hwttdz]

That's funny, because I installed straight from a 9.10 cd, so there must be a karmic package that references the old version. Anyways, installing indicator-applet-session and adding that to the panel and removing the old one settled it.

[Circa Lucid]

THANK YOU! I've had this problem ever since I switched over to Karmic 32 Desktop. The Fast Switcher would work perfect from a fresh install but would be broken after I update. I have 2 servers running Karmic 64 Server with ubuntu-desktop and it works perfect there but it would always break (I reinstalled the OS 3 times) on my desktop.

[Godzemo]

I had a similar problem when trying to get rid of an unrelated applet, and this solution worked a charm.

To anyone reading this- deleting your configuration files (as suggested in numerous other threads) is not necessary

[leleobhz]

This issue happens when i upgraded my 9.10 to 10.04 some weeks ago (To be more precise, ive used some packages from Lucid in karmic via apt-pinning). Since first gnome package got upgraded i have this error. Reading now, i saw the indicator-applet-session wasn't installed here. Will logout and see if this applies to --> 10.04 upgrades too.