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dm.c: 1640: not running as root returning empty list

** (.:8391): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowState' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (.:8391): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowActions' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'

** (.:8391): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype 'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py:29: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py:44: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
import sha
2010-02-25 01:20:10.483800: ERROR: Could not load the stocks from /home/jmaclean/.gnome2/invest-applet/stocks.pickle: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jmaclean/.gnome2/invest-applet/stocks.pickle'
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