Bug 73116 – Gnome Panel2 Crashes on Startup

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Bug 73116 - Gnome Panel2 Crashes on Startup


Summary:	Gnome Panel2 Crashes on Startup


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	gnome-panel
Classification:	Other
Component:	panel
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Panel Maintainers
QA Contact:	Panel Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	72685 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2002-03-01 14:56 UTC by Brady Hegberg
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	---

Attachments
Workaround patch. (615 bytes, patch) 2002-03-12 16:09 UTC, Glynn Foster	none	Details \| Review

Description Brady Hegberg 2002-03-01 14:56:15 UTC

Package: gnome-panel
Severity: normal
Version: 1.5.11
Synopsis: Gnome Panel2 Crashes on Startup
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel
Bugzilla-Component: Panel
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (1.112.0)

Description:
Description of Problem:
After installing Gnome2 snapshot from RedCarpet the panel crashes on
startup.  (Segmentation Fault)

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. 
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


How often does this happen?
Every time.

Additional Information:




Debugging Information:

[New Thread 1024 (LWP 3997)]
0x4094ae29 in __wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6

+ Trace 18502

Thread 1 (Thread 1024 (LWP 3997))

#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
at wrapsyscall.c line 172
#3 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 598
#4 pthread_sighandler
at signals.c line 97
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 panel_global_config_set_entry
at panel-config-global.c line 130
#7 panel_load_global_config
at panel.c line 1894
#8 session_load
at session.c line 376
#9 main
at main.c line 216
#10 __libc_start_main
at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c line 129
#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 __wait4
from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
at wrapsyscall.c line 172
#3 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 598
#4 pthread_sighandler
at signals.c line 97
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 panel_global_config_set_entry
at panel-config-global.c line 130
#7 panel_load_global_config
at panel.c line 1894





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-03-01 09:56 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.

Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-03-02 08:03:55 UTC

Mark: as usual, close this if the stack trace isn't useful.

Comment 2 Luis Villa 2002-03-03 05:52:00 UTC

*** Bug 72685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Glynn Foster 2002-03-12 16:09:37 UTC

Created attachment 7120 [details] [review]
Workaround patch.

Comment 4 Glynn Foster 2002-03-12 16:12:13 UTC

Okay, this doesn't really solve why 
g_path_get_basename (gconf_entry_get_key (entry));
is failing.....but at least it stops the crash.

Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-03-12 19:02:16 UTC

glynn: is this possibly a gconf bug? Should we ask havoc?

Comment 6 Luis Villa 2002-03-13 23:03:36 UTC

forgot to add patch->HIGH

Comment 7 Glynn Foster 2002-03-14 14:52:14 UTC

Hum, defficult to know really. Would need to have a reproducible case
and then debug the value of GConfEntry *entry.

Comment 8 Mark McLoughlin 2002-03-19 12:09:45 UTC

It was the GConfValue causing the crash. Fixed in cvs