GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170346
gnome-panel crash when trying to add an Application Launcher
Last modified: 2005-05-15 00:57:39 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable Package: gnome-panel Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.8.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Ubuntu Synopsis: gnome-panel crash when trying to add an Application Launcher Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.8.0) Description: Description of the crash: Gnome-Panel crash when I try to add to the panel an Application Launcher (Launch a program that is already in the GNOME menu) to any panel. How often does this happen? Always Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-panel' (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 1087420352 (LWP 4765)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ Trace 56858
Thread 1 (Thread 1087420352 (LWP 4765))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2005-03-14 11:21 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-panel". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Previous reporter was jbarnaby@viabcp.com. Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
I can affirm this bug. In Ubuntu Hoary, gnome-panel version 2.10.0, I first drag an existing menu item to the top panel, and this works fine. Then I drag a file (executable) from the filesystem (/usr/bin/tuxpaint) to the top panel. I am greeted with a create Application launcher dialog, which has /usr/bin/tuxpaint in the "target", I name it, and select an appropriate icon, click OK, and the panel flashes 3 or 4 times (2-3 seconds per appearence), whereupon it informs me "I've detected a panel already running, and will now exit." When I OK that message, I get another few false starts and a rerun of the same message. If I acknowledge the message fast enough, It does return, but leaves me at the desktop, with background, from where I can use the right mouse button to activate a terminal. Killing x-session-manager gets me back to the login, but upon login to the account where the mishap took place, I get the same behavior. If I from the terminal window try to relaunch gnome-panel i get a segmentation fault. Will try to dig deeper, unless someone tells me that gnome-panel was not meant to be able to have applications dragged to it straight from the filesystem. Martin
I don't know if this stack trace is relelvant: it seems so small (gdb) thread apply all bt
+ Trace 57064
Thread 2 (Thread -1224229968 (LWP 8229))
Martin
The reporter seems to use Gnome 2.8.1 on Ubuntu 4.10 Martin you are using Ubuntu Hoary (not 4.10) and Gnome 2.10.0 jbarnaby@viabcp.com: Please give a more detailed description how to trigger the crash. I do not understand.
Martin, I do not understand entirely. "I first drag an existing menu item to the top panel" - an existing menu item? where does it exist? in the menu? is it the launcher for xchat?
Hi, sorry I have not checked the bug recently... Distribution Ubuntu Hoary, and Gnome 2.10.0 Just restested: From the file browser i find /usr/bin/tuxpaint, drag it to the top panel, and drop it. I get a create application launcher, which I complete, but upon clicking OK, gnome-panel crashes. It does however not give me the "report bug" option. I have now tried right clicking in the top panel, selecting "add to panel" - > "Custom Application Launcher" and using "Browse" to locate /usr/bin/tuxpaint, and filling in the name as "Tuxpaint". clicking OK I get "gnome-panel has unexpectedly quit" and the option to report the bug, which I have then done, referring to this bugzilla entry. The report got number bug 171014. The system in question is a Dell CPt laptop. I can reinstall everyting if a special setup will help find the source of the problem - it is maily intended as a childrens toy, and thus I have already reinstalled (using different distributions) a number of times already. Martin
to #4, Christian, the existing menu item is gcompris, already in the Applications -> Games menu, and that is dragged and dropped without problem. After submitting my previous bugreport, gnome-panel restarted correctly, with my new shortcut in place - thus it was possible to use "Add to panel..." while not to just drag and drop straight from the filesystem.
OK thanks, I cannot reproduce with gnome panel 2.8.2 . You have already filed a new bug and that is fine. I still need the steps to reproduce this crash from the original reporter (not you Martin).
Hi, I'm Jorge (jbarnaby@viabcp.com). Sorry, I'm a newbie in the Linux world. I'm using Ubuntu 4.1 and Gnome 2.8.1. The Gnome crash happens when I click on Forward button in the Add to Panel form (right click on any panel and select Add to panel) with the Application Launcher option selected. Let me know if you need more details.
Hmm I cannot reproduce that with Gnome panel 2.8.2 please upgrade your gnome and examine if that remedies
No response. Closing INCOMPLETE. Feel free to reopen this report and add more information.