GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 638937
crash in Panel: Launching a program via ...
Last modified: 2011-01-08 12:00:49 UTC
Version: 2.30.2 What were you doing when the application crashed? Launching a program via a launcher in the panel. Distribution: Debian 6.0 Gnome Release: 2.30.2 2010-11-12 (Debian) BugBuddy Version: 2.30.0 System: Linux 2.6.37-rc7-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 17:54:53 UTC 2010 x86_64 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10707000 Selinux: No Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks Icon Theme: gnome GTK+ Modules: pk-gtk-module, gnomebreakpad Memory status: size: 474689536 vsize: 474689536 resident: 27287552 share: 16560128 rss: 27287552 rss_rlim: 18446744073709551615 CPU usage: start_time: 1294430107 rtime: 45 utime: 41 stime: 4 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100 Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-panel' [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x7f02849b5710 (LWP 4993)] 0x00007f0299ed1b4d in __libc_waitpid (pid=4996, stat_loc=<value optimized out>, options=0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c:41 in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c
+ Trace 225448
Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f029b8ed960 (LWP 4908))
Inferior 1 [process 4908] will be detached. Quit anyway? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal] ---- Critical and fatal warnings logged during execution ---- ** GLib **: g_variant_new_bytestring: assertion `string != NULL' failed ** GLib **: g_variant_get_type: assertion `value != NULL' failed ** GLib **: g_variant_type_is_subtype_of: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed ** GLib **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed ** GLib **: g_variant_new: expected GVariant of type `ay' but received value has type `(null)' ----------- .xsession-errors --------------------- (gnome-panel:4908): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_new_bytestring: assertion `string != NULL' failed (gnome-panel:4908): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type: assertion `value != NULL' failed (gnome-panel:4908): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_type_is_subtype_of: assertion `g_variant_type_check (type)' failed (gnome-panel:4908): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_variant_get_type_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed GLib-ERROR **: g_variant_new: expected GVariant of type `ay' but received value has type `(null)' aborting... VLC media player 1.1.5 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS") Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE") Warning: call to signal(13, 0x1) 41 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c: No such file or directory. --------------------------------------------------
Downgrading glib 2.27.90 to 2.24.2 fixes the problem
Already fixed: see bug 638838. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 638838 ***