GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 422664
Crashes X session or crashes itself when in Xnest mode
Last modified: 2011-01-10 14:04:04 UTC
Distribution: Debian 4.0 Package: fast-user-switch-applet Severity: Normal Version: GNOME2.18.0 2.17.x Gnome-Distributor: Debian Synopsis: Crashes X session or crashes itself when in Xnest mode Bugzilla-Product: fast-user-switch-applet Bugzilla-Component: Applet Bugzilla-Version: 2.17.x Description: Hi, fast-user-switch-applet keeps crashing my X session, leading me to the GDM login screen. When using fusa in Xnest mode, the applet itself crashes, with the attached debug output (captured thanks to Bug Buddy). This usually happens only the second time I use fusa (ie. the first time is OK, the second time makes it crash). I have just installed fusa 2.17.4 to check if it solves the issue which I suffer from 2.16.3 release (or at least, that is with this version I have noticed the issue). I am sorry not to be more precise, but I cannot think of more useful tests I can make - please tell me what I should do. Versions of packages fast-user-switch-applet depends on: ii gconf2 2.18.0.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gdm 2.16.4-1.1 GNOME Display Manager ii gnome-panel 2.16.3-1 launcher and docking facility for ii gnome-system-tools 2.14.0-3 Cross-platform configuration utili ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.17.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.18.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.14.0-6 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.6-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libgconf2-4 2.18.0.1-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.11-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.6.0-3 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.16.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.18.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.18.0.1-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.11-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 1:1.0.3-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii liborbit2 1:2.14.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.14.3-5 library for GNOME 2 panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters Cheers, Julien ------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2007-03-25 15:57 -------
Hi, I have tried downgrading to 2.14.2 version, and the problem doesn't happen. The priority of the bug should be raised to at leat "high" as this renders fast-user-switch-applet unusable. Cheers, Julien
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 394532 ***
Created attachment 93192 [details] Backtrace when using xnest mode
Hi, I have noticed the crash in standard mode (not Xnest) was due to rhythmbow playing songs. When stopping rhythmbox, it seems to work fine. I have tried changing the esound options to: default_options=-unix -promiscuous as stated in the README file, but fusa still crashes. I am not sure both issues are related as when running in xnest mode, only the applet crashes. Cheers, Julien
Yeah, I don't think this is a dupe of that bug. Reopening until I find otherwise.
This problem has been happening to me, as well. I never had the problem back when I manually installed FUSA on Ubuntu 7.04 (and 7.10? when did Ubuntu integrate it?). Ever since it was integrated, however, I have had two different cases: 1. After myself and then my wife have both logged-in, I try to switch from her account back to mine. FUSA correctly shows me as already logged-in but when I click on my name I end-up back at the GDM login screen. And when I re-login my original session is gone. 2. Same setup as #1, but when I try to switch back to my existing session I end-up at a non-GUI screen with some text messages re "Gnome printer" etc etc. Nothing responds, not CTRL-C or CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or CTRL-ALT-DEL. I end-up cycling-power. Unfortunately, I've yet to find any pattern to the problem. It happens every week or two? Hopefully this is sufficient to mark this long-dormant bug as CONFIRMED? Tell me what I can do to try and troubleshoot it, e.g., which log file to check, or how to enable debugging for FUSA...
This bug was reported against a version which is not supported any more. Developers are no longer working on this version so there will not be any bug fixes for it. Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version of GNOME and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field? Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here. Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!