GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 103949
battstat_applet crashes upon login
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: gnome-applets Severity: normal Version: 0 Synopsis: battstat_applet crashes upon login Bugzilla-Product: gnome-applets Bugzilla-Component: battery BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.3) Description: Description of Problem: Battstat Applet crashes on login. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. login 2. load battstat applet 3. logout, "saving changes" 4. login.... Actual Results: battstat_applet crashes Expected Results: doesn't crash but simply appears on panel How often does this happen? every time Additional Information: Red Hat 8.0 ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-20 04:10 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-applets-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Please include a backtrace of the crash using bug-buddy or gdb. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/getting-traces.cgi for more information. Thanks.
I'm unable to get a stack backtrace from bug buddy, and gdb says 'no debugging symbols found' when I try 'gdb /usr/libexec/battstat-applet-2'. The version of battstat-applet-2 I have came with a stock install of Red Hat 8.0, the package is called 'gnome-applets-2.0.1-6'. Do I need to get a different version of battstat-applet-2 to get a backtrace?
You don't need debugging symbols in order to get a stack trace. Here's what you can do: 1) Do whatever you normally do to get the crash 2) When bug-buddy comes up, it should report the PID (Process ID #) of the crashed battstat-applet-2 program 3) Run 'gdb /usr/libexec/battstat-applet-2' 4) Enter 'attach <PID>' at the gdb prompt (where PID is the process ID # that bug-buddy reported) 5) Enter 'thread apply all bt' at the gdb prompt
Created attachment 14358 [details] Terminal session captured with 'script' getting backtrace for all threads
Don't have time to check for duplicates right now, so I'll simply reopen for now...
possibly a dupe of bug #104160 (or vice-versa, since this one was first). I'm using a Dell Latitude C610, and kernel 2.4.18 (with Red Hat's latest patches). I haven't tried kernel 2.4.19 to see if it fixes Dell BIOS power management issues. bug #104926 may also be related.
This should be fixed in later versions of gnome-applets (it is a dup of a different bug).
Pasting backtrace inline to make it easier to search: (gdb) thread apply all bt
+ Trace 33923
Thread 1 (Thread 8192 (LWP 31014))
Not related to bug 104160 (stack traces are totally different), and it's impossible to tell if it's related to bug 104926 (since neither of the people having problems in that bug have provided a stack trace yet). Looks like a duplicate of bug 100202, which is marked as a duplicate of 86458. So I'll mark it as a duplicate of bug 86458. Adam: Thanks for following up with this bug. Few people do but it helps a lot. Note that bug 86458 wasn't marked as fixed until late last October, so it wasn't in time before Redhat 8.0 came out. The next version of Redhat should have this fixed (or you can recompile from source if you want it fixed before then...) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86458 ***
Happy to help. Thank /you/!