GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309539
clicking restart when gnome panel crash makes it to attempte to restart over and over
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:56 UTC
Please describe the problem: clicking restart when gnome panel crash makes it to attempte to restart over and over IRC conversation about that: Manny hub: a 2nd panel is spawned if you press "restart". This is cracky. Manny because the panel is registered as being auto-restarted at the session manager mathrick hub: you should have chosen "close" Manny mathrick: the "Restart" option shouldn't have been presented in the first place mathrick and second one gets registered as such too Steps to reproduce: crash the panel click restart Actual results: Expected results: not showing the restart button Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
seems to be a duplicate of #309506 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 309506 ***
wrong, bug, same issue as #308424, there is probably some other dups ... Vincent?
The problem is that gnome-session is respawning the panel. And when you click restart, you start a new panel... So there are two panels...
well I think it has been addressed recentle, because the panel crashed a lot lately... It is worth doing some QA and closing if needed.
I just experienced it a few minutes ago :-)
*** Bug 314202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 327686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From bug 327686: "Maybe the right fix would be to tell gnome_segv to not restart programs that will be already restarted by the session." Can be a good solution.
Hi ! Have exactly the same problem, with FC5. But i wish to know howto to "tell gnome_segv to not restart programs that will be already restarted by the session", please .... :-p thx :) BTW, here is the message it returns when trying to restart gnome-panel : [johndoe@Fopadix-fc5 ~]$ gnome-panel restart gnome-panel: symbol lookup error: gnome-panel: undefined symbol: g_type_register_static_simple [johndoe@Fopadix-fc5 ~]$
Created attachment 68650 [details] gnome-panel warning : no symbols and here is a screen shot about the message i get when trying to view gnome-panel file using mc
After i uninstall gnome-panel and all deps, and reinstall it, i have this message : There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: System exception: IDL:Bonobo/GeneralError:1.0 : Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occurred GNOME will still try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. hope it helps
On the other hand, is the "The panel is already running" dialog even useful? If you start a second gedit or gnome-terminal instance, they don't pop up an error dialog. Maybe gnome-panel should just silently exit? Maybe it should do the equivalent of right clicking on a panel and choosing "New Panel" ?
I removed the error dialog and committed something that should end this endless loop.