GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 368652
The keyboard Layout Indicator (gswitchit) Crash on invocation
Last modified: 2006-11-03 18:11:50 UTC
Distribution: Debian 4.0 Package: gnome-applets Severity: critical Version: GNOME2.14.3 gnome-applet 2.14.3-1+b1 Gnome-Distributor: Debian Synopsis: The keyboard Layout Indicator Crash on invocation Bugzilla-Product: gnome-applets Bugzilla-Component: keyboard indicator (gswitchit) Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.14.1) Description: Description of the crash: After trying to add the applet it crash directly with an error message. The message does not say anything except that the applet has crash. Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. right click on gnome menu bar... 2. click on add applet... 3. select keyboard indicator layout (gswitchit), it try to load then crash... Expected Results: the applet should load and be added to the menu bar, indicating the default layout and representing the possibility of change the layout to a secundary one. How often does this happen? Always. Additional Information: None. Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/libexec/gswitchit' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1223530816 (LWP 2960)] (no debugging symbols found) 0xb7fdc410 in ?? ()
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Thread 1 (Thread -1223530816 (LWP 2960))
------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2006-11-01 01:48 -------
I'm afraid this stack trace is not really useful. What is your distro? Would you be able to build libxklavier and gnome-applets with debug info?
hi Sergey... i am sorry if i am not so informative, i am new on this bug tracking system, normally i try to solve my problems on my own... :) Whell, my distro is: dracul@cardenas:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.18-1-686 (Debian 2.6.18-3) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061007 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-16)) #1 SMP Sat Oct 21 17:21:28 UTC 2006 dracul@cardenas:~$ normally i dont bill from source any package unless relative necessity, but i can do it, of course, ... can i optain debuging info without building from source??? gnome-applets has been installed from a standard repository with apt tool... regards juan cardenas
I am not sure where you can get debug packages for your distribution, so it might be simpler to build. Just "apt-get source libxklavier" and "dpkg-buildpackage" is a simple thing to do, isn't it?;) So, looking forward to getting more informative stack trace from you;)
Created attachment 75870 [details] building process
hi sergey i did what you ask, download source and compile, i need to solve some dependencies on compiling time but everything ok... after installed the new builded package, the issue remains... what should i do now???... maybe run something with some especial directive to get the debugging info you want or need???... please be as much specific as you can here, i am new remember... sorry for that... :( i attach a file with all the compiling and installing process so you can correct me if i did something wrong, or not what should i ... best regards juan cardenas
Now, when you have it manually built - did the stacktrace change on crash?
no, nothing change, same behavior on everything, same error message, same questions, even the "bug report tool" makes the same report on the error... this is the error message that prints on crash... The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_KeyboardApplet". Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration ? does this mean something relevant to you??? regards juan
This looks very much like a duplicate of bug #367195. See my comments there and the corresponding Debian bug report.
I am marking this as a duplicate on the basis of same Debian GNOME version in both reports, similar description of the crash and timing of the bug reports (and other duplicates) that coincide with the recent Debian package updates. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 367195 ***
> The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_KeyboardApplet". > Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration ? Usually it means /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_KeyboardApplet.server contains wrong patch. Could you please check it? If you feel your problem is a duplicate, feel free to close as DUPLICATE.