GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 79815
panel segmentation falt on clean redhat install (panel Crash at 66.24.17.224)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: panel Version: 1.4.0.4 Severity: >Synopsis: panel segmentation falt on clean redhat install >Class: sw-bug System: redhat 7.2 clean install intel processor >Description: Application "panel" (process 5793) has crashed due to a fatal error . (Segmentation fault) message appears after a clean redhat 7.2 install on intel system. >How-To-Repeat: cleanly installed redhat 7.2 on system. load gnome via startx. deleting all .gnome* files in $HOME seemed to fix the problem. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-04-24 20:55 ------- The original reporter (craigsjunk@yahoo.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
I found two solutions to this problem (other than manually reloading the panel each time): 1. Remove the panel file in $HOME/.gnome/panel Once the file is regererated by gnome, it works from then on for that particular user. The problem is repeated (on my machine) for each new user added with via useradd -m; so $HOME/.gnome/panel must be removed for each new user added. 2. Upgrading from Xfree86 v3 to XFree86 v4 For some reason Redhat 7.2 decided to use Xfree86 v3 on clean install instead of v4, as is typically done. (RH 7.2 ships w/ both Xf86 v3 & 4). So I reconfigured to use Xfree86 v4 via Xconfigurator --expert --preferxf4. Once I did this the problem went away--even for new users created via useradd -m. Perhaps this problem is limited to Xfree86 v3.
you are right.. this is a known problem we are working on. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69333 ***