GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 99561
Gnome panel crashes repeatedly
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
From: Phil Holden <eeyore@waitrose.com> To: submit@bugs.gnome.org X-Mailer: bug-buddy 2.2.0 Subject: Gnome panel crashes repeatedly Package: gnome-panel Severity: Serious Version: 2.0.6 Synopsis: Gnome panel crashes repeatedly Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel Bugzilla-Component: Panel BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.0.3) Description: Gnome panel crashes repeatedly Description of Problem: Gnome panel crashes repeatedly Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Started Gnome desktop after installing RedHat 8.0 2. Moved panel to preferred position which is vertical at right of screen. 3. Configured flashing red blob (RedHat notification tool) and removed it from the panel. 4. Noticed faint stripe near where red blob had been (like a light grey and dark grey barber's pole) 5. Clicked on this or click/dragged to see what it was. Actual Results: Gnome panel reported crash in an Error dialog box. Click Close, panel restarts and promptly crashes again. Expected Results: How often does this happen? Every time. Restarted X server - still occurs. Removed $HOME/.gnome* and /tmp/orbit-$USER and restarted X server, still occurs. Went looking for files called desktop or panel. Then removed all of $HOME/.gnome*, $HOME/.gconf* and /tmp/orbit-$USER. The logged in OK, without panel crashes. Panel has reverted to default position at bottom of screen. Later it happened again, also with the panel on the right. The bug report for this is attached, in case the backtrace shows anything different. Additional Information: I can't find anything similar at bugzilla.gnome.org. Restarted X server to try to regain control of Gnome desktop (telinit 3, then telinit 5) On logging in to Gnome desktop, panel crash as above continued to occur. It's not possible to exit from the desktop as the only logout method is on the panel, which has crashed. Fortunately KDE is still operational (with panel on the right). ~/.xsession-errors contains the following messages (gnome-background-properties:12481): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. (gnome-panel:12483): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. Unable to open desktop file file:///home/philh/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/hadjaha-007cc35f4a.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file 'file:///home/philh/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/hadjaha-007cc35f4a.desktop': File not found Unable to open desktop file applications:///Internet/redhat-email.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file 'applications:///Internet/redhat-email.desktop': File not found Unable to open desktop file applications:///Office/redhat-word-processor.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file 'applications:///Office/redhat-word-processor.desktop': File not found Unable to open desktop file applications:///Office/redhat-presentations.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file 'applications:///Office/redhat-presentations.desktop': File not found Unable to open desktop file applications:///Office/redhat-spreadsheet.desktop for panel launcher: Error reading file 'applications:///Office/redhat-spreadsheet.desktop': File not found system-tray-applet-ERROR **: file obox.c: line 107 (get_class): should not be reached aborting... *** end of .xsession-errors messages. ***** Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-panel' (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 8192 (LWP 11570)] 0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
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Thread 1 (Thread 8192 (LWP 11570))
------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-11-25 17:19 ------- The original reporter (eeyore@waitrose.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, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94625 ***