Bug 111244
| Summary: | gnome-panel crashes on root X11 login | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe> | ||||
| Component: | gnome-panel | Assignee: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | shillman, stephan.litterst | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
| Whiteboard: | |||||||
| Fixed In Version: | gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-9 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2005-05-18 14:22:54 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
| Embargoed: | |||||||
| Attachments: |
|
||||||
Created attachment 96257 [details]
strace -o /tmp/panel.trace gnome-panel
an strace of root launching the gnome-panel via a Terminal after clicking 'OK'
in the crash dialog repeatedly until the gnome session (minus panel) was up.
I am unable to reproduce this behavior on my own RHEL3 machine internally. Is this something that you can cause to happen on multiple machines, or only a specific one? Mr Litterst, as I am unablke to be on-site at the moment, could you please attach the kickstart file we use to install the machine ti this bug? Can you also please try to reproduce the behaviour on a second machine (once you have a second machine for testing)? Thank you, Patrick Ernzer Patrick: any more information on this bug?
+ Is it generally reproducible for you on a new install
+ If not, how specifically is the panel configured?
+ Could you attempt to get a stack trace of the crash,
preferrably with the debuginfo package installed
Thanks...
Ah, looking at the strace I see that $HOME was set to '/'. gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-9 fixed a bug at login when $HOME is set to '/' RHBA-2004:482 is the errata number Hi Marc, Where can I find gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-9??? On RHN there's only gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-8 Thanks Stephan Hmm, gnome-panel-2.2.2.1-9 seems to have missed the Quaterly Update. If neccessary, you should be able to ask support for a hotfix package in advance of the next quaterly update. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-454.html |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031023 Description of problem: When logging into X11, Gnome as root, the 'gnome-panel' crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2.2.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. log into X11 as root 2. wait for session to start 3. panel crashes Actual Results: gnome panel crashes (repeatedly), clicking 'OK' in the crash dialog repeatedly will yield after some time a gnome session minux panel. Expected Results: a warning window telling the user not to log in as root, followed by a working Gnome session, panel included Additional info: yes, I did tell customer not to log into Gnome as root, still the panel should not crash. All other users are fine.