Bug 473275

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You'll need to add a stack trace; please make sure you have debuginfo
packages installed and see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
for more information about getting a useful stack trace.
Thank you.

Because this is an applet it is a little different but this is what you'll need to do.

$ debuginfo-install gnome-applets
This step install all the debug information your system needs to diagnose the crash.

Then make sure gnome-keyboard-applet is running and type
$ ps -ef | grep gnome-keyboard-applet
There will be some output, look for something like this:

500       4350     1  0 13:33 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-keyboard-applet ...

The second number is the PID of the applet process, in my case 4350.

Now run gdb to attach to the process with the PID

$ gdb /usr/libexec/gnome-keyboard-applet <PID>

You'll eventually get to the gdb prompt, enter the command "continue"

(gdb) continue

Now you can use the applet normally again, so try to make it crash using the procedure you've described in the original post. When it crashes, you should see gdb give some information and a prompt at the prompt type:

(gdb) thread apply all backtrace

gdb will give you a stack trace of what caused the crash. Paste gdb's output to this bug report as an attachment.

Thanks.

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Created attachment 332513 [details]
gdb backtrace output

Thank you for the information on producing applet backtraces. I have now included the failure backtrace in the attachment.

I have the same problem, but it happens when I plug in my Sansa e280 player. It doesn't happen with USB flash memory or with my digital camera.

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