From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Description of problem: When attempting to add some applets (it fails with Workspace Switcher, Window Menu, Window List, works for Sticky Notes, Notifcation Area, and System Monitor), I get a crash (segfault) dialog like: Application "wnck-applet" (process 3781) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault) In addition, when starting Workspace Switcher, I get the following dialog after closing the segfault dialog: The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet" Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration? Window Menu and Window List give this instead: The Window Menu applet appears to have died unexpectedly Reload this applet? I have the libwnck-2.4.0.1-1 RPM installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.4.0-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add a new panel (or use an existing one, it doesn't matter). 2. Attempt to add Window List (Right-click->Add to Panel->Utility->Window List). 3. Read the pretty crash dialog. Actual Results: The segfault dialog quoted above appears. Expected Results: The Window List applet should have loaded. Additional info: This machine was upgraded from test 2 to test 3 and then patched with the yum repository at http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/rawhide/i386/ AFAIK, it's fully up to date and the RPMs are all consistent.
Based on the output of rpm -V libwnck , it was discovered that a depenency change necessitated re-running prelink. The problem was solved by running "prelink -a".
Total weirdness. After logging out / back in, the error returned, exactly as above. After a reboot, it was gone again!
Did this behaviour disappear with the release of FC 1? If so this bug can be closed CURRENTRELEASE.