Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119253
gnome-session fails on "log out" menu activation
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:39 EST
Description of problem: Choosing the "Log Out" menu item (main Gnome menu) recently crashes gnome-session (returns to chooser) instead of giving "log out"/"shut down"/"reboot" options. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.0-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose Gnome menu item "Log Out" 2. 3. Actual results: (gnome-session:1908): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_set_valist: construct property "type" for object `GtkDialog' can't be set after construction The program 'gnome-session' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 1396 error_code 8 request_code 42 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Expected results: Choice window "log out"/"shut down"/"reboot" appears. Additional info: Very important info: I've been updating my FC1 from Fedora-development every once in a while on interesting packages, but recently chickened out on the Gnome-2.5 updates. I had some problem with gtk2-2.4.0, so I reverted that. I assume I've done some package update which clashes with gnome-session. I don't know how to run gnome-session with "--sync". I'm attaching my (censored ;->) list of installed packages and a sorted list showing my recently installed packages. Thanks, Moritz
Created attachment 98903 [details] Output from rpm -qa --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n" | sort -u
Created attachment 98904 [details] Output from rpm -qa --queryformat='%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' | sort -n | tail -201
Your glib 2.4.0 is conflicting with gnome-session 2.4.0. I'll do a gnome-session errata this week with a fix.
Hmm, since www.gtk.org claims gtk+2 and glib2 to be binary compatible, I wouldn't have expected this. ;-) Otherwise, the likely result would've been NOTABUG, since I'm doing partial updates, and you can't predict things like "Conflicts: glib >= 2.3.x" when 2.2 is current. ;-) I just wanted to know which component was messing it up for me. (My Bluecurve theme has also mysteriously disappeared, I think.) Thanks, Moritz
Well, gtk2/glib2 *are* binary compatible but not to the point of working around bugs in applications. This is a gnome-session bug, but it is only triggered by glib 2.4.0. The bluecurve thing you're seeing is because the location of theme engines has change with gtk 2.4.0 (or something). You need a new redhat-artwork to go with it, basically.
Moritz: could you try rebuilding this and see if it fixes the logout dialog problem with glib-2.6 installed: http://people.redhat.com/markmc/gnome-session-2.4.0-3.src.rpm (rebuild with "rpm --rebuild gnome-session-2.4.0-3.src.rpm") Please let me know if it works for you and I'll release an errata straight away
Thanks Mark! Built fine, installed fine, and now, after an X11 restart, the "Log Out" menu works as expected. Haven't checked much else though. I very much assume you mean glib-2.4 and not glib-2.6!? PROMPT> rpm -qa | egrep "^(glib-|gtk2-)" | sort glib2-2.4.0-1 glib2-devel-2.4.0-1 gtk2-2.2.4-5.2 gtk2-devel-2.2.4-5.2 gtk2-engines-2.2.0-3 If you release an errata, I'll gladly approve a "Closed (Errata)". :-) (Now I found something minor in gnome-panel ... gotta run! ;->)
Thank you, closed!