From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Epiphany/1.2.4 Description of problem: This is a hard-to-reproduce bug. :/ Sometimes, after the first launch of the gnome-panel (before it has had a chance to cache the icons for the menuitems), I can get the panel to freeze and/or crash while loading icons. This is the first time I've been able to get a backtrace out of it, but sadly I couldn't copy and paste it so I've copied what seem to be the relevant parts of the path here. Basically, it looks like something is freezing in gnome_desktop_item_find_icon. I don't know exactly what it is, but the backtrace showed these functions were responsible: gtk_main g_main_loop_run g_main_context_dispatch g_main_context_dispatch g_main_depth g_child_watch_add panel_make_menu_icon gnome_desktop_item_find_icon Might it have something to do with having a home directory mounted on NFS? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-panel-2.6.0-9 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. On fresh launch of gnome-panel, hover over menu items in main menu 2. I'm not sure exactly how to reproduce. It's difficult. :/ 3. Sometimes will result in a freeze; other times, will result in a crash. Actual Results: This time, it froze. Focus was stolen, hitting 'Esc' on the keyboard did not work, and clicking outside of the menu area also did not work. Expected Results: The panel should cache all of the icons before the user even hovers over them, IMHO. Maybe even keep them cached in a special spot before it launches so that the menus are instantaneous and there is no first-launch lag.
I'd really need a full stack trace with debuginfo to figure out what's going on here. If it happes again, switch to console or ssh in and get a stack trace from there. Also, I'm going to be updating to the gnome-panel from GNOME 2.7 very shortly, so hopefully the problem might go away.
No response, assuming problem went away