Bug 16891 - APM/battery applet crashes panel due to kernel/BIOS issues
Summary: APM/battery applet crashes panel due to kernel/BIOS issues
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 18113 20502 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-08-24 20:47 UTC by Dan Taylor
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2001-02-14 00:23:20 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
dmesg (3.60 KB, patch)
2000-08-25 12:59 UTC, Dan Taylor
no flags Details | Diff
messages (87.98 KB, text/plain)
2000-08-25 12:59 UTC, Dan Taylor
no flags Details
meminfo (378 bytes, text/plain)
2000-08-25 13:01 UTC, Dan Taylor
no flags Details

Description Dan Taylor 2000-08-24 20:47:11 UTC
Dell I5000e
ATI M3 video chip.
XFree86-4.0.1-0.45
r128 driver

1 system has 15" LCD SXGA+ 1400x1050
1 system has 15" LCD SXGA 1024x768

Gnome panel applet blinks 5 times & then dies (is non-existant) when gnome 
starts.

Comment 1 David Mason 2000-08-24 21:27:36 UTC
Need more clarification: You have this under applets (which are small programs
that run within the Panel). Do you mean to have this under gnome-core (which
contains the Panel itesef)? Which is crashing the Panel or an applet on the
Panel. I doubt this is an issue with the video card so please tell me if this is
a fresh install, or an upgrade. If you do not care about the configuration of
the Panel try removing ~/.gnome/panel.d and restarting.

Comment 2 Dan Taylor 2000-08-24 21:34:05 UTC
It is the panel itself that is dying. Moving to gnome-core.
This is on a fresh install + XFree86-4.0.1-0.45.i386.rpm & Xconfigurator-4.4.1-
1.i386.rpm

Comment 3 David Mason 2000-08-24 21:41:27 UTC
OK the blinking is the default number of times that the panel is restarted in
the gnome session - try logging out, going to a virtual terminal removing all of
~/.gnome and logging back in. Any change? Does it work? No?

Comment 4 Dan Taylor 2000-08-24 21:53:39 UTC
Did the above.  Panel still dies.  Did seem to blink several more times than 
before.

Comment 5 David Mason 2000-08-24 22:02:50 UTC
OK - assigning bug - if you could run $strace panel from a terminal and attach
the output here

Comment 6 Jonathan Blandford 2000-08-24 22:26:39 UTC
Daniel,

can you log in "Safe Mode" and try running `panel`, and let me know what it
says.

Thanks

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-24 23:29:54 UTC
FYI, we got private mail from Dell; the panel/battery_applet
seems to be oopsing the kernel when checking battery
status, and it seems that it may actually be a BIOS bug
in the affected machines.

Comment 8 Dan Taylor 2000-08-25 12:58:38 UTC
Panel may be crashing due to APM/battery status applet. Attaching files for 
tacking purposes.  Will move to appropriate component as well.

Comment 9 Dan Taylor 2000-08-25 12:59:11 UTC
Created attachment 2978 [details]
dmesg

Comment 10 Dan Taylor 2000-08-25 12:59:52 UTC
Created attachment 2979 [details]
messages

Comment 11 Dan Taylor 2000-08-25 13:01:38 UTC
Created attachment 2980 [details]
meminfo

Comment 12 Elliot Lee 2001-01-31 18:28:24 UTC
*** Bug 20502 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Elliot Lee 2001-01-31 23:04:06 UTC
*** Bug 18113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Elliot Lee 2001-02-01 21:04:04 UTC
Change summary

Comment 15 Elliot Lee 2001-02-14 00:23:16 UTC
The general feeling seems to be that it is the kernel that is crashing due to
hardware/BIOS bugs, and any fix in gnome-core would penalize users with working
laptops. I'm reassigning this to the kernel component - if this problem is
fixable there, that's great, otherwise the kernel guy will probably want to
close with WONTFIX.


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