From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: python seg fault on reboot. seg fault in /usr/bin/python : process 1337 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: From the Gnome desktop. 1.Click on 'Main Menu' button. 2.Click on 'Log out'. 3.When the dialog box appears select 'Reboot' and click ok. Actual Results: Error dialog appears stating that a seg fault has occurred in /usr/bin/python : process 1337. Then the system will reboot without any further user action. Expected Results: It should reboot cleanly, with no error dialogs. Additional info:
After further looking this crash i.e. a quick look at '/proc/1337' I found this is related to the rhn_applet i.e. the rhn update checker which lives on the Gnome main desktop menu. Once this applet is removed, I experience no more seg faults when rebooting.
Hum, I'm unable to reproduce this on Red Hat 8 or Red Hat 9 following the exact same steps. If you have a way to reproduce this behaviour on a recent version please reopen the bug and provide those, thanks, Daniel