Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72020
Clock applet cause panel crash on Laptop
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:42 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: On my ThinkPad A20p, loading the clock applet in the panel will cause the panel to crash Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a ThinkPad A20p 2. Login to X 3. Add the clock applet to the panel Actual Results: The panel crashes. The session manager then restarts the panel forever. (See gnome-session bug) Expected Results: A clock applet runs in the panel Additional info:
This just has to be thinkpad-specific somehow, as there are no other reports. I'm not sure how to go about debugging it...
works fine on ThinkPad T20
Is it possible to run the clock outside the panel so I could get useful debugging information from it?
No, the clock is a dlopen() module loaded by the panel. It is in the gnome-panel RPM though - If you rebuild the rpm with something like "rpm --define "optflags -g" -ba gnome-panel.spec" you would get a panel RPM with debug symbols.
I did a full install on the laptop instead of an upgrade and this problem went away. I was having a bunch of odd gtk problems, so maybe there was a bad library somewhere even though I had removed /usr/local/lib.
Ok, I'm going to close this as 'worksforme' since we have been unable to duplicate this and since it's no longer happening for you. It sounds like your machine was in a weird state to begin with, so the chances of reproducing it are pretty slim. If you see the behavior again, please reopen this bug report.