Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75138
Panel Crashes after moving to vertical postion on Right side of screen.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: Fresh install of an 8.0 box. Dragged the panel to the right so it was vertical. Logged out and loged back in. The Panel dies, puts up a crash report, click ok, panel respawns, puts up a crash report.... remove .gconf and start over. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Take a Fresh install, log in as a user 2.move panel to right side of screen 3.log out 4.log back in. Actual Results: Panel crashes spits a warning, respawns and crashes again. Expected Results: no crash Additional info:
Tracked as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94625 (the workaround for now is no tray applets on vertical panels)
*** Bug 75578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm working on a new panel package btw, for this and menu editing.
I hate to nit pick- but there really should be an errata about this at least describing the problem, how to avoid it, what to do if it gets you, and when a fix will be released. Judging from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94625 this is a fairly commonly encountered bug. I ran into it my first day using RH 8 - and others have too. It's serious enough there should be an errata on it.
Yes, agreed. I want to get menu editing in the errata too, that's the hard part.
Someone suggested mentioning how to recover from this: go to a virtual console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) or ssh in to the machine, move ~/.gconf/apps/panel to ~/.old-panel-config or something, and then reconfigure the panel (not putting the tray applet on the vertical panel)
*** Bug 77368 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** Bug 78014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 78857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 73398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-219.html