Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80231
rhn-applet-gui is gone, and crashes if restarted
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
When I log in after an upgrade from 8.0 to the first public beta, the rhn applet icon is gone from the notification area of the gnome panel. If I try to restart it, I get: ** ERROR ** file pygobject.c: line 122 (ygobject_lookup_class): assertion failed: (type != NULL) aborting Trace/breakpoint trap Could it be just because the machine used to be registered with the 8.0 install, but is no longer registered in the new install (install from scratch, not upgrade).
In my case, I did a _clean_ install of Phoebe, rather than an update (over 8.0/Psyche). The applet shows in the menus, but NEVER shows up in the panet (either under Gnome, *or* KDE).
I tried recompiling it and instead of the error mentioned above it runs, and appears in the panel. But if I select any of the options I get a Segmentation fault. Since it is a python script I can't debug it with gdb. So I am going to attach the last part of the output of strace.
Created attachment 88983 [details] strace info
Same assertion failure and abort here, after 8.0 -> Phoebe upgrade. (Note: I already did "rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/bonobo" as mentioned in bug 79652 and up2date does work for me).
I just created a new user and logged in. I found rhn-applet-gui working, but then it still crashes on my main account. I think the out of the box issue is lack of a recent version of rpm.
Okay, first I was able to reproduce the rhn applet start problem on Phoebe. Second I upgraded with rhn-applet-2.0.7-1 which is in the Rawhide tree (or will soon show up), that was sufficient to solve the initial problem, the menus are functional, no crash and proper report of the status apparently. The problem of the rhn-applet not showing up in the Gnome toolbar list of applet is due to a change in the Gnome configuration path, I expect to fix this in time for the release. I don't know where the problem for Nathan G. Grennan main account comes from, could you try to remove ~/.rhn-applet.cache and restart the applet ? Could you also check that ~/.rhn-applet.conf has no trouble usually all entries are empty except Consent=1 or some IgnoredPackages being defined. Daniel
After upgrading to rhn-applet-2.0.7-1 I no longer see any crashes.
Okay, note that to avoid a memory leak you aso need to update pygtk2 (see bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81341) Daniel
I've updated stuff from Rawhide, including the glibc libraries and the rhn_applet. It now works!