killall gnome-panel results in a gaim crash.

[Kent Nyberg]

I use Ubuntu Hoary, newly updated.
If i use gaim with the plugin for notification area, and then kill the
gnome-panel (killall gnome-panel),
then the panel restarts (as it should) but gaim seems to die, and it dont respawn.
I dont know the internal stuff of gaim, but it seems like a bug in the plugin
for notif.area.
I dont know how this should/could be handled, but hopefully gaim could solve it
some how?
Could be argued that one just should not kill the panel, but for example, some
time the theme-manager dont seem to update
theme when i change themes, i can make it work by killing the panel, restarting
nautilus etc. Not something one should do, but since i *can* do it, and since
other application can handle it, perhaps gaim should be able to do it aswell?
i dont want to mess with my panel to much, but if gaim cant handle if the panel
die, then perhaps it cant handle if a user simply removes the panel with the
notif.area? If so, then its a bigger problem, since removing the panel should
not kill running applications without some how telling what will happen if it is
removed.
I dont want to remove it now, since i've put some time into making it look nice.
sorry for that :(

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123184&group_id=235&atid=100235: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123184&group_id=235&atid=100235

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you use gnome-panel 2.9.90 ? seems to work fine here

[Kent Nyberg (nyberg-kent)]

Yes, i run gnome-panel 2.9.90. (I upgrade Hoary on a daily basis more or less)
I started gaim from gnome-terminal to perhaps catch some message on killing
gnome-panel, but oddly enough, if i start gaim from
the terminal it wont die when I kill gnome-panel. I still can reproduce it over
and over again if i start it from the gnome menu.

Well, i did get some messages from the terminal, but since it did not crash when
run from terminal, i dont think they are so interesting.
But here they are:

"art_render_invoke: no image source given
art_render_invoke: no image source given

(gaim:17647): librsvg-WARNING **: Error setting CSS SAC handler"

If you can think of some way to make it give more information about why it
crash, please tell me and i will do it.
I have a 2mb (soon to bee 8mb) adsl-line, and im not afraid of giving some one
from Ubuntu an account to perhaps run gaim remotly to see if it still behaves
like this.
Its ADSL so i think it will be kind of slow, since if i recall ADSL is not fast
when it comes to my computer sending.

I will try to create another user later on, and see if it behaves like that for
that user. But i will have to wait until i can finished with this session.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

ok, it still crash here too. In fact I restart the panel often and always get
the gaim crash but didn't get when I tried yesterday so I thought than maybe it
was fixed with the new version.
This happen only if you kill the panel, if you remove it or remove the notify
area the gaim list is jut opened and that works fine, since which is not a
common user case.

Just a note: you probably want to restart gnome-settings-daemon for the themes
changes, not the panel (bug #8077).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

One upstream bug for this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123184&group_id=235&atid=100235

[Luke Schierer (lschiere)]

this is upstream at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123184&group_id=235&atid=100235

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

this bug is fixed with the current versions