[gutsy] Crashing with "Deskbar has unexpectedly quit"

[Ubuntu user]

Binary package hint: deskbar-applet

After doing a couple or so searches via the deskbar applet, I am often getting this error, asking me whether I want deskbar-applet to reload or not. Some time after reloading, it crashes again. I've got this happening several times over several machine reboots, so the crashes seem to be often enough to be a significant problem.

This is on Ubuntu 7.10 final, fully updated.

[Khristian Alexander Schönrock (der-kosak)]

I get the same error, via:
1- gnome-panel freezes
2- kill gnome-panel with -9
3- gnome-panel restarts, and deskbar-applet crashes.

Sometimes the deskbar-applet crashes "on its own", asking the same question, if it should be reloaded. I removed it from the panel, and it stopped crashing.
Sad, it was the only good enough replacement for Katapult in Gnome.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Khristian Alexander Schönrock (der-kosak)]

I don't think it found anything, but, as I type, gnome-panel froze again. And it only happens when the deskbar-applet is running. Don't know what else could be conflicting with it.
What I saw was that, when gnome-panel first froze (while running gdb), it froze while deskbar-applet had an open thread, which closed when I killed gnome-panel.

[Khristian Alexander Schönrock (der-kosak)]

I found out that the deskbar-applet isn't the responsible for freezing the gnome-panel, it's Pidgin.
I purged the deskbar-applet via synaptic, now I'm going to nuke pidgin. Sorry for the waste of time here.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for let us know.