"User Switcher" has quit unexpectedly

[Amir E. Aharoni]

* Installed Ubuntu 8.10
* Installed package kde (not kubuntu-desktop)
* Logged in to a Gnome session

This error appears:

"User Switcher" has quit unexpectedly

* Right-click the panel
* Click "add to panel"
* select "User Switcher"

The same message appears.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

As you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart. Once you have done this, repeat the steps necessary to recreate the crash.

If you don't see a crash notification and you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Amir E. Aharoni (amir-aharoni)]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I set enabled=1 in /etc/default/apport , restarted the machine, logged in and tried to add this panel app again. I received the same error, but no crash report was created in /var/crash .

[Amir E. Aharoni (amir-aharoni)]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Chris Coulson
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or
> challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these
> instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can
> be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I left a comment at the bug page. Since you closed it, i'm not sure
you received. (I'm not very experienced with Launchpad.)

Thanks for your attention.

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[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you please attach your ~/.xsession-errors after this occurs. Could you also please try this with a fresh user account (or the guest account).

Thanks

[Amir E. Aharoni (amir-aharoni)]

Nothing gets written to ~/.xsession-errors when this occurs. (I watched it with tail -f )

When i tried it with another user account, i got a dialog box with this error the first time:

---
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet".

Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
---

If i tried to add it manually, the behavior was the same as with my own account.

[Amir E. Aharoni (amir-aharoni)]

Sorry for bugging, but is this still considered "incomplete"?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Are you using kdm or gdm to login to your Gnome session?

[Amir E. Aharoni (amir-aharoni)]

> Are you using kdm or gdm to login to your Gnome session?

I use kdm.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Could you please try switching back to kdm and try again?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Right, it seems that fast-user-switch-applet is not designed to work with KDM. This has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 290509

[aditya (aditya-kavoor)]

This is the command to get back to GDM :

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

[Ludicrous50 (jrizzo)]

I am getting a error upon first boot of newly install 8.1.0 server. "the panel encountered a problem while loading OAF11D:gnome_fast user swither applet.

I am not using KDM so I do not see it as a duplicate of 290509.

I only get this error loading on a multiple drive format. I can load to one drive and launch Ubuntu with no error. When I load to mirror or raid 5 I see this error. This error has appeared on a fresh NOS load on two distinctly different machines. I have tried all fixes I can find on the internet and I am still at a loss.

Any assitance would be appreiciated.