gnome-panel gets stuck when showing modal dialogs

[Albert Cardona]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

On occasions, not always, the application "gnome-panel" gets stuck when showing a modal dialog, particularly with java 1.6.0_12 and _16, both on 386 and amd64.

Other applications like Wink (for creating animated tutorials as a flash .swf) also lock up gnome-panel on occasions.

The simple solution is to control+alt+F2 to a tty, login, then killall gnome-panel, then control+alt+F7 to return to the X11 desktop.

The bug is a total killer for ubuntu beginners who don't know how to work around it.

I have observed the bug in 9.04 and in 9.10.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 29 17:37:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Albert Cardona (cardona)]

I am not a gnome developer. Nor do I have infinite time to learn all the caveats of doing what you proposed me to do.

I reported this bug to bring it to the attention of Ubuntu developers, and in the hope that knowing about it would be useful to you all.

The bug exists. Closing this bug report does not alter this fact.