Indicator-Applet doesn't start

[David Pothecary]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Indicator-Applet appears to crash on startup, so doesn't show the username or shutdown buttons in the panel.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: gnome-panel: ../../src/xcb_io.c:385: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
Date: Thu Apr 15 19:24:15 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 __assert_fail () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 _XAllocID () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
Title: gnome-panel assert failure: gnome-panel: ../../src/xcb_io.c:385: _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed.
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2420): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #563560, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[David Pothecary (david-pothecary)]

The duplicate given by launchpad refers to synaptic package manager, this is an issue with Gnome-Panel or Indicator-Applet.

[Piotr Kęplicz (keplicz)]

Root cause of these bugs seems to be the same.