corruption of netbook-launcher at startup

[Santiago Roland]

Binary package hint: netbook-launcher

Some portion of netbook-launcher is missing... it happens a 70% of the time.... it is odd. killing the app and re-launching it again fixes the bug. It also causes gnome-panel to look all transparent, see NEW reported bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/609385) and it screenshots....

regards,

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: netbook-launcher 1:2.1.18-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 24 01:38:54 2010
DkmsStatus: bcmwl, 5.60.48.36+bdcom, 2.6.32-23-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6735s
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic root=UUID=27878af5-c2c9-4ca8-975c-5705c31a6d8c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: netbook-launcher
dmi.bios.date: 09/14/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68GPP Ver. F.0E
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 30E4
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 94.20
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU916223Y
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68GPPVer.F.0E:bd09/14/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaq6735s:pvrF.0E:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30E4:rvrKBCVersion94.20:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 6735s
dmi.product.version: F.0E
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-23-generic

[Santiago Roland (santiago-roland)]

anyone?

[Sebastien Lumineau (sebastien-lumineau)]

With UNE 10.04, I have the following wrong behaviour that might be related. You can easily reproduce the issue doing this (I reproduced the exact scene twice on a eeepc 1005-HA and in an Vbox VM):

** test 1 **

- choose "Unbuntu Netbook Edition 2D" session when you log in (there is no pb with the standard "Unbuntu Netbook Edition")

- as soon as icons show up, click one app (for instance I run Evolution from my favorite) = note that you run an app *before* you hear the ubuntu welcome sound and *before* the top bar appears

- once the welcome sound as played an the top bar is there, quit your app (Evolution)

- surprise: no more icons, no more menu, netbook-launcher-elf is gone !

- whereas "ps aux | grep netbook-launcher-elf" shows that it still running

** test2 **

- now, give a chance to the netbook-launcher-elf: wait for the login process to end "properly"

- ok, you've heard the welcome sound, the desktop and the top bar are well displayed

- then, launch an app (Evolution again); quit; check that icons are still here. ok, netbook-launcher-elf is still working

- now, switch from current workspace to others (I kept the default panel number = 4); you can see that netbook-launcher-elf is not diplayed on others; it displays only on one workspace

- now, open a terminal and "restart" netbook-launcher-elf:
    kill `pidof netbook-launcher-elf`; netbook-launcher-elf &

- notice that now netbook-launcher-elf appears on all workspaces

- if you want to trace errors, rerun netbook-launcher-elf with debug option like this
    kill `pidof netbook-launcher-elf`; netbook-launcher-elf -d=1 &

    for instance, mine shows this at the begining
      "ERR: conf.c:691 conf_theme_get() no theme entry."