Gnome-panels blinks repeatedly, then crashes... by the Penguin app

[Joe Cormier]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

After adding the 'Penguin Family' (whatever it calls itself) in the one of the gnome-panel... it immediately blinks multiple times, then crashes.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 19 11:09:26 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 2.18.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id 117f000101000117431335100000050480000 --screen 0
ProcCwd: /home/johnny
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
StacktraceTop:
 free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ORBit_free_T () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux johnny-desktop 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Sun Mar 18 03:07:14 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin plugdev scanner video

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report. The crash looks like a memory corruption. Could you try to get a valgrind log for it? (you can follow the instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind for that)

[Joe Cormier (joe-cormier7)]

Hi there,

       Here's your valgrind's info.... However I don't think it's memory issues, from what I'm currently experiencing, is that, when I'm re-boot/re-start my computer, it (the problem) re-produces itself again, and again, etc....

[[[[ By-The-Way! the Valgrind's log might be incomplete:< ' ** ERROR **: file orbit-object.c: line 149 (do_unref): assertion failed: (robj->refs < ORBIT_REFCOUNT_MAX && robj->refs > 0)
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped) ' is what it gave me back.... ]]]]

PS - I'm a newbie at this reporting stuff, so if there's more information about on how to send extra info for troubleshooting this problem, tell me so!!

PPS - How do I restore gnome-panel to it's original state (before applied applets)?

[Joe Cormier (joe-cormier7)]

Hi,,,

    I don't know if this matters and/or related to these panel problems?!

      *** ctrl-alt-f1 => ' sudo apt-get install (something called) *-gtk-* ' seems to have fixed the problem, and that it also had me do some language-packages re-installation, because it broke it somehow when re-installing the GTK.....***

PS - I'm sorry I can't give more detailed information, however, it seems to be working now.

ALSO - I removed the offending xpenguin app that caused the rucause (to be buried alive, ;-)) .

Later!

[DrCore (launchpad-drsdre)]

I can concur. After adding the xpenguin app, the panel keeps crashing with:

(gnome-panel:9429): GConf-WARNING **: Directory `/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by GConfClient 0x80ca448

(gnome-panel:9429): GConf-WARNING **: Directory `/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by GConfClient 0x80ca448

(gnome-panel:9429): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -12 and height 24

** ERROR **: file orbit-object.c: line 149 (do_unref): assertion failed: (robj->refs < ORBIT_REFCOUNT_MAX && robj->refs > 0)
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)