dragging the top panel around with a multiload-applet-2 in it causes a crash

[Chris Moore]

Here's how:

1. right-click in some empty space on the panel at the top of the screen
2. "Add to Panel..."
3. click "System Monitor" in the "System & Hardware" section
4. click "Add"
5. right-click on the cpu-meter that appears in the panel
6. click 'Preferences'
7. turn on 3 or 4 of the graphs. I use "processor", "network", "swap space" and
"harddisk"
8. click 'Close"
9. find some more empty space on the panel at the top of the screen
10. click and hold the left mouse button on that empty space in the panel. the
mouse cursor should become a fist
11. drag the fist to the left border of the screen. the panel will redraw along
the left side. I usually get a crash at this point. if you don't get a crash,
keep the left mouse button held down and try dragging to the right side and the
bottom edge in turn. wave the mouse around all over the screen. I always get a
crash within a few seconds of doing this.

The crash looks like this:

  The application "multiload-applet-2" has quit unexpectedly.

At that time, my mouse cursor is stuck as a fist, and won't click anywhere, so I
have to use the keyboard to chose "close". Then I see:

  "System Monitor" has quit unexpectedly, along with the option to reload it.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316911: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316911

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. I've forwarded the issue upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316911

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

This has just been fixed upstream. Does anything need to happen here to get the fix?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Chris, it will be uploaded with the next gnome-applets release.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 gnome-applets (2.13.90-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release: "Codename Schmoozie":
     - Mixer icons more logical (Malone: #30837)
     - Fix crasher in multiload caused by dragging panel around (Malone:
       #22208)
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