Comment 46 for bug 422110

Odd, it did start working for me. Perhaps change the preference sizes
manually (in gconf-editor? Don't know where they are located,
hopefully someone tracking this bug knows) and see if that works for
you.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Nan M <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks toobuntu, but unfortunately, any number of restarts doesn't change the bad behaviour in this installation.
> Sticky notes continues to refuse to start a new note, and size can't be upped from zeros in prefs.
> karmic
> 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
>
> --
> stickynotes_applet crashed with SIGSEGV
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422110
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> Status in The Gnome Panel Applets: Unknown
> Status in “gnome-applets” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in gnome-applets in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-applets
>
> the sticky notes applet won't start. I got the dialog asking me if I wanted to reload it which didn't work
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: amd64, x86
> Date: Mon Aug 31 22:32:04 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-applets/stickynotes_applet
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
> Package: gnome-applets 2.27.91-0ubuntu1
> ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/gnome-applets/stickynotes_applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_StickyNotesApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=18
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_IN
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
> SegvAnalysis:
>  Segfault happened at: 0x4072f0 <gtk_toggle_action_set_active@plt+4528>:        movl   $0x0,0x58(%rax)
>  PC (0x004072f0) ok
>  source "$0x0" ok
>  destination "0x58(%rax)" (0x00000058) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
> SegvReason: writing NULL VMA
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: gnome-applets
> StacktraceTop:
>  ?? ()
>  ?? ()
>  ?? ()
>  ?? ()
>  ?? ()
> Title: stickynotes_applet crashed with SIGSEGV
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
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