list of gnome panel applets doesnt get refreshed without restarting the panel

[Ricardo Pérez López]

1. sudo apt-get install netspeed
2. Right-click on panel, choose "Add to panel".
3. The netspeed applet doesn't appears, I can't select it to add it to the panel.
4. Log out the session and log in again.
5. Right-click on panel, choose "Add to panel".
6. Now, netspeed applet appears, and I can select it.

I think it's a lack of refreshing problem. Between step 2 and step 3, I waited
about 90-120 seconds, with the system almost without workload.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308657: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308657

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308657

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for your bug. That's known upstream:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308657

Ummm... it seems that bug is unconfirmed yet in upstream, which is rather
strange because I think this bug is very evident...

Hope this solves soon :)

Thanks,

Ricardo.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

By the way... the upstream bug
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308657) talks about gnome-panel 2.10,
and my bug is in version 2.12 (because is in breezy). Changes it anything?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not really, I've updated the upstream version though

[rasz (citizenr)]

in edgy elf adding netspeed gives me bug:

Memory status: size: 28954624 vsize: 0 resident: 28954624 share: 0 rss: 11915264 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 1159433643 rtime: 0 utime: 79 stime: 0 cutime:72 cstime: 0 timeout: 7 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225279184 (LWP 10763)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb7457313 in __waitpid_nocancel ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xb7f191b6 in gnome_gtk_module_info_get () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 0x0804c198 in ?? ()
#5 0xb75d2b28 in g_param_spec_types () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#7 0x00000010 in ?? ()
#8 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 1 (Thread -1225279184 (LWP 10763)):
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb7457313 in __waitpid_nocancel ()
   from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb7f191b6 in gnome_gtk_module_info_get () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3 <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x0804c198 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xb75d2b28 in g_param_spec_types () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
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#6 0x00000001 in ?? ()
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#7 0x00000010 in ?? ()
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#8 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that crasher has nothing to do with that bug, please open a different bug about it

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

I'm not sure "newly installed applet needs session to be restarted before it can be chosen" is still a problem in Feisty...

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

This bug is still present in the devel snapshot of karmic as of today (2009-10-06).

To automatically refresh the list inside the "Add" dialog without logging out and logging in again you can restart gnome-panel using the command:

kill -HUP $(pidof gnome-panel)

Nevertheless this is a annoying bug that should be fixed.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Upstream claims it's not a bug in gnome-panel, which sounds weird given that Fedora users reported the same problem.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

In the gnome-panel code, I wonder which function is re-reading the list of installed applets from the disk? Could it be panel_addto_query_applets() maybe? That function is full of hard to understand CORBA stuffs.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue should be fixed in the current version