Gnome panel crashes after dist-upgrade

[Wolf Rogner]

wolf@hb:~$ sudo gnome-panel

(gnome-panel:21376): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 26
[WARN 21376] kit-hash.c:206:kit_hash_insert(): key != NULL
 Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

wolf@hb:~$ uname -a
Linux hb 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

wolf@hb:~$ gnome-panel
[1]+ Segmentation fault gnome-panel
Segmentation fault

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

Hi Pedro,

thanks for the question.

I'll attach the backtrace. I had to do it several times because the backtrace would produce different results.

However, with the one attached, I found the reason why the panel would not get restored.

.gtk-bookmarks is a file that stores shortcut for the Places menu. I did not like the long list of Documents, Music, ... So I simple deleted them, leaving only an entry
file:
in the file.
In Gnome 2.22 it seems that you have to leave the file empty in order to get the same result (in 2.20 it would get restored to the verbose list).

Fix:

Delete the line "file." and gnome-panel gets started normally.

I will try this to confirm the fact, but am pretty sure this was the flaw.

Please forward this issue to Gnome people as they need to fix this in the panel startup code.

Thanks
Wolf

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.