Comment 11 for bug 355915

I've found that the problem occurs when I have a panel located on the
left-side of my gnome viewport.

After moving the panel back to it's initial location at the bottom of the
screen, the problem cleared up.

Luke

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Luke Whitmore <email address hidden> wrote:

> gnome-panel just hung again. I checked in top, and it was using 85% of the
> CPU and approx. 255MB of ram.
>
> if there's a way I can use backtrace to successfully obtain the required
> info, please let me know.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Luke Whitmore <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace:
>>
>> I carried out the instructions under the 'already running programs'
>> sections.
>>
>> I get to point 5.
>>
>> The program will continue running. Perform any actions necessary to
>> reproduce the crash. If the program hangs but doesn't crash you can press
>> ctrl+c in gdb while the program is frozen and then continue with the next
>> step.
>>
>> I ctrl+c in gdb but this exits from the gdb interface. It then seems
>> impossible to continue with the instructions listed.
>>
>> Could this be because a subcomponent of the gnome-panel system is hanging
>> rather than the actual gnome-panel application? If this is the case, how
>> should I proceed?
>>
>> thx
>>
>> luke
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>wrote:
>>
>>> would be interesting to know what is not clear there,
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash has "Now you make a
>>> Backtrace. " which leads to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace which has
>>> detailed explanation on how to get a backtrace of already running
>>> software, did you try to do what is detailed there? what issue do you
>>> get?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gnome-panel hangs
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355915
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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> Luke Whitmore
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