Karmic: Gnome-panel repeatedly crashes with panel clock enabled
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Karmic 9.04 64-bit
gnome-applets 2.27.91-0ubuntu1
gnome-panel 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu1
gnome-panel-data 1:2.27.91-0ubuntu2
gnome-utils 2.27.91-0ubuntu1
gnome-system-tools 2.27.3-0ubuntu1
During today's karmic updates, upon reboot the gnome-panel continuously and repeatedly crashed, as when one issues a "killall gnome-panel" command. I was only able to stop the crashes by issuing the "killall gnome-panel" multiple times. The crashes stopped but of course I had no more panels.
The error causing the continuous recycling of the gnome-panel was the system not finding the proper files to run the panel clock. Here are some of the pertinent error messages:
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Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/
(gnome-panel:5407): libglade-WARNING **: could not find glade file '/usr/share/
** ERROR **: /usr/share/
aborting...
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
****
In any case, I removed the clock applet from the panel and the system booted normally.
SOLUTION:
Should anyone else experience this problem:
Stop the crashes with "killall gnome-terminal" if you can open a terminal.
Since you can't get to the panel to remove the clock, try to open a terminal, then gconf-editor.
Go to /apps/panel/applets and find the applet for the clock.
Go to the right panel of the applet, find the bonobo_iid entry ((OAFIID:
Once I rebooted, I tried adding the clock back and immediately the panel started continuously cycling once again. Selecting "Unset key" for that newly created applet entry immediately fixed the problem.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.