gnome panel segfaults when clicking on main menu

[Asif Youssuff]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

asif@ubuntu-asif:~$ gnome-panel
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Adding applet 0.
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Initialized Panel Applet Signaler.
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Adding applet 1.
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Adding applet 2.
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Adding applet 3.

(gnome-panel:4913): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.19.1/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Adding applet 4.
** (gnome-panel:4913): DEBUG: Adding applet 5.
Segmentation fault

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 79bebc7f01242103327eca5c3a50af97
CheckboxSystem: 55ba142b3b792c71cc61171c782c3b13
Date: Thu Dec 3 14:16:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-6.8-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-6-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[shiftyphil (phil-higgins)]

I have this bug as well.

It is not creating a crash dump file, and even if it did, apport is broken.

However, it looks like this actual error is in libgnome-menu2, since several programs are crashing.

From dmesg:
gmenu-simple-ed[10586]: segfault at 73 ip 00007fa6c574b4f0 sp 00007fff69365e18 error 4 in libgnome-menu.so.2.4.2[7fa6c5747000+18000]
update-gnome-me[15145]: segfault at 73 ip 00007f5b909474f0 sp 00007fffe3d68378 error 4 in libgnome-menu.so.2.4.2[7f5b90943000+18000]
 gnome-panel[6851]: segfault at 73 ip 00007fca6b0574f0 sp 00007fffbebb1638 error 4 in libgnome-menu.so.2.4.2[7fca6b053000+18000]

[Asif Youssuff (yoasif)]

This is no longer an issue for me when using
gnome-panel:
  Installed: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu8