Comment 5 for bug 498474

That doesn't seem to work... I've attached the running gnome-panel in gdb as described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace , but when I ctrl+c in order to interrupt the process, it seems to work (in that the cursor stops changing when hovering above the file selection window) but I don't get the (gdb) prompt back so I can't ask it for a backtrace.

That's how it looks like:
<blabla debuging symbols>
(gdb) continue
Continuing.
<here I make it hang>
^C
<nothing more>

I'm sorry, but the extent of my gdb experience so far is launching programs in it, making them crash, then getting the backtrace. I've never interrupted a process before to get a trace. As you said, since it seems to enter an infinite loop, the trace we'll get might not even be relevant at all.

Wouldn't it be easier for a dev to reproduce this bug and investigate it himself? If you insist on me doing it, maybe you can guide me through the steps on irc or something. I'm "iceman" on #ubuntu-bugs.