Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

add panel won't work till new login

Bug #560782 reported by PAUL GIBSON on 2010-04-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #525368: problem when adding new panels to gnome desktop. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-panel (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I delete a panel and then add a new panel, the new panel doesn't show up until I logout and log back in.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 11 10:10:11 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic

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PAUL GIBSON (pgpaulg) wrote on 2010-04-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (23.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (725 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Rickard Närström (riccetn) on 2010-04-12

affects:

ubuntu → gnome-panel (Ubuntu)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-04-12:

works fine here, could you create a new user and test there if you can reproduce the issue? Thanks.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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PAUL GIBSON (pgpaulg) wrote on 2010-04-13: Re: [Bug 560782] Re: add panel won't work till new login

Created a new user; same issue. Tried it on another computer; same thing.
Thanks.

On 04/12/2010 01:10 PM, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> works fine here, could you create a new user and test there if you can
> reproduce the issue? Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-04-14:

Can't reproduce this here, setting it back to new in case someone else can reproduce it and give us a set of steps in order to do so.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) on 2010-04-25

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote on 2010-04-25:

Just after creating a new panel (it should be displayed at the right, but there's none) Edit (138.4 KiB, image/png)

I can confirm the issue. It seems to be a screen refresh problem or something similar.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Log into GNOME.
2. Open any window and maximize it (this step is not mandatory, but a maximized window is useful to see the effects of this bug).
3. Right click on the top panel -> New panel.

Result: the maximized window is narrowed from the right edge. The desktop can be seen throughout the space of the right, where the newly created panel should be. Clicking in that space is like clicking in the desktop, so it seems to be no "real" panel. I need to logout and then log in again in order to see the new panel.

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote on 2010-04-25:

Pantallazo-1.png Edit (727.8 KiB, image/png)

After logout and then log in, I can see the newly created right panel.

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Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo) wrote on 2010-04-25:

Some more info:

1. The bug is fully reproducible all the times.
2. I'm using an nVidia card with the nvidia binary propietary driver.
3. The bug is reproducible with metacity and compiz.