Dialog that notifies of an applets death doesn't close properly

[Nathan Howell]

Here's a way I've been able to reproduce this one.

- Add the Disk Mounter applet to the panel.
- Right click on the applet. Choose Preferences.
- Close the Preferences dialog (via Close)
- Remove the applet from the panel. The following dialog will appear:

The "Disk Mounter" applet appears to have died unexpectedly.

Do you want to reload this applet?

(If you choose not to reload it at this time you can always add it by right
clicking on the panel and clicking on the "Add to Panel" submenu)

- Neither the No or Yes button will close the dialog or reload the applet.

I've seen this with another applet as well, but can't remember now which it was,
possibly the gnome-pilot applet.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you paste the result of "/usr/bin/gdmflexiserver -a -c QUERY_LOGOUT_ACTION" ?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

oups, sorry, comments on the wrong bug report.

applets doesn't crash here. any chance to backtrace them ?

basically:
- $ apt-get install gdb
- "$ gdb /usr/lib/gnome-applets/drivemount_applet2" in a gnome-terminal
(gdb) r
- the procedure you describe before
- "bt" in the gnome-terminal with gdb after the crash

[Nathan Howell (neh)]

No real info came from that. A lot of (no debugging symbols found) messages,
program exited normally, and no stack from the bt.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You get "The "Disk Mounter" applet appears to have died unexpectedly." and the
program exits normally ? That's weird ...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

To be clear. You've run the applet from a gnome-terminal in gdb, then add it to
the panel, repeted the procedure and you don't get a crash anymore ? So the bug
is fixed ?

[Nathan Howell (neh)]

When I ran the applet in gdb, the applet appeared to exit normally, but I still
got the error dialog as described. I'm not sure the applet was ever crashing, it
seemed to be that the panel was confused. I've just tried it again, and can't
get that dialog to come up in similar situations any more.

I guess there were/are two bugs here:

1. The panel mistakenly thinking an applet had crashed.
2. The dialog notifying the user of an applet crash won't close when either
button on it is pressed.

The second bug may still be there, but I haven't been able to recreate the first
one in order to find out.

[Vincent Untz (vuntz)]

Nathan: were you using gnome-panel 2.8.0 or a previous release? There was a
similar bug reported on b.g.o, and it has been fixed.

> - Neither the No or Yes button will close the dialog or reload the applet.

Was the panel freezed? Or could you still use it?

[Nathan Howell (neh)]

The panel was fine. I could close the dialog with the close button (X) and keep
on going. I don't know exactly which version of gnome-panel it was, at least
2.8.0, IIRC. It's whatever was being installed when I reported the bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> The panel was fine. I could close the dialog with the close button (X) and keep
> on going. I don't know exactly which version of gnome-panel it was, at least
> 2.8.0, IIRC. It's whatever was being installed when I reported the bug.

The current package was 2.8.0 in the moment of the bug report.
BTW do you still have the problem (you are using the past in this comment ...)

[Nathan Howell (neh)]

Comment #6 describes the current behaviour.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

seems to be fixed, I'm closing it. Feel free to reopen it that happens again.