gnome-panel crashes when clock preference is set to 'internet time'

[anand]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel ; fiesty fawn herd4

Any user new or old

step to reproduce:
1) right click on main panel clock display.
2) go to preference
3) select display format to "internet time"
4) panel crashes and disappears.

The problem resolves when .gconf/apps/panel/applets/clock* is removed.

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additionally:
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New user (default) gnome panel completely disappears; however, in my old user account(modified gnome panel content and a starter), the gray band/stripe of the panel remain, but it is inactive and in background.

output of $] gnome-panel

anand@anand-laptop:~$ gnome-panel
*** glibc detected *** gnome-panel: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xbfba3964 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1bb)[0xb74fef3b]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x31)[0xb7736f91]
/usr/lib/gnome-panel/libclock-applet.so[0xb46eccf4]
/usr/lib/gnome-panel/libclock-applet.so[0xb46ed75e]
/usr/lib/gnome-panel/libclock-applet.so[0xb46f079f]
/usr/lib/libpanel-applet-2.so.0(panel_applet_marshal_BOOLEAN__STRING+0x5e)[0xb4731aee]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x12b)[0xb77a162b]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_closure_invoke_va_list+0x254)[0xb7dfc084]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_closure_invoke+0x1ec)[0xb7dfc2ec]
/usr/lib/libpanel-applet-2.so.0[0xb4730796]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID+0x49)[0xb77ae9c9]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x12b)[0xb77a162b]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0xb77b20f3]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x8c7)[0xb77b3617]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x29)[0xb77b37d9]
/usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0[0xb7ea340b]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(_ORBIT_skel_small_Bonobo_Control_setFrame+0x21)[0xb7dfeed1]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_c_stub_invoke+0x120)[0xb7831930]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(Bonobo_Control_setFrame+0x74)[0xb7e03d44]
/usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0(bonobo_control_frame_bind_to_control+0x12f)[0xb7ea0c4f]
/usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0(bonobo_widget_construct_control_from_objref+0x48)[0xb7ec4bd8]
/usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0(bonobo_widget_new_control_from_objref+0x58)[0xb7ec5378]
gnome-panel[0x8086389]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7dec9f1]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7decd2f]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0xb7823d31]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_invoke_async+0x98)[0xb781d838]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_connection_handle_input+0x3b6)[0xb7820db6]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0xb783e6ed]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0xb78415de]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x182)[0xb772fc42]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0xb7732c1f]
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x65)[0xb7733185]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(link_main_iteration+0x27)[0xb783ce57]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_recv_buffer_get+0x57)[0xb7820437]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_small_invoke_stub+0x11b)[0xb7824fab]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_small_invoke_stub_n+0x7e)[0xb78251ce]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_c_stub_invoke+0x182)[0xb7831992]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4(Bonobo_Unknown_queryInterface+0x73)[0xb7dbc4e3]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_moniker_util_qi_return+0x3f)[0xb7dedc4f]
/usr/lib/bonobo/monikers/libmoniker_std_2.so(bonobo_moniker_oaf_resolve+0x92)[0xb4752cc2]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7deb5f8]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x12b)[0xb77a162b]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_closure_invoke_va_list+0x254)[0xb7dfc084]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_closure_invoke+0x1ec)[0xb7dfc2ec]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7deb968]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7deac15]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(_ORBIT_skel_small_Bonobo_Moniker_resolve+0x28)[0xb7dfd838]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_c_stub_invoke+0x120)[0xb7831930]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(Bonobo_Moniker_resolve+0x79)[0xb7e08379]
/usr/lib/bonobo/monikers/libmoniker_std_2.so(bonobo_moniker_item_resolve+0x61)[0xb47528c1]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7deb5f8]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x12b)[0xb77a162b]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_closure_invoke_va_list+0x254)[0xb7dfc084]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_closure_invoke+0x1ec)[0xb7dfc2ec]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7deb968]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0xb7deac15]
/usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(_ORBIT_skel_small_Bonobo_Moniker_resolve+0x28)[0xb7dfd838]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0xb7831767]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_OAObject_invoke+0x35)[0xb78378d5]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_small_invoke_adaptor+0x53c)[0xb7824a1c]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0xb7835576]
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0xb7835c22]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-080c0000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 733294 /usr/bin/gnome-panel
080c0000-080c3000 rw-p 00077000 08:08 733294 /usr/bin/gnome-panel
080c3000-083fe000 rw-p 080c3000 00:00 0 [heap]
b4265000-b4270000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 492076 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b4270000-b4271000 rw-p 0000a000 08:08 492076 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b4271000-b4274000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 734968 /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0.0
b4274000-b4275000 rw-p 00003000 08:08 734968 /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0.0
b4275000-b4290000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 734853 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
b4290000-b4291000 rw-p 0001b000 08:08 734853 /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
b4291000-b42b5000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 734960 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0
b42b5000-b42b6000 rw-p 00024000 08:08 734960 /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3.0
b42b6000-b4331000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 734966 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3.2
b4331000-b4333000 rw-p 0007b000 08:08 734966 /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3.2
b4333000-b437e000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 735081 /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so
b437e000-b4382000 rw-p 0004b000 08:08 735081 /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so
b4382000-b43aa000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 735217 /usr/lib/libssl3.so
b43aa000-b43ac000 rw-p 00027000 08:08 735217 /usr/lib/libssl3.so
b43ac000-b43ce000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 735079 /usr/lib/libsmime3.so
b43ce000-b43d0000 rw-p 00022000 08:08 735079 /usr/lib/libsmime3.so
b43d0000-b443d000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 735075 /usr/lib/libnss3.so
b443d000-b4442000 rw-p 0006d000 08:08 735075 /usr/lib/libnss3.so
b4442000-b453d000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 733312 /usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so
b453d000-b4540000 rw-p 000fb000 08:08 733312 /usr/lib/libdb-4.4.so
b4540000-b456f000 r-xp 0000000Aborted (core dumped)

additional comments:
I had beryl on. The
I would appreciate if I can get a personal help on howto reset the panel clock preference.
As a suggestion, I think user would appreciate an option to resort to last working session configuration very much. or some way to undo last change.

In general, I am overall impressed with ubuntu after being long time user of RedHat/fedora. Fiesty-Fawn herd4 was my entry point to Ubuntu.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

To reset the preference run gconf-editor and search for key with "internet" to their value and reset the panel you listed