gnome-panel crashed when adding xpenguins applet

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Steps to reproduce:

  1. install xpenguins-applet

  sudo aptitude install xpenguins-applet

  2. add the applet to a panel
  3. gnome-panel crashes down and doesn't come back up

A buggy applet is not gnome-panel's fault, but it shouldn't bring it down.
How do I remove the applet now?
Where do the panel-configurations get saved anyway? So I can reset them?

Anyways, that is why I want to kept gnome-panel as the main problematic package.

Installing the wrong applet destroys your desktop.
 - The average user would have to do a reinstall.
 - The little-bit more experienced user might go to a terminal and add another user and move all his files and selective configs
 - The gnome wizard knows how to reset the panel

If you are a gnome wizard please let me know how to reset the panel .. ;-)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 12 23:06:55 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 2.17.92-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id 117f000101000117373630100000068380000 --screen 0
ProcCwd: /home/ralf
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
StacktraceTop:
 ORBit_free_T () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Uname: Linux Freezer 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner video

[Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen)]

Found a way to get a working system back:

  - go a terminal (control+alt+f1)
  - deinstall xpenguins-applet
  - launch back in

Now gnome-panel will ask if you want to remove the applet!

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:CORBA_exception_free_T (ev=0xbff7f1c8) at corba-env.c:11
CORBA_exception_free (ev=0xbff7f1c8) at corba-env.c:29
CORBA_exception_set (ev=0xbff7f1c8,
CORBA_exception_set_system (ev=0xbff7f1c8,

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug, the crash looks similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349313 upstream

[Shivinder Singh (shivinder)]

Same case here. I added the xpenguins gnome applet, and it worked fine. But later when I logged off and tried to log back in, I got a blank screen.