xfce4-panel should be upgraded to 4.18.6 if glib 2.80 is used

[Gaël Bonithon]

Hi, I'm Gaël Bonithon from Xfce, I'm the maintainer of xfce4-panel.

It appears that you updated glib to 2.80 on Ubuntu 24.04, but left xfce4-panel at 4.18.4. However, a patch released in xfce4-panel 4.18.6 is required when using glib 2.80:

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/commit/87d0bb94602021921cdb2692837714a24be7623a

Without it, xfce4-panel and wrapper-2.0 crash on exit (SIGABRT), with this type of log:

GLib-GObject:ERROR:../../../gobject/gtypemodule.c:119:g_type_module_finalize: assertion failed: (module->type_infos == NULL)
Bail out! GLib-GObject:ERROR:../../../gobject/gtypemodule.c:119:g_type_module_finalize: assertion failed: (module->type_infos == NULL)

See also https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=17446

So please upgrade xfce4-panel to 4.18.6. Thanks!

[Fane (i96usa)]

There is a separate user reported bug for this.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-panel/+bug/2054919

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans Hinterseer (hansihin)]

as i already said in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-panel/+bug/2054919/comments/9 can someone please add the updated version to the repositories, so package managers can update the panel? thank you.

[Christoph (maggiv8)]

Agree with Hans. Compiling the sources of xfce4-panel 4.18.6 (or higher) manually is a temporary workaround.