> our automatic nightly yum update has loaded glibc 2.5-58. > Since this morning, some users on some machines sometimes (I can't say > It more clear) have no gnome panel. > Some of them can start it with gnome-panel, some do not. > For me it seems like a memory fault, something like no free alloc or > something. It never happend befor the glibc update.
Same here. We have SL 5.5. Not sure if it is a pattern, but all machines I have seen having the problem are 32-bit, the 64-bit ones seem Ok for now. I am including below the contents of an .xsession-errors file. Miguel A. Lerma -- Miguel A. Lerma Math Comp Sys Admin Department of Mathematics <[email protected]> Northwestern University <http://www.math.northwestern.edu/~mlerma/> 2033 Sheridan Road 847-491-8020 (w) Evanston, IL 60208-2730 847-491-8906 (f) ----------------------------------------------------------- /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "mlerma" localuser:mlerma being added to access control list No profile for user 'mlerma' found Launching a SCIM daemon with Socket FrontEnd... Loading simple Config module ... Creating backend ... SESSION_MANAGER=local/cantor.math.northwestern.edu:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2955 Reading pinyin phrase lib failed *** glibc detected *** gnome-panel: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x086c5a00 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0xb3b6c5] /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x59)[0xb3bb09] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free+0x31)[0x2b5d481] /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0x5d66a6] /lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_object_unref+0x16e)[0x2bfa1ee] /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0(bonobo_object_unref+0x1e7)[0x5d0937] /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0x5d672f] /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0[0x5c87a9] /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4(_ORBIT_skel_small_Bonobo_GenericFactory_createObject+0x21)[0x19f1d1] /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_c_stub_invoke+0x120)[0x145820] /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4(Bonobo_GenericFactory_createObject+0x73)[0x1a0d93] /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4(bonobo_activation_activate_shlib_server+0x263)[0x1a2e53] /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4[0x1a37ce] /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4[0x1a38fa] /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0x137791] /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_invoke_async+0x98)[0x131538] /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_connection_handle_input+0x3b6)[0x134ab6] /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0x15254d] /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0x15542e] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x182)[0x2b561a2] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x2b59196] /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1b7)[0x2b59557] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb4)[0x2f77c54] gnome-panel(main+0x1ac)[0x805fb5c] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xae7e9c] gnome-panel[0x805ef61] [...]
