[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 Title: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/482690/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I'm seeing this regularly in Maverick. Linux kernel 2.6.35-23-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 17 22:14:33 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I am also a subscriber to several similar bugs, so I thought I would give Jeremy's test (Bug #491280) a shot. I followed the KernelMainline Builds directions and installed; linux-headers-2.6.34-999_2.6.34-999.201004241005_all.deb linux-headers-2.6.34-999-generic_2.6.34-999.201004241005_i386.deb linux-image-2.6.34-999-generic_2.6.34-999.201004241005_i386.deb As expected my Nvidia drivers would not work with this upstream kernel. The system booted just fine for me. All 5 of my Weather Report Apps were functional. Since this is an intermittent problem I tried my proven method of making it fail. I opened a terminal window and pounded out 25 pkill gnome-panel commands and 25 killall gnome-panel commands. The panels refreshed flawlessly every time. I rebooted my system - again no problem. I repeated the 2525 terminal commands and again the panels refreshed flawlessly. I have never been able to perform more than 7 of the pkill or killall commands without a panel failure much less one hundred times in a row. I then uninstalled the Mainline Kernels and rebooted. It failed on the first reboot. The second reboot succeeded. After opening a terminal window and running the pkill gnome-panel again it failed on the fourth retry. This next kernel may fix this bug and I suspect a few others. -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I would like to contribute a backtrace, but how do I run a gdb backtrace on gnome-panel when it only fails when rebooting or after killing the process? I have found several Ubuntu users with the same issue in other bug reports. They expressed that they were also unable to run a backtrace on gnome-panel under similar (or identical) circumstances. Apparently we have all followed the wiki procedure for already running programs , only to find that we cannot reproduce the failure without killing the gdb trace program too!!! Step 5 in already running programs illustrates the issue, because gnome-panel doesn't hang or crash at or after this point. Either the gnome-panel is already up and working or it is locked-up. If the trace could be started after boot and before the gnome-panel initializes, that may work, but HOW? If pkill gnome-panel or killall gnome-panel could be run in another terminal without terminating gdb, I think that would produce a very useful trace. Again, HOW?? I can run a backtrace after a successful initialization of gnome-panel or after a failed initialization, but I cannot catch the actual failure in progress. Thank you... -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I just saw this on a machine with 9.10 I installed for someone, as well. Two weather applets = gnome-panel sometimes empty after login. Removed the panels = No problems any more. -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I'm affected by the same bug. I usually solve in this way: - Kill the gnome-panel on (Ctrl-Alt-F1) terminal - return to desktop (Alt-F7) - click where the log-out icon should be on the panel (the panel is completely empty but the icons on it works) - I log-out - I log-in again. This time the panel is fully working. -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
Thanks nitto! My bug may be slightly different however. I just tried your solution in #11 and had fairly good success. I hammered my test machine with over twenty re-starts to get four failures. When I found the unresponsive panels I tried using the #11 method. I had good results 2 out of 4 times. Only twice did I fail to get active panels on the first re-login using that #11 method. A second execution of #11 worked well in those two instances. It's still not a fix for me, but it seems to be a very good alternative. -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I have a similar (identical?) problem with intermittent panel freezes at boot. I have found ten other bugs with nearly identical trouble. I have also discovered that I can recover my panel functionality with two steps that you may wish to try. This works 100% of the time on my machine. Access a terminal (Ctl-Alt-F1) and execute the following command; $ killall gnome-panel The second step is to return to the desktop (Ctl-Alt-F7) and open a Run application window (Alt-F2) and execute the command; $ gnome-panel --replace My panels and system are completely functional now (except for missing weather apps). Do not use a desktop terminal for the second command - the process will hang in a terminal. See Bug #466118 for more comments. Hope this works for you too... -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = New -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
I have the same problem after I added weather applets (3 currently). Like the others I can sometimes login without problems. I am happy to provide additional information if needed. Regards -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 482690] Re: gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet
My panel is getting corrupted a lot lately... Clock moving over to the left, unexpected changes of icon order on the top-right panel area, etc. However, last night, I added the weather applet. This morning the panel wouldn't load. I had to use a live cd to delete /home/username/.gconf/apps/panel before I could boot up and load the panel. Also, my firefox icon has been replace with a no-icon sign (crossed-out- red-circle). It launches firefox, but no firefox icon. Same goes in the applications interent menu. -- gnome-panel hangs on login with more than one weather applet https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482690 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
