I've since upgraded to Jaunty on that partition so the version of gnome- power-manager is 2.23.0-0ubuntu12. The condition still exists. I did not get a crash this time because I waited for the long pauses to end before restarting.
This is how I reproduced the issue with the laptop (Compaq NC6120) plugged in: 1) Right-click on the top panel and select Add to Panel... 2) Select Brightness Applet, click +Add. 3) Click on the applet and try to move the slider up/down. The slider becomes unresponsive (doesn't move) for about 25 seconds, then after about 20 seconds more, the display will dim/brighten. If I click the slider again + or -, the whole desktop becomes unresponsive for about a minute. Then, the display slowly goes dim and the keyboard Fn keys don't work to make it brighter. Rebooting is the only way to restore brightness to the display. Restarting X did not work. I can provide more data, but possibly this bug only exists for this laptop. The easy solution is -- don't use that applet on it :-). -- gnome-brightness-applet crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/287884 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
