awn-applet-activation crashed with SIGSEGV in cairo_set_operator()

StacktraceTop:set_background (shinyswitcher=0x89588a0) at shinyswitcherapplet.c:252
_waited (shinyswitcher=0x89588a0) at shinyswitcherapplet.c:1369
g_timeout_dispatch (source=0x8972100, callback=0, user_data=0x89588a0)
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x8930d78)
g_main_context_iterate (context=0x8930d78, block=1, dispatch=1, self=0x89073c8)

Confirmed, i have a 8.10 with the same error
I have x64 Linux 2.6.26-5-generic
Alpha 4 release

This is an applet-specific bug, reassigning to a more appropriate package.

Could you please install the Awn/Awn Extras packages from the Awn Testing PPA <http://wiki.awn-project.org/DistributionGuides#Testing_Package_Archive> and confirm whether the bug occurs in those packages?

https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu intrepid main

sudo apt-get install awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk

I have upgraded to 0.3.1 and am testing now

I'm confirming this bug on Intrepid

Niels: Awn/Awn Extras version?

Awn, the one in the official repository.

Could you please try the package(s) in my PPA, to see if it has been fixed in the stable branch?

https://launchpad.net/~malept/+archive

Nope, after activating and deactivating it a few times (without something happening in the dock), it crashed again and apport popped up. I could not send my information because it was not from an official repository.

Could you please try the packages in the Awn Testing PPA, to see if it has been fixed in trunk?

https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive

Still crashing (for me anyway) tried every AWN package I could find

Could someone experiencing the bug run awn from a terminal and copy and paste any terminal output (into this bug) when trying to start shinyswitcher?

Also of interest is the Window Managers in use.

Brion,

Thanks for the terminal output... it was actually close to what I thought.

A few additional questions:

Do you use a desktop background?

If you do use a desktop background are you using a compiz specific plugin to manage it?

If you are using a background what are the settings? specifically tiled, scaled, zoomed, centered etc.

If you are using a background is your desktop being managed by nautilus or some other application (what)?

Thanks,

Do you use a desktop background? Yes
... are you using a compiz specific plugin to manage it? No - gnome manages it
... what are the settings? zoom
... is your desktop being managed by nautilus or some other application (what)? I assume nautilus, but all I have for a desktop is a single gnome panel with only the clock applet in it, awn, and (since after the initial bug report) gnome-do. The desktop management was left to the Ubuntu/gnome defaults - I haven't replaced it explicitly.

Hope this helps.

I've put in some additional checks and added a few assertions (that will crash the applet if they happen but will give useful terminal output) as of revision 886 of trunk. Anyone building from source can test them now. Those using the awn-testing ppa will get the updated code on the next ppa update.

It's working for me now. thanks for your work.

Just for futur triage :
Will be fix when there is a 0.3.X version release.

I confirm this bug on my x86 WUBI-installed GNOME 8.10 beta with all the latest updates as of the time of this posting

Uploaded, thank you.

James

This bug was fixed in the package awn-extras-applets - 0.2.6-2ubuntu4

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awn-extras-applets (0.2.6-2ubuntu4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches
   - 11-volume-channel-missing.patch: from Debian, fix volume applet when
     current channel disappear. Thanks Jean-Michel Philippe for the patch.
   - 96_shinyswitcher_cairo_set_operator.patch : from upstream, fix
     cairo_set_operator() crash (LP: #256166).
   - 105_mimenu_missing_bookmark.patch: don't crash Main Menu applet if there is
     no bookmark.
   - 106_fbl_missing_bookmark.patch: don't crash file-browser-launcher applet
     if there is no bookmark.

 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:47:12 +0200