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xfce4-panel package

XFCE 4.8 panel fails to load old config and crashes

Bug #760939 reported by Denis Rut'kov
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfce4-panel

The XFCE panel migrating assistant does not change xfce-applications.menu file location in /home/user/.config/xfce4 files, when converting old config.

This leads to panel crashing right after trying to open the menu.

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lp:debian/xfce4-panel
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Denis Rut'kov (dendron2000) wrote :

This is xsession output:

garcon-Message: Could not load menu file data from file:///etc/xdg/xubuntu/menus/xfce-applications.menu: Error opening file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libapplicationsmenu.so(+0x4e4d)[0xed1e4d]
00ecd000-00ed9000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 140898 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libapplicationsmenu.so
00ed9000-00eda000 ---p 0000c000 08:01 140898 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libapplicationsmenu.so
00eda000-00edb000 r--p 0000c000 08:01 140898 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libapplicationsmenu.so
00edb000-00edc000 rw-p 0000d000 08:01 140898 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libapplicationsmenu.so

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Could you provide your old panel config please? IIRC, it's not deleted when it's migrated, so it should still be available. Without that, I can't reproduce. Thanks.

Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → Low
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Denis Rut'kov (dendron2000) wrote :
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Denis Rut'kov (dendron2000) wrote :
Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Denis Rut'kov (dendron2000) wrote :

Sorry it took so long. It'd be great if Xubuntu started using environment variables in config files to avoid issues like this.

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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

> use_default_menu=false
> menu_file=/etc/xdg/xubuntu/menus/xfce-applications.menu

If you use this config on lucid (10.04) or later, you don't have any menu because this file doesn't exist anymore... So I don't expect the migration to fix that.

Anyway, there's a bug in xfce4-panel that doesn't check if the menu file exist before passing it to garcon.

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xfce4-panel - 4.8.6-0ubuntu1

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xfce4-panel (4.8.6-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * Upload pkg-xfce trunk (r6047) to oneiric, remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - debian/patches:
      + xubuntu_support-multiple-vendor-default-configs.patch: search for
        the default.xml default config in XDG_CONFIG_DIRS as well, and do
        not display the chooser dialog in this case. lp: #747137
      + series: refreshed.

xfce4-panel (4.8.6-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix segfault with not-existing menu. lp: #760939
    - Fix typo in fr.po for the directory menu plugin. lp: #846386
  * debian/xfce4-panel.1: fix path to upstream docs. Closes: #638204
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:49:42 +0200

Changed in xfce4-panel (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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