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gnome-panel package

gnome-panel freezes randomly if restarted

Bug #148432 reported by Juho Vuori
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

If you run 'killall gnome-panel' the panel normally gets restartsed. Sometimes, though the restart happens as should, and a new gnome-panel process gets created, no new panel gets drawn on screen. The process just seems to get stuck on something. After entering this state, not much is doable. Running 'killall gnome-panel' starts a new process, but from this point on no new processes will ever draw the panel. This makes me guess, it could be a metacity bug or something alike, but I'm submitting this as gnome-panel bug as I don't know better.

Although this is quite random, it happens to me say once every ten restarts, so it should be reproduceable.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you use the desktop effects option?

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Juho Vuori (juho-vuori) wrote : Re: [Bug 148432] Re: gnome-panel freezes randomly if restarted

I'm running gutsy gibson, although I think I've had this on earlier
versions as well. I'm not using desktop effects.

Juho Vuori

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:10 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you use
> the desktop effects option?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht) wrote :

I had a similar problem in Hardy, but killing the panel again appears to fix the problem.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Please try to obtain a backtrace http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash of the hang and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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