awn-manager crashes if gnome-panel is not installed

Do you have librsvg2-bin installed?

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You need gnome-panel installed...which should be a dependency.

I should note that this dependency has been removed as of 0.2.4, but no updated packages have hit the official Ubuntu repositories yet. The Awn Testing team maintains development builds for Gutsy and Hardy in their PPA:

http://wiki.awn-project.org/DistributionGuides#Testing_Package_Archive

Marking as "Fix Released" as Intrepid has 0.2.6.

Attaching the debdiff from the version currently in Hardy to the proposed one.

Candidate package uploaded to hardy-proposed. Waiting for motu-sru to decide wheter this is important enough to be SRU'ed or not...

ACK from motu-sru

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

The new version is unusable. It launch fine but crash on mouse over with this :

(avant-window-navigator:31413): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `AwnTitle'

(avant-window-navigator:31413): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

** (avant-window-navigator:31413): CRITICAL **: awn_title_show: assertion `AWN_IS_TITLE (title)' failed

And with the previous version this didn't happen? That's really strange as this revision doesn't introduces any code change.

Could it be that the version of gnome-panel it pulls in is not compatible in some way and is causing this issue?

For the record the related bug apparently caused by this update is bug #245448.

Its buggered here as well. downgrading navigator/manager/libawn0 is the temp. work around. The updated version just locks up after initial load on my system.

Marking bug #245448 and it's duplicates (which all refer to the error about which Julien informed) as a duplicate of this bug.

I spoke together with gilir with an upstream developer, and we found out that OpenSolaris has/had the same issue, see bug #157615.

Siegfried, unless I misunderstand, you are quite wrong. This bug was about an awn-manager crash which required gnome-panel to be installed. A fix (an added dependency) was put in -proposed, which caused the bugs you altered, but fixed this one. The FIX of this bug CAUSED the others, however this bug is COMPLETELY different the others. They are chronologically related but that does not make them duplicates.

Uhm... I've just asked in #ubuntu-bugs and they told me there that, like I though, while the problem is only in hardy-proposed it should be handled in the SRU bug. Although now that I think about it I have to agree with you that as the problem is not caused directly by the SRU but just by rebuilding the version which is currently in hardy, it may well be a bug for itself :).

Anyway, the important thing is not what the bug number is, but to fix the actual issue. Any idea?

Siegfried,

It _might_ be useful to read https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn/+bug/245448/comments/6 in https://bugs.launchpad.net/awn/+bug/245448 by Mark Lee.

That might resolve the issue. If it does resolve it then I guess you can just chalk it up to some change in the Ubuntu build process/environment that begain exposing the issue.

I've just uploaded a new revision which should fix the problem, using the solution proposed by Mark Lee on bug #245448. I uploaded it to my PPA first, and Julien (on IRC) and yakirari confirmed that it works (thanks!).

I'm attaching a debdiff against avant-window-navigator_0.2.1-0ubuntu2.1 (the version which is currently in hardy-proposed).

Looks sane to me...

ACK

Siegfried, it seems it should be fixed in Intrepid too (bug #245448). Mind have a look at it?

Afaiu, that bug is about the (old) version in hardy-proposed only. The version in Intrepid already has the fix.

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I'm able to reproduce the crash, this is fixed after installing gnome-panel.

Copied to hardy-updates.