Bugzilla – Bug 106136
gnome-panel terminated on 1st login after install
Last modified: 2005-09-01 17:52:19 UTC
I just finished installation and tried to login, a "GNOME DESKTOP" splash screen appears for a few seconds (hd activity), then: an error dialog pops up (actually, there are four stacked dialog windows?!?) and says "Die Anwendung >>gnome-panel<< wurde unerwartet beendet" (German localization, roughly translated: "Application 'gnome-panel' terminated unexpectedly"). A button invites me to inform the developers (no network, did not work). I closed all windows and the system fell back to the green "SUSE LINUX 10.0" login screen. I tried again... same result. Are there any log files to be sent? Where can I find them?
.xsession-errors may have something, you should still be able to get a trace with gdb by attaching to the panel process from a console.
Ok, I started the system to try out the new tricks... Now, 'gnome-session' died with a memory access error. (It was easy to identify the process, because the error message window told the PID.) I should have stayed with KDE... :-/ I kept trying to start GNOME and finally (after three attempts) got a 'Beagle' window saying that some stuff is not running... Clicking thru half a dozen other error windows leads to the green SUSE LINUX 10.0 login screen again. Next attempt after full reboot - Microsoft can not be *that* wrong. ;-) After reboot: 'resapplet', 'gnome-volume-manager', and (again) 'gnome-session' opened error windows. I will attach gdb logs (memory access error, gnome-session), rpm version info and the file .xsession-errors to this report in a couple of minutes. The initial symptom as described in my first description seems to have disappeared, therefore I can not claim that this is still the same problem...
Created attachment 47069 [details] "/home/ostoyke/.xsession-errors" after the memory access error of gnome-session
Created attachment 47070 [details] Log of short trace retrieving session with gdb attached to gnome-session
Created attachment 47071 [details] List of installed Gtk RPM version information... (packages starting with gtk*)
Created attachment 47072 [details] List of GNOME RPM version information (packages matching gnome*)
I think this should be fixed with GTK 2.8.0, not sure, since I can't replicate it at all, everything works great for me. GTK 2.8.0 should be in beta 3, so please when you have a chance, update to that GTK version and see if things get better.
Its crashing in the cursor theme setting code like it has a NULL value though. What value is /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager X_MOUSE_CURSOR set to?
It is line 26 in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager: X_MOUSE_CURSOR="crystalwhite"
Forgot to set the "provides the needed information" flag.
Just installed BETA3 and ran into the same problem as in report #1: gnome-panel after 1st boot exited and left an error window... This time, I jumped into gdb and made a trace file. X_MOUSE_CURSOR has not changed. Attachments follow in a couple of minutes... BTW: Changed "Found in Version" from Beta 2 to Beta 3...
Created attachment 47767 [details] Backtrace from gdb attached to 'gnome-panel'
Created attachment 47768 [details] Output from 'ps -ef' for gnome-panel (after error)
Created attachment 47769 [details] Installed RPMs (matching gtk*)
Created attachment 47770 [details] Installed RPMs (matching gnome*)
In /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager can you try setting X_MOUSE_CURSOR_THEME to industrial? Also, have changed the per desktop mouse cursor theme on the desktop?
Found bug upstream, its fixed in gtk 2.8.3.
You found the bug, are you still interested in these tests and their results? If "Yes": (In reply to comment #16) > In /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager can you try setting X_MOUSE_CURSOR_THEME to > industrial? /etc/sysconfig/windowsmanager does not contain such a variable, do you mean a new variable or just "X_MOUSE_CURSOR"? > Also, have changed the per desktop mouse cursor theme on the desktop? I have never reached that far, that I could actually do something with the desktop. After issuing some error windows, I found myself in front of the green login screen again.
gtk-2.8.3 submitted for RC1.