Bug#370671: [Fwd: Re: Can you repro with XOrg 7?]

[Johan Walles]

One thing you could try (don't know if it will help) is to:
1. Start GNOME without the problematic panel applet enabled.
2. From a text console (try ctrl-alt-f1 for instance), start the
problematic applet inside of ltrace (apt-get install ltrace).  Send
the ltrace output to some file.

Point 2 might require some experimentation to find out what command
line parameters you need to use to actually be able to start your
applet from the command line like that.  It's definitely doable, I
unforturnatly don't know what's required though.  Check
/proc/thePIDofSomeOtherApplet/cmdline for hints, or ask somebody who
knows something about how panel applets work (I don't...).  Don't
forget that you might have to set your DISPLAY environment variable
before trying this from the console.

With a bit of luck, one of the last library calls in the ltrace log
file is the call that crashes X.

And if X crashes, this bug is probably in X, not in the GNOME panel.
But since the GNOME panel is what triggers it, the GNOME panel is
probably a good place to start looking.

  Have fun :-) //Johan

2006/6/10, Frederic Schutz <schutz at mathgen.ch>:
> Subject: Re: Can you repro with XOrg 7?
> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:58:55 +0200
> From: Frederic Schutz <schutz at mathgen.ch>
> To: 370671 at bugs.debian.org
>
> Hi Johan,
>
> I see the exact same problem that Alexander noticed, and for me it
> actually appeared just _after_ the upgrade to XOrg 7 ! My version is:
>
> ii  xorg           7.0.20         X.Org X Window System
>
> [...]
>
> Anything I can do to help tracking this ?