[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#496277: Bug#496277: Bug#496277: xfce4-menu-plugin segfaults, causing xfce-panel to exit on startup

[Alexander Toresson]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Matsche <matsche at play-pla.net> wrote:
> OK, this is my last try to replay to this bug... :/
> the behavior of the groups is not understandable for me.
>
>
> Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On dim, 2008-08-24 at 16:03 +1000, Ian MacKinnell wrote:
>>> If I open the desktop menu by right-clicking on the desktop
>>> background, the menu works OK unless I pass over "Graphics" or
>>> "Games", at which point the menu instantly disappears instead of
>>> displaying the
>>> submenu, and all my desktop icons disappear, and I have to press
>>> Alt-F2 to get
>>> a prompt to run xfce-setting-show, go to Desktop Preferences and
>>> switch back on "Allow XFCE to manage the desktop". In other words,
>>> the menu
>>> is crashing AND causing a configuration change on the XFCE desktop.
>>
>> The menu crashes and makes xfdesktop crashes. I guess you have dirty
>> menu entries, or something like that. Could you show us what entries you
>> have in this categories?
>
> I think it depends on some xml-svg-stuff.
> In my case, the panel crashes with error message
>
> (xfce4-menu-plugin:10967): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x4000003
> unexpectedly destroyed
> The program 'xfce4-menu-plugin' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
>  (Details: serial 154 error_code 3 request_code 18 minor_code 0)
>  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> function.)
> .
>
> After some timespending dumpstering i found an launcher entry with:
>
> [Entry 0]
> Name=ScummVM
> Exec=/usr/games/scummvm
> Terminal=false
> StartupNotify=false
> Comment=Interpreter for several adventure games
> Icon=scummvm.svg
>
> after commenting (#) the icon line it works.
>
>>> All this happened as a result of a daily dist-upgrade on Friday night
>>> (22 Aug) AEST.
>>
>> Could you show use what got upgraded?
>>
> The packages are:
>
> libxml2_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
> python2.5_2.5.2-6+lenny1_i386.deb
> libxml2-dev_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
> python2.5-minimal_2.5.2-6+lenny1_i386.deb
> libxml2-utils_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
> python-libxml2_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
> openvpn_2.1~rc9-3_i386.deb
>
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Cheers,
>  matsche
>
>
>
>
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Could this be caused by http://bugs.debian.org/496125 , perhaps? You
could try downgrading libxml2 and libxml2-dev again, or upgrading to
the new -3 (which unfortunately doesn't seem to have reached lenny
yet).

// Alexander