Bug#499081: More information

[Tim Richardson]

1) When this happened just now, I had a terminal window open, which I
can ctrl-tab to
2) I tried iceweasel & 
in the terminal window. The process launches, but no windows appears
3) evolution --force-shutdown
followed by
evolution &
does the same thing. The process launches, no interesting console
messages, but no windows.
4) applications added to the panel (eg Tomboy, sysmonitor, power
information work)
5) menus and the bottom panel with tiles for open windows don't work

So, I attached gdb to gnome-panel and did a bt
(invoked as gdb gnome-panel 3826)
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7fa5424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb75d6093 in __read_nocancel () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2  0xb722386e in esd_sample_play () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
#3  0xb7e7e814 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0
#4  0x00000010 in ?? ()
#5  0x00000004 in ?? ()
#6  0xbfabfae8 in ?? ()
#7  0xb7e89578 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0
#8  0x092f11b0 in ?? ()
#9  0x08ffa5b8 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfabfac8 in ?? ()
#11 0xb7e7e96f in gnome_triggers_vdo () from /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0
Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC

6) after stopping gdm, the following processes were still active for my
user, TTY ?
gconfd-2
Pulseaudio
Gconf-helper
Gnome-panel
Bonobo-activation-server
Gnome-terminal
Gnome-pty-helper

Killing bonobo-activation-server did not allow me to login again.

However, killing pulseaudio did fix it.

So, perhaps not a gnome-panel bug. 


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Tim Richardson, Corporate Outcomes Pty Ltd
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