#573259 gnome-panel - dies on dbus restart

Package:
gnome-panel
Source:
gnome-panel
Description:
traditional panel, used in GNOME Flashback
Submitter:
Bastian Blank
Date:
2010-07-08 08:24:03 UTC
Severity:
important
#573259#5
Date:
2010-03-10 07:49:05 UTC
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gnome-panel and with other parts the complete Gnome desktop dies after a
dbus restart. dbus is restarted in its own upgrade routine, so this is
no exceptional state.

Bastian
#573259#10
Date:
2010-03-10 08:14:36 UTC
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Le mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 08:49 +0100, Bastian Blank a écrit :

Yes, libdbus is a piece of sh*te that doesn’t support upgrades. News@11.

AFAICT gnome-panel isn’t among the applications that just die, though.
Do you have any specific applets started? One of them could be the one
to make it quit.

Cheers,
#573259#15
Date:
2010-03-28 03:47:25 UTC
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Hi,

 I have seen this happen a couple of times, but every time
 gnome-panel has restarted on its own, so, while annyoing, I
 don't think this is causing data loss, is it?

 I have:

    timetracker
    notification area
    pidgin
    volume
    pulseaudio
    workrave
    zim
    CPU frequency scaling monitor
    clock-weather combo
    workspace switcher

 Marcelo
#573259#20
Date:
2010-04-01 03:42:59 UTC
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 On the other hand, the other day gconf died on me during an
 upgrade.  After that Nautilus kept complaining about not being
 able to contact the configuration service and not being able to
 do a number of things (mounting a USB stick among others).

 Related?

 Marcelo
#573259#23
Date:
2010-03-28 03:47:25 UTC
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Hi,

 I have seen this happen a couple of times, but every time
 gnome-panel has restarted on its own, so, while annyoing, I
 don't think this is causing data loss, is it?

 I have:

    timetracker
    notification area
    pidgin
    volume
    pulseaudio
    workrave
    zim
    CPU frequency scaling monitor
    clock-weather combo
    workspace switcher

 Marcelo
#573259#26
Date:
2010-04-01 03:42:59 UTC
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To:
 On the other hand, the other day gconf died on me during an
 upgrade.  After that Nautilus kept complaining about not being
 able to contact the configuration service and not being able to
 do a number of things (mounting a USB stick among others).

 Related?

 Marcelo
#573259#31
Date:
2010-05-08 06:57:24 UTC
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Hi,
   after an upgrade i have a problem with gnome-panel. When i start gnome,
 I do not see any panel on the screen.
If i kill (with kill -9) then gnome-panel process, my panel appears.

Sometimes i don't see files and directory in my Desktop folder.

Related?

 Alessio.
#573259#36
Date:
2010-05-08 07:27:47 UTC
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I forgot to indicate the gnome panel version:

ii gnome-panel          2.30.0-1
ii gnome-panel-data   2.30.0-1

Alessio
#573259#43
Date:
2010-07-08 08:21:39 UTC
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From a quick skim through the source code, in recent gnome-panels the most
likely culprit seems to be the clock applet, which uses the system bus to
look for location changes from NetworkManager, and set the system clock using
some sort of privileged backend. As a result, it opens a shared connection to
the system bus, which has the default "exit on disconnect" behaviour.

    Simon