Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 21:30:34 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gonf2 upgrade breaks my system Message-ID: <20090510043034.CB60C1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 May 2009 23:41:19 EDT." <1241926879.88553.27.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:41:19 -0400 > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 20:30 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > > Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 01:10:30 -0400 > > > > > > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > 7.2-STABLE of April 22. Uniprocessor system (ThinkPad T43). > > > > > > > > All ports updated to cvs as of 7-May at 03:00:00 UTC. > > > > > > > > After updating gconf2 to 2.26.1, my Gnome startup fails. I use startx, > > > > not gdm. > > > > > > > > The failure is that gnome-panel starts and the top panel appears for a > > > > second or two, then vanishes. But the CPU gets very busy, and the > > > > display starts jumping up and down by 24 pixels every second or so. > > > > > > > > I get no core files and see nothing on the console that would indicate > > > > what might be happening, but it makes the system pretty unusable. The > > > > only way out that I could come up with was to switch back to vty0 and > > > > enter a ^C. > > > > > > > > I tried moving my .gnome2 directory out of the way, but that did not > > > > help. Would .local or some other directory possibly help? > > > > > > > > Any idea of where to look? How to try to get an indication of the > > > > problem? > > > > > > Follow the instructions at > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to build gnome-panel and > > > gconf2 (at least) with debugging symbols, then hopefully you'll be able > > > to get a backtrace from gnome-panel. All the symptoms point to a crash, > > > but I cannot reproduce. > > > > Yes, gnome-panel crashes when I upgrade gconf2 to 2.26.1. > > > > Looks to me like I will need to build a bunch more stuff with debug, > > but maybe this will help someone more familiar with the code. > > Does this key exist: > > /apps/panel/applets/12t1062698483ut637949u1001p864r1504910582k3217026572/locked > Nope. Should it? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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