Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:50:12 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gonf2 upgrade breaks my system Message-ID: <1241931012.88553.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20090510044434.A09651CC0B@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090510044434.A09651CC0B@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-m0aznTzyCrVgIwFdFr8K Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:44 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:33:06 -0400 > >=20 > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:30 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > > > Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:41:19 -0400 > > > >=20 > > > > 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 > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > > > 7.2-STABLE of April 22. Uniprocessor system (ThinkPad T43). > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > All ports updated to cvs as of 7-May at 03:00:00 UTC. > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > After updating gconf2 to 2.26.1, my Gnome startup fails. I us= e startx, > > > > > > > not gdm. > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > The failure is that gnome-panel starts and the top panel appe= ars 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. > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > I get no core files and see nothing on the console that would= indicate > > > > > > > what might be happening, but it makes the system pretty unusa= ble. The > > > > > > > only way out that I could come up with was to switch back to = vty0 and > > > > > > > enter a ^C. > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > I tried moving my .gnome2 directory out of the way, but that = did not > > > > > > > help. Would .local or some other directory possibly help? > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > Any idea of where to look? How to try to get an indication of= the > > > > > > > problem?=20 > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > Follow the instructions at > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to build gnome-p= anel 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. > > > > >=20 > > > > > Yes, gnome-panel crashes when I upgrade gconf2 to 2.26.1. > > > > >=20 > > > > > Looks to me like I will need to build a bunch more stuff with deb= ug, > > > > > but maybe this will help someone more familiar with the code. > > > >=20 > > > > Does this key exist: > > > >=20 > > > > /apps/panel/applets/12t1062698483ut637949u1001p864r1504910582k32170= 26572/locked > > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Nope. Should it? > >=20 > > Yes. Each applet should have a locked key. >=20 > So, should I re-install gnome-applets? Or does the schema come from > somewhere else? You can try to reinstall gnome-panel. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-m0aznTzyCrVgIwFdFr8K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkoGXQMACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4druACeOj3apZK3R1Ymzf0v7Z5SQ6XI bpIAoKlxicOKMvq8TqO0ILWYl49GZPmy =HPYo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-m0aznTzyCrVgIwFdFr8K--
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