From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 10 15:17:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8FF1065670 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 15:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from mailgw.es.net (mail1.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:201:1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C948FC0A for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 15:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:910::29]) by mailgw.es.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4AFHuG5027449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 10 May 2009 08:17:56 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 73A1A1CC0B; Sun, 10 May 2009 08:17:56 -0700 (PDT) To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 2009 00:50:12 EDT." <1241931012.88553.31.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 08:17:56 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20090510151756.73A1A1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gonf2 upgrade breaks my system X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 15:17:57 -0000 > From: Joe Marcus Clarke > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:50:12 -0400 > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:44 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke > > > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:33:06 -0400 > > > > > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:30 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > > Yes. Each applet should have a locked key. > > > > So, should I re-install gnome-applets? Or does the schema come from > > somewhere else? > > You can try to reinstall gnome-panel. No luck. This seems to be a known problem in gconf2-2.26. It was first reported to bugzilla on May 5 and can be seen at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581880 Thanks for our help, but this does not look to be FreeBSD specific. -- 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