Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 15:59:29 -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: <1241985569.88553.36.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20090510151756.73A1A1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090510151756.73A1A1CC0B@ptavv.es.net>
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--=-ls1LSIuqpO0Xf8wPF/C9 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 08:17 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:50:12 -0400 > >=20 > > 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 use startx, > > > > > > > > > not gdm. > > > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > > > 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 sec= ond or so. > > > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > > > I get no core files and see nothing on the console that w= ould indicate > > > > > > > > > what might be happening, but it makes the system pretty u= nusable. 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 t= hat did not > > > > > > > > > help. Would .local or some other directory possibly help? > > > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > > > Any idea of where to look? How to try to get an indicatio= n of the > > > > > > > > > problem?=20 > > > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > > > Follow the instructions at > > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to build gno= me-panel and > > > > > > > > gconf2 (at least) with debugging symbols, then hopefully yo= u'll be able > > > > > > > > to get a backtrace from gnome-panel. All the symptoms poin= t 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= debug, > > > > > > > but maybe this will help someone more familiar with the code. > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > Does this key exist: > > > > > >=20 > > > > > > /apps/panel/applets/12t1062698483ut637949u1001p864r1504910582k3= 217026572/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? > >=20 > > You can try to reinstall gnome-panel. >=20 > No luck. >=20 > 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=3D581880=20 >=20 > Thanks for our help, but this does not look to be FreeBSD specific. This should now be fixed in ports. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-ls1LSIuqpO0Xf8wPF/C9 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkoHMiAACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4cWwACfce21I9OCRVAu+LGEEgfv3frS J1UAnjCgnCJ+KscHXaZAfFK3/aud8u8P =ci+D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ls1LSIuqpO0Xf8wPF/C9--
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