Bug#430403: gnome-panel: Crashes on every startup

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 24 juin 2007 à 12:30 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit :
> Well, I start gdm normally but gnome-panels are just white. Then
> BugBuddy starts to help me (argh) and the panels are kicked. I can send
> the Bug using BugBuddy or abort it - nothing changes. The panels try to
> start again and they crash again which is calling BugBuddy again... So
> it's kind of a circle. To report this bug I minimized BugBuddy to stop
> the system restarting panels and BugBuddy again and again.
> 
> Killing the panel manually and reloading it or anything else (I tried a
> few ways) did not help at all.
> 
> Maybe you can do anything with the backtrace below... i don't.

> #0  0xb777aaee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> #1  0xb7e9c865 in gnome_gtk_module_info_get () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0
> #2  <signal handler called>
> #3  0xb7775250 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> #4  0xb785702f in cairo_ft_font_options_substitute ()
>    from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2

This looks pretty much like #425058. If you have the occasion, you
should try with cairo 1.4.8 (currently in unstable).

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