Bug#414520: gnome-applets: cpufreq applet hangs other applet when clicked

[Nicolas Évrard]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.14.3-4
Severity: important

Hello,

The symptom of the bug are quite obvious, when I left click on any of 
the cpufreq applet, cpufreq and other applets hangs and does not 
update or anything. Killing cpufreq make the other panel back to their 
normal behavior.

I just tried to run cpufreq with suid root and then it does not fail. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.13        Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                     2.16.1-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data         2.14.3-4      Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme           2.14.2-2      GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel                2.14.3-5      launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa         0.10.10-4     GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.4-4      GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libapm1                    3.2.2-8.1     Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.4-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-3      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.14.0-5      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-13  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.2.4-4       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.0.2-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.71-3        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1             2.4.2-1.2     generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.1-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-4     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.6-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.14.3-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.16.0-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2+b1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.14.2-6    GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.10-4     GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0         0.10.10-3     Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-7      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.14.4-3      gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap4              1:1.6.0-1     Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libhal1                    0.5.8.1-7     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1                 0.4.3-1       sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.4-1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.14.3-5      library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.8-5      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18                  2.14.3-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-6     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.7-4       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.1-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:4.0.1-5     X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.1-4     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier10              2.2-5         X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                    2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-5   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.1-3     X Rendering Extension client libra

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
pn  deskbar-applet      <none>               (no description available)
ii  gnome-media         2.14.2-4             GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-app 2.12.0-5+b2          Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monito 2.14.5-1             Process viewer and system resource
ii  imagemagick         7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14 Image manipulation programs

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false