Bug#583574: gnome-panel regularly produces 100% CPU load

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 14:08 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer a
écrit :
> Since the 2.30.x version of gnome-panel it happens quite often,
> that it starts using the CPU to 100%, and never stops doing so.
> 
> Killing it solves the issue (and a new one is spawned).
> 
> If you give me any hints how to do so,.. I'll happily try to
> trace this down a little bit better.

Please install gnome-panel-dbg and gnome-applets-dbg. Then, when the bug
happens, you can connect a gdb instance to the running gnome-panel
process:

gdb /usr/bin/gnome-panel $(pidof gnome-panel)
[…]
thread apply all bt full

The backtrace of the process during the livelock should help us
understand.

Cheers,
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