Bug#646687: gnome-panel: freezes after trying to resize a window

[Stéphane Glondu]

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I am using GNOME 3 with awesome, via a custom
~/.config/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session

When I add something to the panel (alt + right click on it), a
seemingly resizable window pops up. When I try to resize it, it
doesn't work, and the whole graphical part of the window manager
freezes: I can no longer access the panel's menus, I can no longer
switch desktop using awesome's panel (but awesome's shortcuts still
work). When I "killall gnome-panel", it restarts and everything goes
back in place. Resizing windows from random applications (I tried
unison and gedit) works.

I can live with occasionally killing gnome-panel. However, a very
annoying thing is that, now, when I "killall gnome-panel" too much,
the whole session crashes with a "A something went wrong and you must
restart your session" message. Is there any way to disable this
"feature"?


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.2.1-1     
ii  gnome-menus                3.0.1-3     
ii  gnome-panel-data           3.0.2-1     
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.2.0-2     
ii  libc6                      2.13-21     
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.10.2-6.1  
ii  libcairo2                  1.10.2-6.1  
ii  libcamel-1.2-23            3.0.3-1     
ii  libdconf0                  0.7.5-3     
ii  libebook1.2-10             3.0.3-1     
ii  libecal1.2-8               3.0.3-1     
ii  libedataserver1.2-14       3.0.3-1     
ii  libedataserverui-3.0-0     3.0.3-1     
ii  libfontconfig1             2.8.0-3     
ii  libfreetype6               2.4.7-2     
ii  libgconf2-4                2.32.4-1    
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.24.0-1    
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.8-1    
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-0       3.0.2-2     
ii  libgnome-menu2             3.0.1-3     
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.0.12-2    
ii  libgweather-3-0            3.2.0-1     
ii  libical0                   0.44-3      
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.7-2   
ii  libnspr4-0d                4.8.9-1     
ii  libnss3-1d                 3.12.11-3   
ii  libpanel-applet-4-0        3.0.2-1     
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.29.4-2    
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.34.1-2    
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.0-2   
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.36.0-1    
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.7.8-1     
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.12-1      
ii  libtelepathy-glib0         0.16.0-1    
ii  libwnck-3-0                3.2.1-1     
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.4-2   
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.6-3   
ii  libxml2                    2.7.8.dfsg-5
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.3.2-2   
ii  python                     2.7.2-9     
ii  python-gconf               2.28.1-3    

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte               <none>   
ii  evolution-data-server  3.0.3-1  
ii  gnome-applets          <none>   
ii  gnome-control-center   1:3.0.2-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme       3.2.1.2-1
ii  gnome-session          3.0.2-3  
ii  gvfs                   1.8.2-2  

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  epiphany-browser                      3.0.4-1     
ii  evolution                             3.0.3-2     
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.0.1-1     
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user-guide]  3.2.1-1     
ii  nautilus                              3.0.2-4     
ii  yelp                                  3.2.1+dfsg-1

-- no debconf information