Bug 595560

This does not only happen on closing Yast Software Management, but also when starting it, while or after repositories are refreshed. This does not happen if all software repositories have been deleted beforehand, but it will block re-adding repositories: To reproduce it this way, delete all repos in the Software Repositories module. Then add a repo again. After the repository is shown in the list, click the OK button to exit the Software Repositories module. This leads to the error message.

*** Bug 596845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

A duplicate of bnc#596920.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 596920 ***

Got following as error:

 YaST got signal 11 at YCP file PackagesUI.ycp:273
/sbin/yast2: line 399: 9151 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS 

after installation while writing suse config script commence in Install/Remove software(Software Manager) application

Got following as error:

 YaST got signal 11 at YCP file PackagesUI.ycp:273
/sbin/yast2: line 399: 9151 Segmentation fault $ybindir/y2base $module "$@"
"$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS 

after installation while writing suse config script commence in Install/Remove
software(Software Manager) application

Created attachment 396366 [details]
/var/log/YaST2/signal

similar error here, just attached the log.

error msg:

YaST got signal 11 at YCP file PackagesUI.ycp:273
/sbin/yast2: line 399: 31577 Segmentation fault      $ybindir/y2base $module "$@" "$SELECTED_GUI" $Y2_GEOMETRY $Y2UI_ARGS

The backtrace points to the GTK back-end. Ricardo, do you think you could have a look?

Hi Ian. Please attach the yast2 logs in its entirely.

You can reproduce a nice tarball of them by issuing:
  su -c "/sbin/save_y2logs y2logs.tgz"

It's weird it crashed while on libglobalmenu-plugin. But it doesn't seem GTK related because it's not GTK specific. :-) I mean, Mark from bug 596845 is using the Qt plugin. yast2 being a multithreading application, it's more likely the same thread that is reporting those error message is also the culprit of the crash. I hope I have more to say when I have a look at the logs.

By the way, I have not been up to speed to free soft news, does anyone want to summarize to me what this globalmenu thing is?

I can see over http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/ , that it's supposed to be a mac-style menu-bar (in case the name wasn't intuitive enough :-)). But does anyone have any clue how it works? And has opensuse adopted it?

Created attachment 397331 [details]
 su -c "/sbin/save_y2logs y2logs.tgz"

Ricardo, here's the full log.

Thanks Ian!

Do a last favor for me though. :)

1. check if the users tool crashes:
  su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base users gtk"

2. check if the autoyast2 tool crashes:
  su -c "zypper install autoyast2"
  su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base autoyast2 gtk"

3. check if the software manager crashes, when using the qt plugin:
  su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base users qt"

You don't need to use the tools; just start them and then close them. And tell me if any crashed or not.

Thanks!

Hey Atri,

Do you know anything about a libglobalmenu-plugin?

It looks like it is responsible for the software manager crashing, when using Factory...

> 1. check if the users tool crashes:
>   su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base users gtk"

Opens, closes, no probs.

> 
> 2. check if the autoyast2 tool crashes:
>   su -c "zypper install autoyast2"
>   su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base autoyast2 gtk"

Install successful, but is your second command right? I get:
<quote>
carroll@lotka:~> su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base autoyast2 gtk"
Password: 
No such client module autoyast2
The search path follows. It does not include the current directory.
  /y2update/clients
  /root/.yast2/clients
  /usr/share/YaST2/clients
</quote>

 
> 3. check if the software manager crashes, when using the qt plugin:
>   su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base users qt"

Opens, closes, no probs.

more on request 2: I saw autoyast in the list of available modules, so i tried

su -c "/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base autoyast gtk"

which opened a dialog, and it closed with no error.

Thanks Ian!

The reason why I asked you to run autoyast is because it also uses a menu-bar. However, that menu-bar is initialized differently than the software manager one -- which should give us a clue into what the problem could be.

By the way, you do see a menu-bar when using autoyast, right? (If you're using a display resolution of 800x600, or smaller, then buttons would be used in place of the menu-bar...)

Created attachment 397394 [details]
screenshot of autoyast

gnome global menu applet is visible in top panel

Thanks guys. I will be installing 11.4 M2 in a machine, and address the issue in a couple of days.

By the way, that global menu thingie looks very useful for my netbook. ;-) I won't be able to use it in conjunction with focus-follows-mouse though. ahaha

What opensuse build are you guys using exactly? I installed Factory 0826 Gnome LiveCD [1], and I see no global menubar applet there -- already applied all upgrades... What's the package name?

[1] http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/

This bug report comports a blend of different bugs.

Volker and Rastislav:

  The bug you report seems to have been fixed as of bug 596920.

ashish:

  You need to get me some logs for me to work with.
  Please run:
  su -c "/sbin/save_y2logs y2logs.tgz"

Ian:

  I can't find no trace of global-menu in 11.3 or Factory repositories.
  Did you install global-menu manually? If so, tell me how.

Ricardo,

I saw the package on the google code site you found, asked about it on the forum, and a savvy user/developer put it on the build service.

package name: gnome-applet-globalmenu

http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=globalmenu&baseproject=openSUSE:11.3&lang=en&exclude_debug=true

Should I just uninstall it to resolve the problem?

Thanks
-Ian

Created attachment 397910 [details]
Test case reproducing the problem (in python)

Added a bug report to gnome2-globalmenu:

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/issues/detail?id=639

If you want to receive notifications on that bug report, I think you can do so by pressing the star icon (next to the title, on the left).

Ian, the bug you report is an issue of the gnome2-globalmenu applet. But fortunately we can work-around it. Please try the yast2-gtk RPM from:

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=yast2-gtk&project=YaST%3AHead

Notice that it wasn't crashing for me. It just wasn't showing any menubar entries. That's what I fixed: don't know if it will fix your crash or not.

If it still crashes, try re-installing the gnome2-globalmenu package, using the link you gave me. Maybe a new version was posted there since you installed.

I installed the rpm you linked out too, but YaST still crashed after trying to upgrade a package. I uninstalled the globalmenu applet. No more crash. Hopefully, they'll fix their bug, I liked that menu bar. Thanks.

Do you mean it crashes when you press the "Upgrade" button, or the "Apply" one?

You could try to run it through gdb (the debugger):
    gdb --args /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base sw_single gtk
    run
    (try to crash it)
    backtrace

That may give us some information to work with -- either us, or the global-menu guys.

Guys, you need to be more responsive. ;-)

Re-iterating:

ashish, run save_y2logs -- see comment 21.

Ian, run gdb -- see comment 26.

Ricardo, i already canned it (see comment 25). I'm not a developer (nor beta tester), just a blissfully ignorant user - and happy to stay that way.