340986 – bonobo-activation-server still alive after a X crash makes applets unusable

Bug 340986 - bonobo-activation-server still alive after a X crash makes applets unusable

Summary: bonobo-activation-server still alive after a X crash makes applets unusable

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331577

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.0
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	GNOME (show other bugs)
Version:	Factory
Hardware:	Other openSUSE 10.3

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Assignee:	E-mail List
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Whiteboard:	gnomeup-libbonobo
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Reported:	2007-11-12 13:38 UTC by Karl Eichwalder
Modified:	2008-06-11 20:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Karl Eichwalder 2007-11-12 13:38:15 UTC

I killed the X server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.  Now, after restarting GNOME, the default panel entries are gone.

If I right-click the, then "Add to Panel", select "Main Menu" and "Add", the following message window appears:

    The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID:GNOME_MainMenu".

          [ Don't deleste ]                [ Delete ]

And restoring the panel contents is not possible.  I probably must kill 'gconfd' or something like that.

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2007-11-12 13:40:47 UTC

Run /usr/lib/gnome-main-menu/main-menu on the command line and add to the panel again.  See if there are any errors.

Comment 2 Karl Eichwalder 2007-11-12 14:10:13 UTC

/usr/lib/gnome-main-menu/main-menu seems to wait for a timeout; after approx. 60s. it exits without any message or visible effect.

Comment 3 JP Rosevear 2007-11-12 17:11:48 UTC

Did you install from a live CD?

Comment 4 Karl Eichwalder 2007-11-13 07:37:16 UTC

No, my current installation is a 10.2 -> 10.3 update and since ~2 weeks it worked nicely.  Obviously, I destroyed something by pressing C-A-Backspace and thus forcing an X server crash.

Later the day, I will probably reboot after running an online update.

[BTW, it happened by accident ;)  I remember we discussed disabling this keycombo--I hope we do this now for new installations.]

Comment 5 Karl Eichwalder 2007-11-13 10:12:43 UTC

After rebooting I was able to add panel applications anew.

Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2007-11-15 15:52:48 UTC

Not sure exactly what else to do with this one - maybe a process got kill with X at exactly the wrong time ie writing out I/O.

Comment 7 Karl Eichwalder 2007-11-16 15:58:58 UTC

Timo observed a similar behavior in the past.  I guess if you try several times in a row, you should be able to reproduce it.

Comment 8 Magnus Boman 2008-03-22 08:39:25 UTC

Is this still an issue?

Comment 9 Karl Eichwalder 2008-03-25 07:09:23 UTC

I do not know (maybe, qa guys can reproduce it).  I merely described what happened to me.  In the meantime I did not crash the X server again.

I'll surely update my workstation vom 10.3 to 11.0.  Let's see what happens

Comment 10 Vincent Untz 2008-06-11 13:54:12 UTC

The problem most likely is that the bonobo activation server from the previous X session is still alive, and so applets don't work.

It's still valid in 11.0, I believe (I can reproduce the problem in jhbuild from time to time).

If someone who had this issue and who can reproduce this issue can confirm this (just do a ps before logging in again), that'd be great.

Comment 11 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-06-11 20:49:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 331577 ***