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About once a day my gnome-panel freezes.

How can I produce some sort of debug information to:

  • Figure out what is causing the freeze or
  • File a bug or see if its an existing bug

When gdb is attached to gnome-panel and the bug occurs I cannot get a stack trace out of gdb. 

Reading symbols from /lib/libbz2.so.1.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libbz2.so.1.0
0x00007f7cefe10f48 in poll () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) c
Continuing.

^C
^C

The "^C" is to show that once the bug occurs gdb stops responding to Ctrl+c and kill -INT.

Mateo
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Niall Murphy
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  • You might want to check with this: http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/678/clock-applet-stops-after-login – Marco Ceppi Aug 04 '10 at 12:48
  • This question appears to be abandoned, if you are experiencing a similar issue please ask a new question with details pertaining to your problem. If you feel this question is not abandoned, please flag the question explaining that. I am flagging this for deletion :) – Ringtail Feb 28 '12 at 04:02
  • Yes, I never learned how to find out what was wrong. And now gnome-panel is not supported by Ubuntu so this question is irrelevant. – Niall Murphy Feb 28 '12 at 10:48
  • Are you still experiencing this issue? – jrg Feb 28 '12 at 13:20
  • I stopped using gnome-panel altogether soon after so no, I don't have that issue any more. I think I remember it still happened even with only the clock applet running. I never got a good stack trace for the panel out of GDB either. – Niall Murphy Feb 28 '12 at 14:48

3 Answers3

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Attach to the panel after it's frozzen.

$ gdb --pid=`pidof gnome-panel`
(gdb) bt full

Also make sure you have the necessary debugging symbols installed. At least libglib2.0-0-dbg and libgtk2.0-0-dbg.

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The comments on this bug report on the same issue first point the reporter to a wiki page entitled Debugging a Program Crash and then to a page describing how to get a backtrace. Perhaps those will help you get the debugging info you need.

I answered a question about a similar problem with a workaround that may help you. It goes like this:

  1. Create a script called delayed-gnome-panel.sh in your home directory and mark it as executable.

  2. Edit the script to look like this:

    #! /bin/bash
sleep 3 && gnome-panel &
exit

  3. Then edit /usr/share/applications/gnome-panel.desktop so that exec=bash /home/<user>/delayed-gnome-panel.sh.

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  • That bug report seems to be related. I would prefer to know what the cause of the problem is and get it fixed permanently rather than adding MORE delay hacks to my desktop startup. – Niall Murphy Aug 05 '10 at 09:42
  • Did the debugging info in the report not help any? – crenshaw-dev Aug 05 '10 at 16:21
  • Not really, that is the first article that pops up about debugging. I cant get a stack trace out of gdb for this bug in gnome-panel. Ill put some more detail in the question. – Niall Murphy Aug 06 '10 at 16:29
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To debug the gnome-panel from the beginning you can try:

$ gnome-session-remove gnome-panel
$ gdb gnome-panel
...
(gdb) run

You would need the debugging symbols in order to get something readable (ie gnome-panel-dbg).

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