Re: gnome-panel keeps crashing dur to a "fatal error"

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:56:47 -0800 (PST)
Joubin Moshrefzadeh <joubin2000 yahoo com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I installed RH8.0 on a PIII system last week, and
> everything was running fine until a couple days ago,
> when I started playing around with the settings for
> the desktop panel...
>  
> I made some changes with the size and positioning of
> the different icons on the panel, and on my next
> bootup (and ever since) I keep getting the following
> error:
> 
> Application "gnome-panel" (process 1233) has crashed
> due to a fatal error.
> (Aborted)
> Please visit the GNOME Application Crash page for more
> information.
> 
> I tried visiting the site, but couldn't get much help
> from that, so i'm wondering if anyone here can tell me
> whats happening.
> 
> I don't get the problem if I login as root. In that
> profile, the panel is fine...
> 
> Much thanks,
> Joubin

For the record, I get the exact same behavior. I didn't used to. It just
started all of a sudden. I never bothered with worrying about it because
I don't use gnome, I only test it then move on. Ditto for KDE.

As an attempted quick fix, I renamed everything in $HOME that had even
the slightest chance of having an effect (.gnome, .gnome-desktop,
.gnome2, etc) and nothing changed. So changing icons or sizes could just
be a coincidence.

I have all sorts of tarballs and  Rawhide libraries and binaries all
over this machine. I passed it off as being related to that. Maybe that
isn't the cause after all.

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