gdm and gnome-applets broken?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 09:21 +0200, Émeric Maschino wrote:
> > This should be fixed in today's rawhide with gdm-1:2.15.3-6, and also in
> > FC5-updates with gdm-1:2.14.4-1.fc5.3.  If you'd like to fix it right
> > away, edit your /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf file, and replace
> > occurances of "/usr/X11R6/bin" with "/usr/bin".
> 
> I confirm that gdm-2.15.3-6 solves the problem for me.
> 
> > Both these issues affect all architectures AFAIK.  If there's not
> > already a bug for the mixer applet issue, please file one.  The gdm
> > issue has already been filed and fixed.
> 
> Generally speaking, except than installing the debuginfo package, how to
> debug a GNOME applet? I mean, which executable run into gdb? I would
> like to give a more informative bug report than just "GNOME mixer applet
> is broken".
> 

the applets live in /usr/libexec, to debug one, you can 

a) remove it from panel
b) start in on the commandline in the debugger
c) use "Add to panel" to add it to the panel again; that 
  will pick up the instance you started in b)