gnome-panel crashes when loggin off - not as root!!
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 22 00:33:41 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 15:54 -0800, Ian Burrell wrote:
> On 1/21/06, David Nielsen <gnomeuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > lør, 21 01 2006 kl. 23:59 +0100, skrev Roger Grosswiler:
> >
> > > i deleted .gconf everything with .gnome* and .gtk
> > >
> > > now it works, thanks. Was definitively my profile that crashed somehow.
> >
> > That is a very bad solution really, what happens with say fcX to FC5
> > upgrades in profiles don't migrate properly. Unless you did something to
> > your configuration to cause this I'd say it warrents investigation.
> >
> > I guess we'll have to test a migration once we get to test3 to see if
> > the issue continues and under which conditions. Do you have a backup of
> > the offending setup?
> >
>
> I followed a suggestion of somebody on fedora-devel and deselected
> "Enable software
> sound mixing (ESD)" in the Sound preferences panel. Logout then
> worked fine. Reselecting it and it crashed.
>
> It is possible that not playing sound is the default. In that case,
> using root or deleting the configuration directories go back to the
> default which happens to work. Temporarily disabling the event sounds
> until the bug is fixed is much better than deleting all your settings.
>
> - Ian
>
I can confirm that this indeed bypasses the problem. Bugzilla #178228
still needs fixing, but this should be a good clue. I'll add my
confirmation to the bug report.
Gerry
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