Bug 113805 – Gnome dialog box when logging in - "I've detected a panel already running, and will now exit."

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mark Knecht 2005-11-28 08:52:36 UTC]

When logging in on my AMD64 machine I receive the message:

"I've detected a panel already running, and will now exit."

I have to dismiss the dialog box by hand. If I do not dismiss it immediately
then I have to (sometimes) dismiss it exactly 11 times.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build Gnome on my AMD64 machine
2. Log in

Actual Results:  
As above

Expected Results:  
There is no message like this on any of my IA-32 machines so I assume it's some
sort of AMD64 issue.

There has been info in the Gentoo forums about people having this problem and
more advanced folks than I solving it. Whatever the proper fix is it would be
great if it moved to the stable (or even testing) branch one of these days. I
couldn't find a similar bug in Bugzilla so I'm submitting this as a bug report,
but I'm almost sure a duplicate has to be here somewhere.

lightning ~ # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.14-rt13 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-rt13 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp
http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cdr crypt
cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac
fluidsynth foomaticdb fortran gif gimp gimpprint glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 i8x0 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs java jpeg kde ladspa lcms
lirc lzw lzw-tiff mad mjpeg mng mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime radeon readline
real sdl sndfile spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis xine xml2 xpm xscreensaver xv xvid zlib
video_cards_radeon userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

lightning ~ #


lightning ~ # cat /var/lib/portage/world | grep gnome
gnome-base/gconf
gnome-base/gnome-applets
gnome-base/gnome-light
gnome-extra/gcalctool
gnome-base/gdm
net-analyzer/gnome-netstatus
app-text/gnome-spell
lightning ~ #

[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-11-28 14:03:33 UTC]

What version of gnome-session?  This was fixed in gnome-session-2.10.0-r3 as per
bug #98646

[Comment 2 Mark Knecht 2005-11-28 15:51:21 UTC]

I seem to have the proper version installed. Possibly it didn't fix it for AMD64?

Should I try the ~x86 version? 

mark@lightning ~ $ eix gnome-session
* gnome-base/gnome-session
     Available versions:  2.10.0 2.10.0-r3 ~2.12.0
     Installed:           2.10.0-r3
     Homepage:            http://www.gnome.org/
     Description:         Gnome session manager


Found 1 matches
mark@lightning ~ $

[Comment 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-11-28 20:23:50 UTC]

It definitely fixed it for me on amd64, so it's not an arch issue...

[Comment 4 Mark Knecht 2005-11-29 07:32:08 UTC]

I emerged the newest testing version. Still not fixed. Note that I did not
reboot to test. I just logged out. Possibly something was left hanging around in
memory?

mark@lightning ~ $ eix gnome-session
* gnome-base/gnome-session
     Available versions:  2.10.0 2.10.0-r3 2.12.0
     Installed:           2.12.0
     Homepage:            http://www.gnome.org/
     Description:         Gnome session manager


Found 1 matches
mark@lightning ~ $

[Comment 5 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-12-21 17:14:01 UTC]

are you still having this problem?  do you save your session when you logout?

[Comment 6 Mark Knecht 2005-12-21 17:21:58 UTC]

I am still having this problem and I do not generally save my setup when I exit. Should I?

[Comment 7 Mark Knecht 2005-12-21 17:23:45 UTC]

Thanks you. I dismissed the dialog and saved my setup once on exit. I then logged in again and did not get the message.

Thanks very much.