Bug 15233 – Notification Applet crashes when closed/quit or when exiting Gnome

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Basinger 2003-02-06 16:05:24 UTC]

The Notifcation Appltet crashes (gnome-applet 2.2.0) when it is closed/quit or
when you exit Gnome.

The old system-tray-applet was unmerge from the system prior to Gnome 2.2 install.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close/Quit Notification Area applet
2. Exit Gnome when applet is running
3.

Actual Results:  
Application "notification-area-applet" (process 2600) has crashed
due to a fatal error.
(Segmentation fault)

Expected Results:  
Closes normally

Portage 2.0.46-r11 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r3)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="3dnow apm libg++ qtmt gdbm berkdb tetex aalib nas ggi guile mysql gpm X gtk
gnome alsa arts avi -bci bonobo cdr crypt cups -directfb dvd encode esd gif gtk2
gtkhtml imap imlib java jpeg -kde ldap libwww maildir mbox mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python -qt
quicktime readline -samba scanner sdl slang smooth spell ssl -svga tcltk tcpd
tiff truetype usb wmf xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-07 09:02:51 UTC]

known problem

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105421

[Comment 2 Matthew Schick 2003-02-12 09:58:45 UTC]

They have a fix here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105421

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-12 10:02:27 UTC]

have you tested this ?

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-02-16 16:25:58 UTC]

Foser, can we get a -r out with that patch, and arch masked ?  I had this as
well, but still working through my 200+ bugzilla mails, so dont know when or
if I'll get to this =)

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-16 19:51:41 UTC]

sure ill test and do it asap, im struggling trough this bugswamp here as well.

[Comment 6 Christian Timmer 2003-02-17 14:31:38 UTC]

The patch works fine for me.

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-20 12:35:52 UTC]

uh forgot to close, already fixed.