Due to running out of disk space recently one of the entries in my gnome-panel bar, (/home/ee0mdc/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/larry-00214be04e.desktop) became emtpy, without me noticing. When restarting gnome, gnome-panel would segfault, as me to submit a bug report, then when I clicked on the button to kill gnome-panel, it would attempt to restart gnome-panel, and segfault again. I tracked it down to the aforementioned file, deleted it, and gnome-panel is now working again. I'm not sure what modifications, patches, etc. have been applied by the gentoo team so it seems sensible to post the bug here, then try and find where to post wrt the gnome site, if you think that's best. * gnome-base/gnome-panel Latest version available: 2.2.2.2 Latest version installed: 2.2.2.2 Size of downloaded files: 2,618 kB Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/ Description: The Panel for Gnome2
please have a look at bug 26400 and see if downgrading to gtk+2.2.1 fixes the problem. you really need to be able to reproduce the problem for us to help you fix the bug as well.
make[5]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2-r30/work/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2/help/C/fish' /bin/sh ../../../mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2-r30/image//usr/share/omf/gnome-panel for file in fish-applet-2-C.omf; do \ /bin/install -c -m 644 $file.out /var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2-r30/image//usr/share/omf/gnome-panel/$file; \ done /bin/install: cannot stat `fish-applet-2-C.omf.out': No such file or directory make[5]: *** [install-data-hook-omf] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2-r30/work/gnome-panel-2.2.2.2/help/C/fish' make[4]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
before posting a comment please consider the following: a) whether what you are posting is even remotely related to the bug topic (in this case i can't see that it is) b) that you provide some explanation of your problem c) that you provide us with some information about your system (emerge info is usually a good start) i have no idea why you've just tacked this on here, and why do you have gnome-panel-2.2.2.2-r30 ? the latest i see in portage is gnome-panel-2.2.2.2
reporter, an apps response to random input (cause that is what it is) is never given. It just expect things to be there. I don't see what we can do here. You could argue that panel could be made more robust, but it probably isn't worth tracking this odd one out bug (which could be very timeconsuming) vs. the allover health of the project. So thats why i'm closing this bug, thanks for the report anyway. Obz, not every bug can be tracked down to gtk+-2.2.2 ;) It's quite obvious here that the reporter found the cause and properly handled the problem, the question is what are we able to do with it (not much in this case). Josh is probably one of the people who likes to break his gentoo install with unsupported extras provided via certain sites. I assume here it is probably the xd2 package. Josh, please take your bugs there and not to us, we do not support those efforts in any way officially. Though i must say it looks like another bug, which seems to be hardware related (you can use the search for that one on here).
