Connecting to an AP via NetworkManager results in a segfault in mate-panel and renders all icons useless. anthony@localhost ~/Documents $ sudo egrep "mate-panel.*segf" /var/log/messages Apr 28 23:37:58 localhost kernel: mate-panel[2886]: segfault at 6 ip 00007f015858c7f5 sp 00007ffd5bac6748 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.5200.3[7f0158558000+52000] anthony@localhost ~/Documents $ lsb_release -irs Gentoo 2.4.1 anthony@localhost ~/Documents $ uname -a Linux localhost 4.16.4 #1 SMP Wed Apr 25 23:01:35 EDT 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux anthony@localhost ~/Documents $ emerge --pretend -av mate-panel nm-applet networkmanager These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-misc/networkmanager-1.8.4::gentoo USE="audit bluetooth connection-sharing consolekit dhclient dhcpcd introspection modemmanager ncurses nss policykit ppp resolvconf wext wifi -elogind -gnutls -json -ofono (-selinux) -systemd -teamd {-test} -vala" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB [ebuild R ] mate-base/mate-panel-1.12.2-r3::gentoo USE="X introspection -gtk3" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.8.6::gentoo USE="introspection modemmanager -gcr (-selinux) -teamd" 0 KiB Total: 3 packages (2 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB anthony@localhost ~/Documents $
anthony@localhost ~/Documents $ sudo egrep -B1 "mate-panel.*segf" /var/log/messages Apr 28 23:37:44 localhost NetworkManager[2538]: <info> [1524973064.1135] audit: op="networking-control" arg="off" pid=2948 uid=1000 result="success" Apr 28 23:37:58 localhost kernel: mate-panel[2886]: segfault at 6 ip 00007f015858c7f5 sp 00007ffd5bac6748 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.5200.3[7f0158558000+52000]
This report is from a very old GTK+2 build of MATE. If you can still reproduce this bug, please repoen with more information. Thanks.