Bug 385831 – xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.8.3 crash after gcc update to gcc-4.5.3-r1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Marek Szczypinski 2011-10-06 06:19:22 UTC]

After upgrade from gcc-4.4.5 to gcc-4.5.3-r1 and rebuilding the system (as said in gentoo gcc upgrade guide) When logging into xfce4 session (via Slim) xfce4-panel tries to start,bun only "flickers" several times and dies. The same goes to the xfce desktop. I reinstalled system from scratch but the problem remains. No errors in logs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install new system with xfce4 (or having xfce upgrade gcc to version 4.5.3-r1)
2. Login
3. 
Actual Results:  
xfce4-panel and desktop (what has the desktop icons) try to start, but only flickers few times

Expected Results:  
xfce should work smoothly after upgrade of gcc. And especially with new gentoo installation.

Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2400_@_1.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.4-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.0.3
sys-apps/openrc:          0.8.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.12.2
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http:/gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl http://gentoo.po.opole.pl ftp://gentoo.po.opole.pl ftp://mirror.icis.pcz.pl/gentoo http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/ "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="pl"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage "
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups curl cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr encode exif ffmpeg fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmp gnuplot gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml gzip iconv imlib ipv6 java java6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify lock mad matroska matrox mmx modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses ncusres nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf png policykit pppd python quicktime raw readline redline sdl session smp spell sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification sysfs tcpd theora thunar tiff truetype udev unicode usb vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xml xorg xscreensaver xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-11-01 01:31:22 UTC]

That is quite an assumption to make and this bug has no real information to work on. Bouncing back to bug-wranglers.

[Comment 2 Marek Szczypinski 2011-11-09 11:02:19 UTC]

What else can I add? When I logged in there was some flickering on the screen in places where panels would be. After that no background, no panels, although I could start applications via F2 key.
I didn't find anything unusual in the logs. When I started the xfce4-panel via command line in Terminal it only gave some laconic info that application crashed, or an error occured - like I would'n know that already ;-)

Since the problem occured also after reinstalling the system (with the new version of gcc), maybe I had some use flags set such way it didn't work well with the new version of gcc, or something.

On my other gentoo boxes the error didn't occur. But there's gnome installed and I switched to the new version of gcc but didn't rebuild the system with it. I let my weekly updates switch their systems to new gcc versions. So far it works without any problems.

So far I have switched my own laptop to another distro and wait untill the problems with "halles" xfce stop, so I could switch back to using gentoo :-)

Should I/We close the bug, then?