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robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

Registered: 2007-09-11

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GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

After last upgrade (pacman -Syu) lots of GNOME and GTK applications (mostly gnome-panel, nautilus, firefox3, epiphany) became very unstable. They crash all the time making whole desktop almost unuseable.

I guess it's not hardware problem since Windows and Windows applications work correctly.

Do you have similar problem or know how to solve this?

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

I've not experienced this extent of things, but the Gnome panel does just "freeze" on me.  The clock stops, the workspace switcher stops, the CPU meters stop.  Everything else works. in the system, and even may of the launchers on the panel work.  Anything that provides "status" does now -- network monitor, etc.

I tried reinstalling the Gnome panel and it didn't help.  I can right-click the clock and change a setting (for example, 12 or 24 hour), or I can rick-click the pager and change the number of rows or something and the panel will start working again.  I can even open the "workspace screenlet" and the panel will start working again.  Eventually it will quit working again for no reason.  I opened a discussion on it called "Workspace Switcher Problems" ot something but it has garnered no response as of yet.

I really have no clue.  I'm trying adding just an applet or two at a time to the panel and see if I can figure our what's going on.

HP DV9000 Pavilion Laptop
2GB RAM
nVidia 8600 256MB RAM
Dual 160 GB drives
Latest updated from Core, Community and Extra
Gnome Panel 2.22.1.3

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mrunion

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

This may have something to do with it, maybe?

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ … bug/207693

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robertp

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From: Warszawa, Poland

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

Thanks for link. I read it and it seems to be GTK bug. I hope it will be fixed soon.

dolby

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Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

firefox3 has been crashing on me too. i thought it was a firefox3 issue but since its the only gtk2 based app i use it might not.

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mrunion

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

FWIW on the gnome Panel -- I removed the Wireless Network Monitor and it hasn't locked up since.

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freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

firefox3 has been crashing on me too. i thought it was a firefox3 issue but since its the only gtk2 based app i use it might not.

Firefox is not Gtk+, it's XUL - it just mimics Gtk+ appearance.

robertp

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

Firefox (exactly libxul.so) is using GTK+ on Linux. Proof below.

%ldd libxul.so 
./libxul.so: /usr/lib/libnss3.so: version `NSS_3.12' not found (required by ./libxul.so)
        ....
    libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb6f62000)
    libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb6eff000)
    libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6ed8000)
    libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb6e9a000)
    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb6dbc000)
    libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb6db9000)
    libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb6d01000)
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb6843000)
    libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb6829000)
    libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb67a3000)
    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb6789000)
        ....

Last edited by robertp (2008-05-01 11:04:15)

alex_anthony

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Registered: 2007-09-25

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Re: GNOME/GTK continuous crashes

xul on linux accesses the gtk data to get your colours and icons and things, but the layout is run by xul