Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-panel
Gnome-panel crashed when I was trying to extract a possibly suspect .iso the panel restarted itself and the bug buddy popped up. when I close bug buddy gnome-panel restarted itself and again failed with bug buddy making another appearance. this only effected the account I had been playing with the .iso in other accounts worked fine I eventually traced this problem to the recent documents .recently-used.xbel when I deleted this file the panel would launch and be 'bug free' however as soon as I opened a document .recently-used.xbel would be recreated complete with the problematic entry deleting .recently-used.xbel and then logging out gave me a working system again :) this was a frustrating time as my system became pretty unusable eg alt-f2 was not available. I had to create launchers to get anywhere. it would be good if this error could be caught and handled more gracefully. I think this may have been the problem entry <bookmark href="file://Xl%1A%08" added="2006-11-06T13:10:11Z" modified="2006-11-06T13:10:11Z" visited="2006-11-06T13:10:11Z"> <info> <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org"> <mime:mime-type type="application/octet-stream"/> <bookmark:applications> <bookmark:application name="File Roller" exec="file-roller %u" timestamp="1162818611" count="1"/> </bookmark:applications> </metadata> </info> </bookmark> ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- gnome-panel crash restart cycle with bad recent documents https://launchpad.net/bugs/70595 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs