Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome
I installed 7.04 on a new PC and started to customize my desktop.
Afterwards I was not able to log in: gnome crashed after flashing my
desktop briefly and went back to the login screen. After a long process
of testing the modifications one at a time, I came to this conclusion:
If I resize the bottom panel from 32 to 40 pixels, gnome crashes. If I
put it back at 32, all is OK again.
The file I was changing between tests:
~/.gconf/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0/%gconf.xml
The change I made was to the entry called "size".
Test procedure:
0. log in to normal account
1. using panel properties (right mouse menu), change the bottom panel size to
40.
2. log out and back in
3. gnome crashes and returns to login page
4. log in as root and edit the above file back to 32
5. log in to normal account
6. everything is now normal
daemon.log had the unhelpful message:
gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
I was not able to find anything else relevant among the tons of trash in
the many log files.
After doing a google search and visiting some forums, I discovered
others having this problem or a very similar one. I could not find a
similar bug report, so I am filing a new one.
Others have stated that the problem is triggered by enabling
transparency in the panel. I tested this and concluded that BOTH
conditions are needed to trigger the problem: a panel with transparency
enabled AND bigger than the default of 32 pixels.
I have two computers running Ubuntu 7.04. One has this problem, the
other one does not. So obviously there is some other dependency that is
unknown.
** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gnome login crash after panel properties update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128482
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