Public bug reported: After dist-upgrading my amd64 Intrepid workstation to Jaunty, gnome- panel began to freeze when I launched "Custom Application Launchers".
After some restarting and investigating I determined that the problem does not happen immediately when the Gnome session starts, but can take several hours to manifest itself. Once the problem has manifested itself, launching a "Custom Application Launcher" will seemingly "freeze" gnome-panel, causing no GUI updates to be done to any of the launchers. I have several panels, and on any of them "Custom Application Launchers", and ONLY Custom ones, cause the freeze. When the freeze occurs, the opening effect which is shown when you click a launcher (the one that shows a wireframe sort of box expanding out from the launcher eventually sizing itself to the perimeter of the screen and disappearing) freezes, hung on the screen at the last row of pixels on the edges. If I ssh in to my workstation and killall gnome-panel, gnome-panel restarts normally, but the "freeze" still occurs when I attempt to launch Custom Application Launchers. Applets and non-custom launchers work normally. Restarting my X/Gnome session resolves the problem for an hour or so until it manifests itself again. gnome-panel :: 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu7 Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty AMD64 I am running two 1920x1080 displays as :0.0 and :0.1, and xinerama. I attached gdb to the frozen gnome-panel and observed the backtrace, attached as gnome-panel-freeze-backtrace.txt ** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- gnome-panel freezes upon launching custom launchers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368836 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs