Re: auto-hinding panel killing the X server ...
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:49, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:44:56PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 10:05, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:37:03AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When logging in this morning, a bad surprise awaited me. Gnome logs in
> > > > as usual, but when i go to the auto-hiding panel i have at the bottom of
> > > > the display, instead of un-hiding the panel, the X server just dies.
> > >
> > > After a bit more experimenting, i think i solved the problem, i still
> > > don't know why this happened.
> > >
> > > I first went to gconf-editor and marked the panel as unhided, i got to
> > > the panel, X died, i logged in again, and the panel did not hide itself.
> > > i then noticed that i could click on any of the icons, except the
> > > windows list applet, or the empty space on the panel after it. I managed
> > > to remove the applet (i could not click on the boxes for the windows,
> > > but i could right click on the applet itself) and added it again, and
> > > the problem went away.
> > >
> > > Real strange stuff.
> >
> > Indeed. You should know though that an X server crash is always an X
> > server bug.
>
> Well, i get nothing suspicious in the /var/log/XFree86, and i really
> don't see what could happen here.
Are you saying the log doesn't show a crash? If so, how do you know the
server crashed and not the GNOME session?
> It worked yesterday with the 4.3.0 packages and my own driver module.
> Now that i fixed it i cannot even get back to the broken situation and
> use gdb on the kernel or something such.
>
> Do you have an idea of what might have caused this ?
No. You'd have to reproduce the problem with the server running in gdb.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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