[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#496277: Bug#496277: xfce4-menu-plugin segfaults, causing xfce-panel to exit on startup

[matsche at play-pla.net (Matsche)]

OK, this is my last try to replay to this bug... :/
the behavior of the groups is not understandable for me.


Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On dim, 2008-08-24 at 16:03 +1000, Ian MacKinnell wrote:
>> If I open the desktop menu by right-clicking on the desktop
>> background, the menu works OK unless I pass over "Graphics" or 
>> "Games", at which point the menu instantly disappears instead of 
>> displaying the
>> submenu, and all my desktop icons disappear, and I have to press 
>> Alt-F2 to get
>> a prompt to run xfce-setting-show, go to Desktop Preferences and 
>> switch back on "Allow XFCE to manage the desktop". In other words, 
>> the menu
>> is crashing AND causing a configuration change on the XFCE desktop.
>
> The menu crashes and makes xfdesktop crashes. I guess you have dirty
> menu entries, or something like that. Could you show us what entries you
> have in this categories? 

I think it depends on some xml-svg-stuff.
In my case, the panel crashes with error message

(xfce4-menu-plugin:10967): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x4000003
unexpectedly destroyed
The program 'xfce4-menu-plugin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 154 error_code 3 request_code 18 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
function.)
.

After some timespending dumpstering i found an launcher entry with:

[Entry 0]
Name=ScummVM
Exec=/usr/games/scummvm
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Comment=Interpreter for several adventure games
Icon=scummvm.svg

after commenting (#) the icon line it works.

>> All this happened as a result of a daily dist-upgrade on Friday night 
>> (22 Aug) AEST.
>
> Could you show use what got upgraded?
>
The packages are:

libxml2_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
python2.5_2.5.2-6+lenny1_i386.deb
libxml2-dev_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
python2.5-minimal_2.5.2-6+lenny1_i386.deb
libxml2-utils_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
python-libxml2_2.6.32.dfsg-2+lenny1_i386.deb
openvpn_2.1~rc9-3_i386.deb


I hope it helps.

Cheers,
 matsche