[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000036]: xfce4-panel causes computer lockup

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The following bug has been CLOSED
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000036
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Reporter:                   xantius
Handler:                    huysmans
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000036
Category:                   panel
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   crash
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
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Date Submitted:             2003-12-08 18:21 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-04-13 15:45 GMT
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Summary:                    xfce4-panel causes computer lockup
Description: 
After running xfce4-panel for a little while (seems to vary), it begins to
eat up clock cycles until I have seen it consuming 98% of the CPU and then
today it finally caused my computer to crash.  I can't kill -9 the process
or find any way of ending it without rebooting the entire machine.  This
happens nearly every time I'm in xfce for longer than a few minutes.
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 olivier - 2003-12-08 18:31 GMT 
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Suprising, it's prolly an issue with one of the plugins you use. Try
removing each plugin one by one until you find the one which is guilty.

PS: Please mention what version of xfce you are running, what platform,
including OS and HW, etc. plus what config you have what plugins and so
on. Such a bug report is fairly useless otherwise.

Cheers,
Olivier.

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 olivier - 2003-12-08 18:35 GMT 
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Ooops, sorry, I didn't see the additional comments.

Olivier.

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 olivier - 2003-12-08 18:37 GMT 
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What version of gtk are you running? 

Olivier.

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 huysmans - 2003-12-09 13:41 GMT 
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I agree with Olivier, this sounds like a plugin problem. Can you tell me
what plugins you use? 

Also it may be helpful if you try removing them one by one, to see if it
stops.

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 xantius - 2003-12-09 14:36 GMT 
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Ok. Lets see if I can answer these questions.  The Hardware config is a
PIII 900Mhz laptop with 256MB ram, 20GB hard drive, 1027x768 screen, and
so on.  I don't appreciate my bug report being called useless, OLIVER! :) 
Just kidding.  GTK I'm running I believe 2.2.4-r1 (at least that's what
Gentoo lists it as).

As for plugins, I think you are right.  It may very well have been the CPU
and memory monitoring plugin, because I believe that is the only plugin
that I have removed and haven't seemed to have problems since.  Actually,
now that I think about it I also removed the network traffic plugin.  But
those are the only two.  Let me know if you would like me to try anything
to help you figure it out, etc.

Xantius

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 huysmans - 2003-12-09 14:48 GMT 
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Well, you could try adding them back (one at the time) and see if the
problem returns. Also you may want to check if you are running the latest
versions of the plugins.

PS
"1027x768 screen", interesting ... ;-)

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 xantius - 2003-12-09 21:31 GMT 
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Ok.  Well, I added back on the Network monitor plugin and now just barely
with my computer running XFce4 and GAIM and nothing else, my system fan
kicked on, and I didn't think anything of it.  Then a few minutes later
when I tried to use it, it was locked up tight.  I'm now going to remove
the network plugin and add the cpu and memory and see if that does it.

And YES, my resolution is 1027x768. :) (the screen has the side broken so
it is a little bent back to show an extra 3 pixels!

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 olivier - 2003-12-09 21:44 GMT 
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> the screen has the side broken so it is a little
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
                  That's the cause of the bug :)

Olivier.

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 xantius - 2003-12-11 01:16 GMT 
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It does appear as though the screen was the problem.  Wait!  That makes no
sense! :-P 

No, in reality, it does appear to be the network traffic plugin that was
causing the problems.  I put in everything except that now, including the
CPU/Memory/Swap plugin that I thought was the initial problem, and it's
working fine even over long periods of time.  Just thought I'd let you
know.

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 bwalle - 2003-12-27 20:22 GMT 
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Sounds very strange. Can you run wormuon (the codebase for the netload
plugin) from http://www.raisdorf.net/wormulon over a long period of time.

Also, can you run fuser /proc/net/dev while the problem occures?

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 huysmans - 2004-04-13 15:44 GMT 
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Closing this because of lack of activity.

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 huysmans - 2004-04-13 15:45 GMT 
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No reply => no bug ;-)