Problem with Panel from CVS this morning

[Marc Schwartz]

On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 09:58, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> All of a sudden this morning, I am having problems loading xfce4-panel
> after building from CVS today. This is on FC2 (fully updated).
> 
> While I have script files that download and build xfce and goodies from
> the respective CVS's, I went ahead and rebuilt both panel and mixer
> individually to check for any obvious errors. I did not see any.
> 
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmixer.so is present.
> 
> What is interesting, in the process of trying to debug the mixer msgs,
> is that I have deleted the files in ~/.xfce4/sessions and I have removed
> the XML settings for mixer from xfce4rc. So I am also unclear as to why
> mixer is still being loaded with panel when presumably it is no longer
> in the config files? Did I miss something?
> 
> Below is the output when starting panel from a console:
> 
> 
> ** (xfce4-panel:2264): WARNING **: xfce4-panel: module
> /usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmixer.so cannot be opened
> (/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/libmixer.so: undefined symbol:
> XFCE_PANEL_LOCK)
> 
> (xfce4-panel:2264): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkdraw.c: line 412
> (gdk_draw_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
> 
> (xfce4-panel:2264): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkdraw.c: line 412
> (gdk_draw_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: Successfully started with session management
> 
> (xfce4-panel:2264): GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 291
> (g_hash_table_insert): assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
> 
> (xfce4-panel:2264): GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 291
> (g_hash_table_insert): assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
> 
> 
> When panel is started like this, it does appear, but is not responsive
> to mouse clicks, etc.


Here is a little more information. I did a 'make uninstall' for mixer
and reloaded the panel from a console:

(xfce4-panel:4479): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkdraw.c: line 412
(gdk_draw_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed
 
(xfce4-panel:4479): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkdraw.c: line 412
(gdk_draw_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_GC (gc)' failed


The panel does not "fully" load at this point however. A greyish filled
rectangle appears in the size of the panel, without any further panel
details being seen.


A thought came to me and I used su to change to root and loaded panel as
root. It seems to come up OK, so I thought that perhaps something was
corrupted or changed in xfce4rc.

I renamed my own xfce4rc so that it would not get picked up by panel at
startup. Panel now comes up OK, with presumably a default configuration
(the same as root's). So it seems to be working now, albeit I will need
to go back and change the configuration back to mine.

I am not sure what happened here, as to my knowledge no changes were
made to my xfce4rc file.

If I find out anything else, I will post back.

Thanks,

Marc