"Run and crash" bug also in the panel...

Olivier fourdan at xfce.org
Thu Jun 3 08:49:02 CEST 2004


Jean-Francois,

I am not that sure it's a false alert. I did see the same problem.

I keep thinking there is a nasty race cond somewhere that cause mem
corruption in certain cases, and that's why you see it just sometimes.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:52, Jean-François Wauthy wrote:
> Apparently it was a false alert ... sorry i restarted xfce4-panel with 
> "Run command" from the desktop menu... Restarting the panel from a
> terminal doesn't make it crash anymore. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
> 
> Le mer 02/06/2004 à 09:29, Jean-François Wauthy a écrit :
> > Yesterday evening, i was amazed to encounter the same bug with the panel
> > launchers as with the desktop menu... I told it to Brian and he asked me
> > to send this mail. But this morning, before beginning to write, i tried
> > a last time and no bug more... i wondered why... and tried to remember
> > what i did yesterday. I remembered i had "tried" the #215 (Using 'Quit'
> > button in the Desktop menu results in panel crash/termination, it does
> > not log off the session). (oops) I did it again, restarted the panel and
> > then the bug appeared. So IMO there are 2 possibilities :
> > 1) this is nor a xfdesktop nor a xfce4-panel bug and it should be
> > somewhere in the libs
> > 2) this is a xfdesktop bug and using 'Quit' "propagates" it to the panel
> > (sounds weird because the panel has been restarted before bug appears)
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