Re: bug report in panel

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

Sorry to reply to my own post, but it appears to start up ok now.  The
only think I might have done is change the permissions on some of the
directories.

Dave

> the panel starts ok if I su to root, but when run it as a normal user,
> it segfaults:
> 
> gdb panel
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> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/panel 
> Message: [681] returning buffer 0x80a4f48 from recv_reply
> Message: [681] returning buffer 0x80a4f48 from recv_reply
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x400d1f9b in goad_server_activate_with_id (server_list=0x0, 
>     server_id=0x80dcbf0 "gen_util_clock", flags=24, params=0x0) at
> goad.c:394
> 394       for(i = 0; slist[i].repo_id; i++) {
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x400d1f9b in goad_server_activate_with_id (server_list=0x0, 
>     server_id=0x80dcbf0 "gen_util_clock", flags=24, params=0x0) at
> goad.c:394
> #1  0x80607eb in extern_start_new_goad_id (e=0x80dcb98) at
> extern.c:208
> #2  0x8060aea in load_extern_applet (goad_id=0x807523f
> "gen_util_clock", 
>     cfgpath=0x0, panel=0x80b12a8, pos=1073741823) at extern.c:347
> #3  0x8055dda in load_default_applets () at session.c:658
> #4  0x80562a0 in init_user_panels () at session.c:784
> #5  0x8051a2a in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff7e0) at main.c:161
> 
> 
> My apologies if this has been fixed in cvs.  My setup is a Pentium
> running RedHat 5.2.  Also, should/can I use glib/gtk 1.1.9 with these
> 0.99.tar.gz files?  
> 
> Also, are new 0.99 tarballs going to be made frequently?