Re: Applets are giving me trouble! and gnome-terminal too!

[robert havoc pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On 17 May 1998, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Claudemir> I can't put any applet on the panel, I'm receiving an error
> Claudemir> that says: can't talk to the panel.
> 
> I don't know if you got an answer to this or not.
> 
> I believe this problem is usually caused by misconfigured networking
> on your end.  Try "ping localhost".  If that fails, you've found the
> problem.
> 
> I haven't run into this one myself, so I might very well be wrong.
> 

FWIW I just started getting the same problem, and mine worked before. This
is if I start the applet from an xterm. localhost pings fine. If I "Add
Applet" I get a segfault (trace appended). If I try to launch an app, the
child segfaults (I don't know where, gdb isn't attached to it - there must
be a way to do that, need to read gdb docs...). However, I assume the
segfault is in the launching code since every app does it.  The
session-saved applets show up OK when the panel starts. There also seems
to be a default black background now, if you clear your .gnome/panel and
start the panel, it's gray the first time, but if you run it again it's
black. 

Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp

Trace from Add Applet:

#0  0x40759f61 in strlen ()
#1  0x8052f9f in add_applet (w=0x8110a60, data=0x8110510) at menu.c:180
#2  0x40568dd7 in gtk_signal_default_marshaller (object=0x8110a60, 
    func=0x8052f60 <add_applet>, func_data=0x8110510, params=0xbfffe404)
    at gtksignal.c:1165
#3  0x4056a0f3 in gtk_handlers_run (handlers=0x8109000, info=0xbfffe3c4, 
    after=0) at gtksignal.c:1689
#4  0x405695c8 in gtk_signal_real_emit (object=0x8110a60,
signal=0x809e070, 
    params=0xbfffe404) at gtksignal.c:1380
#5  0x405668e2 in gtk_signal_emit (object=0x8110a60, signal_id=66)
    at gtksignal.c:502
#6  0x405a9de9 in gtk_widget_activate (widget=0x8110a60) at 
gtkwidget.c:2073
#7  0x4053932c in gtk_menu_shell_button_release (widget=0x810fb40, 
    event=0x811ba50) at gtkmenushell.c:372
#8  0x405ae23a in gtk_widget_marshal_signal_4 (object=0x810fb40, 
    func=0x40539130 <gtk_menu_shell_button_release>, func_data=0x0, 
    args=0xbfffe74c) at gtkwidget.c:3411
#9  0x40569692 in gtk_signal_real_emit (object=0x810fb40,
signal=0x809dad0, 
    params=0xbfffe74c) at gtksignal.c:1401
#10 0x405668e2 in gtk_signal_emit (object=0x810fb40, signal_id=26)
    at gtksignal.c:502
#11 0x405a9ba9 in gtk_widget_event (widget=0x810fb40, event=0x811ba50)
    at gtkwidget.c:2049
#12 0x4052eecc in gtk_propagate_event (widget=0x810fb40, event=0x811ba50)
    at gtkmain.c:1683
#13 0x4052cb8d in gtk_main_iteration_do (blocking=1) at gtkmain.c:712
#14 0x4052c667 in gtk_main_iteration () at gtkmain.c:506
#15 0x4011d7b1 in GtkDispatcher::run ()
#16 0x40207005 in MICO::BOAImpl::impl_is_ready ()
#17 0x80558b4 in panel_corba_gtk_main ()
#18 0x8052b1c in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffc70) at main.c:1030