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

[George <jirka 5z com>]

> 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. 

I think tom (or someone) was messing with the way apps are started and
applets are started a bit differently ... the panel does it itself (to
catch dead applets etc ...) .. is seems it can't get the dentry->exec[0]
element (it is null I guess or points to a bad location)

George

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