Re: My panel keeps crashing: iofputs.c

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Robert Goodwin <rob@fusionmediagroup.com> writes:

> Hi everyone
> 
> i can't even run the gnome config tool without crashing panel.  I'm
> getting Gdk errors.
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>   serial 134 error_code 3 request_code 10 minor_code 0
> 
> this happens when i click on gnome help, gnome config, or gnome
> terminal.  if i run under gdm i get this:
> 
> Starting program: /usr/bin/panel 
> (no debugging symbols found)...
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x404a0fa2 in _IO_fputs (str=0x80c3568 "execing: gnome-terminal\n",
> fp=0x405376e0)
>     at iofputs.c:39
> iofputs.c:39: No such file or directory.
> 
> if you think a backtrace would help i can send it along but what is that
> iofputs.c and what's its problem anyway?

Actually, the first thing we would want to know are things
like:

 - What OS
 - What version of the OS
 - What versions of the GNOME components 
 - Did you install from RPM's or tarballs (or dpkg or ...) . Which RPM's?

Without this type of information, it's hard to evaluate
a bug report.
                                        Owen