Panel segfaults at startup (ORBit problem?)

[Andy Smith <ams70 cam ac uk>]

Hi,

Up until a couple of days ago I had a nicely working Gnome system from
CVS.  Since I recompiled ORBit, gnome-libs and gnome-core from the
latest CVS sources (ORBit 0.5.1, gnome-libs 1.0.56 from the stable CVS
branch, gnome-core 1.1.5cvs) I have had the panel segfaulting when I
start Gnome.  gnome-session keeps trying to reload it and it keeps
crashing until I kill the X server.  Running the panel separately in
gdb and doing a backtrace when it crashes gives me this:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x40052167 in PortableServer_POA_activate_object (obj=0x80d8978, 
    p_servant=0x80916d4, ev=0x8092f48) at poa.c:719
719             new_objid =
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x40052167 in PortableServer_POA_activate_object (obj=0x80d8978, 
    p_servant=0x80916d4, ev=0x8092f48) at poa.c:719
#1  0x8074234 in panel_corba_gtk_init (panel_orb=0x80d7a28) at extern.c:1266
#2  0x8055224 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffad4) at main.c:161
#3  0x404f3cb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80551cc <main>, argc=1, 
    argv=0xbffffad4, init=0x8052b04 <_init>, fini=0x8088f8c <_fini>, 
    rtld_fini=0x4000a350 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffacc)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78

I have tried various combinations of different CVS versions and the
"stable" ORBit 0.5.1 tarball; nothing seems to work (I could downgrade
to stable tarballs for everything I guess, but I don't want to lose
gnome-core 1.1 functionality, especially as it was working before).

Some other system details, which haven't changed since before Gnome
stopped working:

- Red Hat 6.0
- Linux kernel version 2.2.15
- glibc 2.1.1
- XFree86 3.3.3

Does anyone know what's wrong and/or how to fix it?  If you need more
information or if this is the wrong forum, please let me know.

Thanks,

    Andy
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Andy Smith                                             ams70@cam.ac.uk
St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP                   (07989) 453208
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