Re: gnome shell can't kill gnome panel

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM, JoeHill <joehill teksavvy com> wrote:
>
> When I run gnome-shell --replace, the panel disappears for a moment, then
> returns, and I get no gnome shell. This is the output:
>
> joehill node1:~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell/src$ ./gnome-shell --replace
> Checking for Xgl: Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./gnome-shell", line 263, in <module>
>    kill_gnome_panel(gnome_panel_pid)
>  File "./gnome-shell", line 51, in kill_gnome_panel
>    "-p", pid], stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 444, in call
>    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
>    errread, errwrite)

Do you have gdb installed?  It's probably missing from one of the
system setup lists; it seems to be in the Fedora one.

Ideally we'd change these to use the typically provided meta-systems,
like on Fedora the "Development" group instead of a hardcoded list.