Re: gnome shell can't kill gnome panel

[JoeHill <joehill teksavvy com>]

Colin Walters wrote: 

> 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.

I have it installed now ;) Not sure how to proceed, though, because it keeps
telling me that gnome-shell is not an executable file. It's been awhile since
I've used gdb, though...

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

-- 
J