gonf2 upgrade breaks my system

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 08:17 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:50:12 -0400
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:44 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > > Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 00:33:06 -0400
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 21:30 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > > > > Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:41:19 -0400
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 20:30 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > > > > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 01:10:30 -0400
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 16:00 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > > > > > > 7.2-STABLE of April 22. Uniprocessor system (ThinkPad T43).
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > All ports updated to cvs as of 7-May at 03:00:00 UTC.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > After updating gconf2 to 2.26.1, my Gnome startup fails. I use startx,
> > > > > > > > > not gdm.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > The failure is that gnome-panel starts and the top panel appears for a
> > > > > > > > > second or two, then vanishes. But the CPU gets very busy, and the
> > > > > > > > > display starts jumping up and down by 24 pixels every second or so.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I get no core files and see nothing on the console that would indicate
> > > > > > > > > what might be happening, but it makes the system pretty unusable. The
> > > > > > > > > only way out that I could come up with was to switch back to vty0 and
> > > > > > > > > enter a ^C.
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > I tried moving my .gnome2 directory out of the way, but that did not
> > > > > > > > > help. Would .local or some other directory possibly help?
> > > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > > Any idea of where to look? How to try to get an indication of the
> > > > > > > > > problem? 
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Follow the instructions at
> > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/bugging.html to build gnome-panel and
> > > > > > > > gconf2 (at least) with debugging symbols, then hopefully you'll be able
> > > > > > > > to get a backtrace from gnome-panel.  All the symptoms point to a crash,
> > > > > > > > but I cannot reproduce.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Yes, gnome-panel crashes when I upgrade gconf2 to 2.26.1.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Looks to me like I will need to build a bunch more stuff with debug,
> > > > > > > but maybe this will help someone more familiar with the code.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Does this key exist:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > /apps/panel/applets/12t1062698483ut637949u1001p864r1504910582k3217026572/locked
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Nope. Should it?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes.  Each applet should have a locked key.
> > > 
> > > So, should I re-install gnome-applets? Or does the schema come from
> > > somewhere else?
> > 
> > You can try to reinstall gnome-panel.
> 
> No luck.
> 
> This seems to be a known problem in gconf2-2.26. It was first reported to
> bugzilla on May 5 and can be seen at:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581880 
> 
> Thanks for our help, but this does not look to be FreeBSD specific.

This should now be fixed in ports.

Joe

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