Yes, you can press CTRL+C in GDB to interrupt it and get a backtrace that way. It might be worth interrupting a couple of times to make sure that it interrupts in a similar code section.
You can attach GDB to the already running instance of gnome-panel, rather than killing the existing one and starting a new process. -- gnome-panel hangs when using recently used files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs