I've found that the problem occurs when I have a panel located on the left-side of my gnome viewport.
After moving the panel back to it's initial location at the bottom of the screen, the problem cleared up. Luke On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Luke Whitmore <lwhitm...@gmail.com> wrote: > gnome-panel just hung again. I checked in top, and it was using 85% of the > CPU and approx. 255MB of ram. > > if there's a way I can use backtrace to successfully obtain the required > info, please let me know. > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Luke Whitmore <lwhitm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace: >> >> I carried out the instructions under the 'already running programs' >> sections. >> >> I get to point 5. >> >> The program will continue running. Perform any actions necessary to >> reproduce the crash. If the program hangs but doesn't crash you can press >> ctrl+c in gdb while the program is frozen and then continue with the next >> step. >> >> I ctrl+c in gdb but this exits from the gdb interface. It then seems >> impossible to continue with the instructions listed. >> >> Could this be because a subcomponent of the gnome-panel system is hanging >> rather than the actual gnome-panel application? If this is the case, how >> should I proceed? >> >> thx >> >> luke >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com>wrote: >> >>> would be interesting to know what is not clear there, >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash has "Now you make a >>> Backtrace. " which leads to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Backtrace which has >>> detailed explanation on how to get a backtrace of already running >>> software, did you try to do what is detailed there? what issue do you >>> get? >>> >>> -- >>> Gnome-panel hangs >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355915 >>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >>> of the bug. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Luke Whitmore >> >> UK Landline: +442030511409 >> >> > > > -- > Luke Whitmore > > UK Landline: +442030511409 > > -- Luke Whitmore UK Landline: +442030511409 -- Gnome-panel hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355915 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs