[4752] in testers
Re: Most strange panel behavior today.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Tue Jun 12 06:07:06 2001
Message-Id: <200106121007.GAA05267@space-invaders.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:07:00 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
The odd panel behavior struck me today as well. I had gu logged in on
two machines at once, and when I logged out and back in, it asked me
whether or not I wanted to start another panel, when one was already
running. I said no, and my session continued as normal, with a single
panel visible. Probably unrelated, the background also turned a
hideous shade of green through no fault of mine as far as I could
tell. (It should be the default background, but it's gone through
three different shades now.) Launching the
background-properties-capplet put it back to the nice (darker) shade
of blue, rather than the lighter blue I think gu got when it first
logged in as a new user with a clean set of dotfiles.
Anyway, piecing together the events of that evening from the wtmp
entries on space-invaders, gyruss, and dig-dug, all of which were
running 9.0.6:
- Log in on SGI at 22:13.
- Log off SGI at 22:50.
- Log in on Sun at 22:51.
- Log on Linux at 0:58.
- Log off Linux at 0:59.
- Log on Linux at 1:17
- Log out off Sun at 2:54.
- Log on Sun at 2:54.
- Add launcher to panel.
- Log off Sun at 4:05.
- Log on Sun at 4:05. Problem occurs.
Perhaps a bit more experimentation could make this into a reproducable
test case, if there's a need to verify that the gnome-core upgrade
actually fixes this problem.
-B.
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