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System: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic armel with lxpanel 0.5.3 on Chinese handheld

all worked well until I installed some software which replaced some system libraries (but may be this was not even the reason of faults)

by default lxpanel starts with panel config stored in /home/user/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels - and it starts as

@lxpanel --profile LXDE

in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

now lxpanel crashes and then LXDE tries start it again and again and again...

first I commented first plugin call in panel settings file - this is menu plugin call, it looks rather standard - fortunately this allowed lxpanel run but without menu of course, it appeared on screen with all my plugins except menu

then I killed lxpanel process manually, changed panel config back to normal (uncommented menu plugin start) and started lxpanel manually as user like this:

$lxpanel --log 5

I've got just only "Segmentation fault" message and nothing else

then I started lxpanel from xterm being logged as root (not just by sudo, but as root exactly) and without any options - lxpanel appeared on screen with some sort of default plugins - there were no my plugins (battery meter, keyboard control so on) but menu appeared (with default icon, not mine) and worked well (that means menu files are good)

but I didn't find any panel file in /root/.config/lxpanel/default directory... manufacturer removed all rarely used files to free up more space on internal flash memory - but where from lxpanel took config for "root" user? or that was just a sorta of "build-in default config"? how can I save this default config to be changed later?

finally I started lxpanel from xterm being logged as user but with

sudo lxpanel --profile LXDE

suddenly it started with my menu! even my redefined menu icon appeared - but some settings looked like as root settings and unfortunately some my plugins didn't start - in xterm I see error messages about plugins: battery meter, keyboard indicator

ANYBODY HELP unravel this weird situation...

- as user lxpanel crashes on menu plugin
- as root lxpanel works well but with unfounded config
- as user with sudo lxpanel works with tuned menu but without some added plugins

Now fixed part of problem - plugins recovered. I can get entire panel working if start it as

@sudo lxpanel --profile LXDE

from /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

and menu appears and works well - except I'm always root...

but if I start it without sudo, as user - than it crashes on menu

What have I change in user's settings to allow panel work always?

Hi,

if it's working as root, it's mostly a permission problem.

A rather rapid way:
Have you tried to delete all user config files of LXPanel and reinstall it?

maces

It's quite possible that the configuration for the failing user is corrupted, and the configuration for root is not, and that's why it is working, rather than a permissions issue.
rm -rf .config/lxpanel of the failing user should get you back to where you can recreate.

unfortunately I can't reinstall lxpanel - it is on chinese MID and manufacturer uses redesigned plugins for battery, keyboard so on

but they didn't put lxpanel*armel.deb package with it or on any repo... I can only reflash /root part or both /root and /home, but I've already tuned a LOT OFF things to not reflash it

for while I have work as root cause I do many settings and tunes, but next I'll try recover lxpanel settings from root copy

thanx for ideas

I had a similar problem running Lubuntu 11.04. Several times. "Marty Jack"s solution worked brilliantly, at least for me:

Marty Jack wrote:It's quite possible that the configuration for the failing user is corrupted, and the configuration for root is not, and that's why it is working, rather than a permissions issue.
rm -rf .config/lxpanel of the failing user should get you back to where you can recreate.

hopefully this helps.