Re: Installing x11/mate-panel 1.28.0 crashes some mate-applets

From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:03:09 UTC 
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:57 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 10:06 PM Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The recent mate-panel update to 1.28.0 causes the
>> notification-area-applet, clock-applet and window-switch-applet to
>> crash. ie:
>>
>> Mar 29 17:51:03 jade kernel: pid 4214 (wnck-applet), jid 0, uid 1000:
>> exited on signal 5 (core dumped)
>> Mar 29 17:51:03 jade kernel: pid 4225 (notification-area-a), jid 0, uid
>> 1000: exited on signal 5 (core dumped)
>> Mar 29 17:51:03 jade kernel: pid 4227 (clock-applet), jid 0, uid 1000:
>> exited on signal 5 (core dumped)
>>
>> Reverting to 1.26.2_4 restores functionality.
>>
>> I suspect that x11/mate-applets also needs to be updated to 1.28, in
>> sync with the mate-panel update to 1.28.
>>
>> Cheers.
>> --
>> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
>>
>
> I can only say that I updated  mate-panel-1.28 a couple of days ago and
> clock works and wnck-applet is part of mate-panel, not mate-applets.
> > pkg info mate-panel\*
> mate-panel-1.28.0,1
> > pkg info mate-appl\*
> mate-applets-1.26.0_5
> > pkg which /usr/local/libexec/wnck-applet
> /usr/local/libexec/wnck-applet was installed by package mate-panel-1.28.0,1
>

Now that I've rebooted my system, I saw the problem. It is definitely
x11/mate-panel. Rolling the port back to 1.26 (
f1d402f9c7ce99d9a23a55c9a6406b6cfb2fe0ce
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/x11/mate-panel?id=f1d402f9c7ce99d9a23a55c9a6406b6cfb2fe0ce>)
fixes almost everything. net/libmatewether has been broken for a while and
almost certainly unrelated.
-- 
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