[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000279]: All Gnome apps hangs when runing in xfce

Thu Aug 5 12:15:31 CEST 2004

A BUGNOTE has been added to this bug.
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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=279
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Reporter:                   Dragoran
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000279
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-07-28 09:54 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-08-05 10:15 GMT
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Summary:                    All Gnome apps hangs when runing in xfce
Description: 
When I start a Gnomeapp like gedit,meld or gnome-terminal it hangs.
It doesn't crash but i can't do anything if i press a key the app does
nothing for 30sec  to xx minutes.
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 olivier - 2004-08-05 08:02 GMT 
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Odd because:
1) xfce ships with FC2, I guess someone would have notice :)
2) I, like many others, am using gnome apps (from gnome 2.2 to gnome 2.6)
w/out any problem

What does a strace on the process give?

1) determine the PID of the process hanging
2) do a "strace -p #pid" 
3) That should tell you what the process is waiting for

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 Dragoran - 2004-08-05 08:10 GMT 
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I get this errormessages when starting it form a terminal:
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* (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.

** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.

** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.
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strace doesn't show anything that hangs

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 olivier - 2004-08-05 08:27 GMT 
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Did you try to post on some gnome user list, or even Fedora lists? It
doesn't look like a bug with xfce.

edited on: 08-05 08:27

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 Dragoran - 2004-08-05 09:06 GMT 
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But the Apps are working in kde,gnome,fvwm2,enlightenment and icewm. the
problem is only in xfce

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 olivier - 2004-08-05 09:10 GMT 
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Do you have the same warning messages with other environments? I'm sorry, I
need some better caracterization from your part.

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 Dragoran - 2004-08-05 09:20 GMT 
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No.
I only get this warnings in xfce. but only with gnome apps gtk apps that
doesn't require gnome are working fine (Firefox,rox,thunderbird).
I have tried to start at-spi-registryd in xfce (because its causing the
warings) but it don't start.
#:/usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd
** Message: Could not complete key grab: grab already in use.

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 olivier - 2004-08-05 09:26 GMT 
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I doubt at-spi-registryd is the cause, and the grab failed is definitely
not a problem.

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 Dragoran - 2004-08-05 09:30 GMT 
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what else can be the causing this?

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 olivier - 2004-08-05 09:37 GMT 
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I do not know, I don't understand why it works for everybody else but you,
I don't understand why those apps don't map, and why strace doesn't show
any hang in the process.

- Do you use a standard FC2 install?
- Did you upgrade to some pre-released gnome version (2.7.x)?
- Did you try to modify the icon theme, from the xfce ui setting?
- Can you to kill the mcs manager (killall xfce-mcs-manager) and relaunch
one of the gnome app that hangs?

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 Dragoran - 2004-08-05 09:51 GMT 
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1: yes (i have upgraded to 4.0.6 from rawhide but it did'nt fix the bug)
2: no
3: doesn't help
4: doesn't help
I tried as a different user and everything worked fine.
Then i deleted the .xfce4 directory form my home dir, but it doesn't solve
the problem. why?

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 Dragoran - 2004-08-05 09:58 GMT 
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After playing around with the gnome settings the apps works fine with my
userprofile.

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 olivier - 2004-08-05 10:15 GMT 
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You mean the bug is gone after you played with gnome settings? Could you
give us an idea of what setting, for the record?