show stopper in xfwm4

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Sep 1 23:32:16 CEST 2003


Edscott,

Well xfwm4 will core if there is a bug, otherwise kill -11 its pid and
you should get a core...

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 23:18, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:38, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Hi Edscott,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:07, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > I came across a showstopper in xfwm4. On clicking the [-] from the title
> > > bar, I doubleclicked simultaneously with the mouse move and the window
> > > did not close nor did the menu appear. 
> > 
> > I cannot reproduce that here. And I hardly see how this can happen given
> > the code that handle this in xfwm4. This could come from gtk itself.
> > 
> > Where you rinning from a remote display? What's your gtk version?
> 
> I've tried to reproduce it but without luck. I was running from local
> display, with gtk 2.2.2.
> 
> > 
> > > Xfwm4 went into an endless loop.
> > > Output on terminal on which X was running was:
> > > 
> > > Max = 1249
> > 
> > That's not from xfwm4 at least.
> > 
> > > printed about twice a second.
> > > Apparently the maximize menu entry got a signal before it was supposed
> > > to and xfwm4 looped trying to figure out the maximization borders. It is
> > > very rare and difficult to reproduce, but it will force an X shutdown.
> > 
> > That doesn't make much sense. If you are able to reproduce the problem,
> > a gdb on the running process would tell where it is looping...
> 
> >From Bernhard mail, the loop text was not from xfwm4, so the bug is most
> probably a race condition in gtk. Is there a way to signal xfwm4 so that
> it will drop a core file? That would come in handy to pinpoint the place
> where xfwm4 could be stopping. 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Edscott
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
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