Ubuntu
metacity package

metacity 2.14.5 freezes desktop

Bug #65025 reported by Vítězslav Kotrla
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Metacity
Invalid
High
metacity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: metacity

We are running VMWare browser appliances (Dapper Drake). After last upgrade to metacity 1:2.14.5-0ubuntu1 desktop freezes after a few minutes. Using Alt+F2 and killall metacity "resolves" the problem temporarily, but in next few minutes metacity freezes again. After 3 attempts even Alt+F2 stops working.

Downgrade to 1:2.14.3-0ubuntu2 is stable, our users report no metacity freezes so far (2 days).

Also reported to gnome bugzilla, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361097.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Can you check .xsession-errors for any interesting output?

Changed in metacity:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Vítězslav Kotrla (vitko) wrote :

Too bad, no traces at all. Is there any way to start metacity in more verbose or debugging mode?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

edgy has metacity 2.16, not 2.14. Are you using dapper? Could you get a backtrace of metacity after freezing?
- gdb $(pidof metacity)
(gdb) thread apply all bt

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Vítězslav Kotrla (vitko) wrote :

Oops, your right, dapper, of course (too many virtual machines around).

description: updated
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Vítězslav Kotrla (vitko) wrote :

Please see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361097

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Changed in metacity:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in metacity:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

upstream bug has been rejected, not a metacity bug apparently, marking the distro task as rejected too

Changed in metacity:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in metacity:
importance: Unknown → High
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