Comment 15 for bug 1675888

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Buzea Bogdan (bogdanke8) wrote : Re: [Bug 1675888] Re: various applets occasionally crash on transparent panel

Awesome, thanks!

Pe 25 nov. 2017 05:20, "Simon Quigley" <email address hidden> a scris:

> Uploaded.
>
> Thanks!
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1675888
>
> Title:
> various applets occasionally crash on transparent panel
>
> Status in mate-panel package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in mate-panel source package in Zesty:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
>
> Almost all panel applets occasionally crash if the panel is transparent.
> Usually it happens on session start. It affects all panels that are on
> the
> screen, e.g. if you have top and bottom panels, then the applets from
> both
> panels would crash.
>
> The patch attached to this report fixes the issue.
>
> The fix is already present in Artful and tested by developers and users.
> Would be nice to backport it to Zesty as well, as it's really a major
> inconvenience for users who prefer to have a transparent panel.
>
> [Test Case]
>
> If you see the applets crashes on session start, then the issue is
> already
> reproduced. Otherwise you can try moving transparency slider in the panel
> properties very fast back and forth - after some tries it will cause some
> applets to crash. It's been confirmed that it's the same crash as happens
> on session start, with the same backtrace and the same root cause.
>
> [Regression Potential]
>
> None. All that's done is to replace the direct call of cairo function
> with
> the call to GDK's cairo support function. It proved to be the proper way
> to
> do it.
>
> [Other Info]
>
> The patch is included into the debdiff attached to this report.
>
> The debdiff contains patches to fix bug 1675888, bug 1676840, bug
> 1690517,
> bug 1695648. See other reports for the corresponding SRU templates.
>
> Note that the debdiff attached to bug 1690517 is a separate one for
> Artful.
>
> [Original Description]
>
> crash on testing shortcuts: Ctrl+ Alt +Numpad
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
> Package: mate-panel 1.18.0-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-13.15-generic 4.10.1
> Uname: Linux 4.10.0-13-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: MATE
> Date: Fri Mar 24 20:13:18 2017
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/mate-panel/notification-area-applet
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-28 (268 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20160420.1)
> ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/mate-panel/notification-area-applet
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANGUAGE=ro_RO
> LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8
> Signal: 5
> SourcePackage: mate-panel
> StacktraceTop:
> ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
> ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
> _XReply () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
> XGetGeometry () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6
> mate_panel_applet_get_background () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> libmate-panel-applet-4.so.1
> Title: notification-area-applet crashed with signal 5 in _XReply()
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-03-17 (6 days ago)
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> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=mate-panel;
> component=universe; status=Fix Released; importance=Low; assignee=None;
> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; distroseries=zesty;
> sourcepackage=mate-panel; component=universe; status=Triaged;
> importance=Low; assignee=None;
> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: amd64 apport-crash patch ubuntu-mate-zesty-sru zesty
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