FS#8167 - Closing Epiphany while opening Gnome theme manager crashes X

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Sunday, 30 September 2007, 02:32 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 08:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

If you start gnome-theme-thumbnailer while Epiphany is running, it may start up more slowly than is normal. A user might be inclined to think this is because of Epiphany's resource usage, and quit the browser if they weren't actively using it at the time. However, closing Epiphany while the theme manager is opening will cause X to exit.

Furthermore, if GDM is being used, it won't restart Gnome properly afterwards - it will restart X, but the Gnome session won't start, leaving the user with a blank screen. I'm not yet sure if that's a separate bug in GDM, or if there's some kind of overrun or something going on here that's trashing things.

(I've labeled this critical because it struck me that, depending on what this is, it might be a security hazard. I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to be nasty.)

Additional info:
epiphany 2.20.0-1, gnome-control-center 2.20.0-1, xorg-server 1.4-3


Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Epiphany.
2. Open the theme manager (System>Preferences>Appearance). *While it is opening*, close the Epiphany window. X should exit almost immediately.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 08:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Sunday, 30 September 2007, 22:06 GMT
Update: just had this happen to me again with only the browser window open; it seems that it's an X11 bug, and just occurs under certain circumstances (including the ones mentioned above).

I've been experimenting with EXA recently; I'll turn that off and see if it has anything to do with this. Could be that a new bug has been introduced.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 01 October 2007, 08:16 GMT
Be aware that the only thing where I've seen good EXA testing on is the Intel drivers (I see some regular blog posts from a cairo developer about performance testing on xorg + xf86-video-intel + G965). AFAIK you're still using an unichrome, where enabling EXA can lead to these things.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Monday, 01 October 2007, 18:09 GMT
Nope, using Intel now (cheap laptop supplanted cheaper desktop), which was why I was experimenting with EXA.

Since disabling it I haven't gotten this again, but it's sporadic so I'll wait a bit longer before calling it an EXA bug.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 27 October 2007, 11:55 GMT
What's the status with the current xorg-server and EXA? There's a patch in the old version that broke EXA, the new version contains a new patch and should be fixed.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 00:47 GMT
Apparently fixed.

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