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Re: metacity2.14.5 under etch: keyboard lockup when opening a window

From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran(at)gmail.com>
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 10:34:55 EDT


Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use gnome+metacity in etch.
>
> I am experiencing random lockups of the display since a few hours.
> Opening a window seems to trigger this. So far it has happened when
> launching gvim, iceweasel and gnome-terminal (not everytime). What
> happens in such cases is that the newly opened window is left without
> the window-manger's borders. Keyboard locks up. Mouse responds to
> motion, but mouse-clicks do not work. I am able to ssh from a remote
> machine and kill metacity which seems to bring everything back to normal.

Upgrading metacity to 2.18.5 (testing) appears to have fixed the problem. There has not been any lockup since then.

I never managed to figure out what went wrong though.

>
> There does not seem to be any bug filed against metacity at
> bugs.debian.org, so I am not sure if it related to metacity.
>
> The only change I have made to the system today is to upgrade icedove to
> the testing release and install qemu.
>
> Has anybody experienced a similar problem? Is there something I might
> have done that is causing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Raj Kiran
>
> PS: Recent packages in last 2 days as reported by dpkg-www
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version
> +++-==============================-======================
> ii bochsbios 2.3-2etch1
> ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6
> ii dash 0.5.3-7
> ii debmirror 20060907.1
> rc glabels 2.1.3-1
> ii gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.12.1-1
> ii icedove 2.0.0.6-1
> ii icedove-gnome-support 2.0.0.6-1
> ii iceweasel 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
> ii iceweasel-gnome-support 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1
> ii initrd-tools 0.1.84.2
> ii libcupsys2 1.3.2-1
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1
> ii libgtk2.0-common 2.12.1-1
> ii libgtk2.0-dev 2.12.1-1
> ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1
> ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2
> ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-1
> ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-1
> ii libxdamage-dev 1.1.1-3
> ii libxdamage1 1.1.1-3
> ii openhackware 0.4.1-2
> rc openoffice.org-base 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-calc 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-core 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-gcj 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-impress 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-math 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> rc openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3
> rc openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1
> ii proll 18-2
> ii python-wxgtk2.6 2.6.3.2.2-1
> ii qemu 0.8.2-4etch1
> ii systemimager-doc 3.6.3dfsg1-3
> ii vgabios 0.6a-1
> ii x11proto-damage-dev 1.1.0-2
>
> 38 packages
>

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