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Flashlight in cheese prevents xfwm from work
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED

Comments

Description Yan Pas 2015-04-12 13:17:20 CEST
Steps to reporduce:
start cheese
turn the flashlight in settings on
turn on WM effects (compositing)
take a shot: mouse unable to click on window buttons and to move windows

version xfwm 4.12.0git.badd196
cheese version 3.10.2
Video - Nvidia 331. ForceCompositingPipeline = on
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2015-04-12 18:18:41 CEST
Cannot reproduce, works fine here.

Looks like a bug in cheese that keeps an active grab on the pointer, not xfwm4 fault.

What makes you think it's a bug in xfwm4?
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2015-04-12 19:03:01 CEST
Please connect remotely to the host (ssh) and attach gdb to the xfwm4 process and capture a few backtrace while the problem occurs.

Ideally, capture a few backtraces taken every few seconds.

(gdb) bt
...
(gdb) cont
<ctrl-c>
(gdb) bt
...
(gdb) cont
<ctrl-c>
(gdb) bt
...
Comment 3 Yan Pas 2015-04-12 21:50:39 CEST
SSH: "gdb xwfm4 export DISPLAY=:0" says "No stack" after entering bt. Maybe I do something wrong.
Tested on another user, with xfwm from trusty ppa - the bug exists. Maybe it is cheese's bug.
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2015-04-13 09:12:56 CEST
(In reply to yanpaso from comment #3)
> SSH: "gdb xwfm4 export DISPLAY=:0" says "No stack" after entering bt. Maybe
> I do something wrong.

You don't need to run xfwm4, you need to attach to the running process.

gdb -p $(pidof xfwm4)

> Tested on another user, with xfwm from trusty ppa - the bug exists. Maybe it
> is cheese's bug.

Could be pretty much anything, that's why it must be investigated.
Comment 5 Yan Pas 2015-04-13 09:34:10 CEST
Created attachment 6192 
gdb ssh

This is what gdb printed after taking screenshot with flashlight
Comment 6 Yan Pas 2017-10-17 23:55:34 CEST
Cannot reproduce on updated linux OS
Comment 7 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-29 12:04:45 CEST
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Bug #11815

Reported by:
Yan Pas
Reported on: 2015-04-12
Last modified on: 2020-05-29

People

Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
CC List:
1 user

Version

Version:
unspecified

Attachments

gdb ssh (186.37 KB, image/png)
2015-04-13 09:34 CEST , Yan Pas
no flags

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