GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 103303
console window hangs each time it is launched
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-terminal Description: Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80333 for the original bug report. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-01-12 21:16 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, hp@redhat.com.
Copying stuff in from original report: ************************************** Opened by tbooher@hotmail.com (Todd Booher) on 2002-12-24 11:54 From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: Each time I launch the gnome terminal it hangs with no prompt visible. During this time the whole box is very sluggish. Eventually I can kill the app and everything is fine. This is on a clean install of phoebe as a personal desktop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log in to box as root 2.Click on gnome terminal icon to launch 3.Window opens but no prompt visible Actual Results: app hangs Expected Results: app works Additional info: ------- Additional Comment #1 From Todd Booher on 2002-12-24 12:28 ------- This instance of Phoebe is running under vmware 3.2, build 2230. ------- Additional Comment #2 From Havoc Pennington on 2002-12-24 13:29 ------- As far as I know it works on things that are not vmware. You might try "strace -t -o /tmp/output -f gnome-terminal" or something along those lines and then "tail -f /tmp/output" while it's stuck, and see which lines repeat, or if it's even making progress. ------- Additional Comment #3 From Todd Booher on 2002-12-24 14:26 ------- strace does not appear to be loaded on my system. Is that a separate rpm I need to install? If so, is it on one of the cd's or in rawhide? Thanks ------- Additional Comment #4 From Havoc Pennington on 2002-12-24 14:40 ------- Oh, you have 8.0, I thought you were trying the beta. First thing to check if it's 8.0 is whether it works in the Phoebe beta. It's probably different/better. Installing the beta is sort of an undertaking though so don't feel like you have to check yourself. Anyhow, yes strace is on the CD in its own rpm. ------- Additional Comment #5 From Todd Booher on 2002-12-24 14:43 ------- I am running the beta but it appears the strace is not loaded. I'll search the cd's for the rpm. Thanks ------- Additional Comment #6 From Todd Booher on 2002-12-29 02:26 ------- Here's the error message launching it from xterm: Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0". Thanks to warren for helping me track this down. ------- Additional Comment #7 From Warren Togami on 2002-12-29 02:29 ------- Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0". The sluggish system behavior is consistent with what some applications do when RENDER isn't available. I've seen wine, earlier KDE builds, and flash5 cause this problem with 100% CPU usage when it didn't properly handle the lack of RENDER. All of these apps were later fixed to fall back gracefully. ------- Additional Comment #8 From Felipe Alfaro Solana on 2002-12-29 07:24 ------- Please, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80414 for a very very close report to this :-) ------- Additional Comment #9 From Havoc Pennington on 2003-01-12 22:05 ------- Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103303
Can't this be closed? The hang is probably due to the 100% CPU because of the missing RENDER extension. Quoted comment #7 says the applications can be fixed against a missing RENDER extension, but can that really be changed in gnome-terminal? In the following bug someone says it should be fixed in XFree86 4.3.0: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80414
This seems to have been fixed at a lower level... Closing.