Bug 108199 – Session manager crash

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Bug 108199 - Session manager crash


Summary:	Session manager crash


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	gnome-session
Classification:	Core
Component:	gnome-session
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Session Maintainers
QA Contact:	Session Maintainers

URL:
Whiteboard:	AES[BIGBADBUG]

Duplicates:	110699 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2003-03-12 15:12 UTC by Andrew Sobala
Modified:	2004-12-22 21:47 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	---

Attachments
clear list when it is no longer needed (1.08 KB, patch) 2003-05-20 20:01 UTC, Jon Svendsen	none	Details \| Review

Description Andrew Sobala 2003-03-12 15:12:13 UTC

Package: gnome-session
Severity: critical
Version: GNOME2.2.1 2.3.1
os_details: Gnome.Org
Synopsis: Session manager crash
Bugzilla-Product: gnome-session
Bugzilla-Component: gnome-session
BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.2.0.1)
Description:
CVS head. After pressing the logout button then cancel twice, the
session manager crashed. Woohoo.


Debugging Information:

Backtrace was generated from '/gnome/install/bin/gnome-session'

[New Thread 8192 (LWP 1011)]
0x420ae169 in wait4 () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6

+ Trace 34805

Thread 1 (Thread 8192 (LWP 1011))

#0 wait4
from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1 __DTOR_END__
from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2 waitpid
from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3 libgnomeui_segv_handle
at gnome-ui-init.c line 646
#4 __pthread_sighandler
from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#5 <signal handler called>
#6 gdk_event_translate
at gdkevents-x11.c line 741
#7 _gdk_events_queue
at gdkevents-x11.c line 1936
#8 gdk_event_dispatch
at gdkevents-x11.c line 1996
#9 g_main_dispatch
at gmain.c line 1653
#10 g_main_context_dispatch
at gmain.c line 2197
#11 g_main_context_iterate
at gmain.c line 2278
#12 g_main_loop_run
at gmain.c line 2498
#13 gtk_main
at gtkmain.c line 1093
#14 main
at main.c line 366
#15 __libc_start_main
from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#0 wait4
from /lib/i686/libc.so.6





------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-03-12 10:12 -------

Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-session-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.

Comment 1 Andrew Sobala 2003-03-12 15:24:37 UTC

Reproducable

Comment 2 Andrew Sobala 2003-05-19 15:49:57 UTC

*** Bug 110699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jon Svendsen 2003-05-20 20:00:09 UTC

this is caused by the stale contents of an internal GList (containing
the GdkWindows used for fading out)  not being removed and thus messing
 up  multiple invocations. The attached patch should fix it.

Comment 4 Jon Svendsen 2003-05-20 20:01:05 UTC

Created attachment 16680 [details] [review]
clear list when  it is no longer needed

Comment 5 Mark McLoughlin 2003-05-21 10:14:26 UTC

Excellant stuff Jon. Thanks a bunch. I've committed the patch to HEAD:

2003-05-20  Jon Svendsen  <jon-sven@frisurf.no>
                                                                     
                           
        * logout.c: (hide_fadeout_windows): Fix crash on multiple
        invocations (#108199)