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Bug 79149 - Background tool hangs on start
Background tool hangs on start
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Background
1.99
Other Linux
: Urgent critical
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-04-18 19:52 UTC by aaron
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0



Description aaron 2002-04-18 19:52:49 UTC
When trying to set the background, the properties capplet comes up and then
just hangs.

Running control-center2-1.99.6.0.200204180225-0.snap.ximian.1
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-04-18 19:55:22 UTC
<sigh> 
from when I reproduced this in IRC this morning:

<luis> same behavior from command line. I'll try running in gdb.
<luis> (gnome-background-properties:4176): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file
gdkdraw.c: line 329 (gdk_draw_rectangle): assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE
(drawable)' failed
<luis> that error in terminal, FWIW

gdb below:
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<|> #0  0x4087b21b in chunk_free (ar_ptr=0x4092cc20, p=0x816ec04) at
malloc.c:3228
<|> #1  0x4087afa0 in __libc_free (mem=0x816ec18) at malloc.c:3154
<|> #2  0x406bf4f2 in g_free (mem=0x816ec18) at gmem.c:187
<|> #3  0x080544f2 in bg_preferences_finalize (object=0x8155388)
<|>     at preferences.c:207
<|> #4  0x40666d62 in g_object_last_unref (object=0x8155388) at
gobject.c:437
<|> #5  0x4066a205 in g_object_unref (_object=0x8155388) at gobject.c:1321
<|> #6  0x08051bde in bg_applier_apply_prefs (bg_applier=0x8079240, 
<|>     prefs=0x8079138) at applier.c:472
<|> #7  0x0804d06b in applier_set_redraw (set=0x806eb68)
<|>     at background-properties-capplet.c:108
<|> #8  0x0804d5ab in real_realize_cb (set=0x806eb68)
<|>     at background-properties-capplet.c:275
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Comment 2 Jody Goldberg 2002-04-19 16:55:20 UTC
I can replicate this now.
Comment 3 Jody Goldberg 2002-04-19 16:55:59 UTC
fixed in CVS and sun-patches.
I'll look into forward porting the fix to nautilus.