GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 333276
gnome-theme-manager crashes with xgl/compiz
Last modified: 2006-07-25 09:46:25 UTC
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.04 (dapper) Package: gnome-themes Severity: Normal Version: GNOME2.13.92 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Ubuntu Synopsis: gnome-theme-manager bug Bugzilla-Product: gnome-themes Bugzilla-Component: General Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.13.90) Description: Description of the crash: Reboot of gnome-theme-manager when i have select a new themes I work on dapper with xgl nvidia geforce 6 Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. install glx 2. download theme on gnome art web site 3. drag and drop the .tar.gz on gnome-theme-manager 4. Change themes Expected Results: How often does this happen? Additional Information: Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/gnome-theme-manager' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 1997260480 (LWP 8435)] (no debugging symbols found) 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ Trace 66661
Thread 1 (Thread 1997260480 (LWP 8435))
------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2006-03-03 17:18 ------- Bugreport had an attachment. This cannot be imported to Bugzilla. Contact bugmaster@gnome.org if you are willing to write a patch for this.
*** Bug 333305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 333825 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 335775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 336135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #4) > *** Bug 336135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** > just to confirm i am using Xgl and Compiz . If i use the fast-user-switch to get a new session it doesn't use the 3d and compositing , this seems to make the theme-manager work perfectly for that user.
*** Bug 337667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming bug due to the many duplicates. Also retitling to better reflect it being caused by xgl or compiz.
*** Bug 338522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm experiencing the crash when merely executing gnome-theme-manager. Ubuntu Dapper Drake AMD64 3500+ 1 GB RAM 1 GB swap file (yeah, file, not a partition) nVidia 6600 GT using restricted (proprietary) Xorg module
*** Bug 342718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 343626 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately, that stack trace is not very useful in determining the cause of the crash. Can you get us one with debugging symbols? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do so.
*** Bug 346600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirmed. This has something to do with the theme manager trying to retrieve theme settings from the window manager, but the window manager doesn't supply them. The following patch prevents the theme manager from attempting to load the current window manager theme name from an unknown window manager
Created attachment 69012 [details] [review] Don't attempt to load window manager theme name from an unkown window mnager
Thomas, any reason why you don't commit that patch?
I was hoping to ask some of the original theme manager authors why the crash occurs before I use this fix. However, I haven't had time, so I will commit this now.
Fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major release. Thank you for your bug report.