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Bug 615635 - large window causes crash & restart loop
large window causes crash & restart loop
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 722266
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: window-management
3.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-04-13 11:04 UTC by Tuomas Kuosmanen
Modified: 2016-01-26 18:29 UTC
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Description Tuomas Kuosmanen 2010-04-13 11:04:49 UTC 
So I made a typo in my commandline and ended up starting a pretty big xephyr window:

Xephyr :3 -screen 86480x16

This caused a crash in metacity and gnome-session tried to respawn it which ended in a crash & restart loop.

I guess the large window size causes some kind of a buffer overrun somewhere..?
Comment 1 Tuomas Kuosmanen 2014-04-17 09:37:29 UTC 
Hmm. This actually still happens. I just get a "OOPS something went wrong :/" -greeting and a button to log out, instead of a respawn loop.

Moving to gnome-shell component, as I don't know if this is metacity or mutter or what, maybe someone can help me point this to the right bucket?
Comment 2 Tuomas Kuosmanen 2016-01-25 13:24:43 UTC 
I guess not, but the "window management" component looks a good choice for this.

Now I don't get a crash loop, because Xephyr itself dumps core, and thus gnome-shell / mutter can recover from it.
Comment 3 Rui Matos 2016-01-26 18:29:29 UTC 
This was likely the same as bug 722266 .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 722266 ***