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Bug 680356 - crashes if unable to create a root surface for background
crashes if unable to create a root surface for background
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on: 680354
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-07-21 06:05 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2012-07-21 15:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Don't use wallpaper surface if it NULL (1.44 KB, patch)
2012-07-21 06:16 UTC, William Jon McCann 		committed Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2012-07-21 06:05:31 UTC 
Maximum number of clients reached
(nautilus:11353): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Unable to open display ':5' when
setting background pixmap


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
cairo_surface_set_user_data (surface=surface@entry=0x0,
key=key@entry=0x7ffff7554970, user_data=0xc0f340,
    destroy=0x7ffff69ecd80 <gdk_rgba_free>) at cairo-surface.c:794
794         if (CAIRO_REFERENCE_COUNT_IS_INVALID (&surface->ref_count))

+ Trace 230549

  • #0 cairo_surface_set_user_data
    at cairo-surface.c line 794
  • #1 gnome_bg_create_surface
    at gnome-bg.c line 1142
  • #2 nautilus_desktop_background_ensure_realized
    at nautilus-desktop-background.c line 240
  • #3 nautilus_desktop_background_set_up_widget
    at nautilus-desktop-background.c line 305
  • #4 g_closure_invoke
    at gclosure.c line 777 






Comment 1


William Jon McCann





          2012-07-21 06:16:59 UTC
        



Created attachment 219371 [details] [review]
Don't use wallpaper surface if it NULL






Comment 2


Cosimo Cecchi





          2012-07-21 14:53:57 UTC
        



Review of attachment 219371 [details] [review]:

Looks good...what did you do to make this happen?






Comment 3


William Jon McCann





          2012-07-21 15:08:08 UTC
        



I think what happened was that gnome-desktop was interpreting the file monitor "changed" unconditionally and I added ACCESSED to it. It kept updating the root pixmap and I guess leaking it every time and it started to fail. When it failed we started to fail as well.






Comment 4


William Jon McCann





          2012-07-21 15:09:06 UTC
        



Also see bug 680354.