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All Gnome apps hangs when runing in xfce
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RESOLVED: INVALID

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Description dragoran 2004-07-28 09:54:07 CEST
When I start a Gnomeapp like gedit,meld or gnome-terminal it hangs.
It doesn't crash but i can't do anything if i press a key the app does
nothing for 30sec to xx minutes.
Comment 1 dragoran 2004-07-28 09:54:09 CEST
Additional information:

I am using Fedora Core 2.
Someone told me that this bug might be fixed in 4.0.6 so i upgraded, but
unfortunately it didn't fix it.
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2004-08-05 08:02:28 CEST
Odd because:
1) xfce ships with FC2, I guess someone would have notice :)
2) I, like many others, am using gnome apps (from gnome 2.2 to gnome 2.6) w/out
any problem

What does a strace on the process give?

1) determine the PID of the process hanging
2) do a "strace -p #pid"
3) That should tell you what the process is waiting for
Comment 3 dragoran 2004-08-05 08:10:44 CEST
I get this errormessages when starting it form a terminal:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.


** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.


** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.


** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.


** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.


** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.


** (gedit:4877): WARNING **: failure: no device event controller found.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
strace doesn't show anything that hangs
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2004-08-05 08:27:03 CEST
Did you try to post on some gnome user list, or even Fedora lists? It doesn't
look like a bug with xfce.

edited on: 08-05 08:27
Comment 5 dragoran 2004-08-05 09:06:17 CEST
But the Apps are working in kde,gnome,fvwm2,enlightenment and icewm. the
problem is only in xfce
Comment 6 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2004-08-05 09:10:47 CEST
Do you have the same warning messages with other environments? I'm sorry, I
need some better caracterization from your part.
Comment 7 dragoran 2004-08-05 09:20:33 CEST
No.
I only get this warnings in xfce. but only with gnome apps gtk apps that
doesn't require gnome are working fine (Firefox,rox,thunderbird).
I have tried to start at-spi-registryd in xfce (because its causing the
warings) but it don't start.
#:/usr/libexec/at-spi-registryd
** Message: Could not complete key grab: grab already in use.
Comment 8 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2004-08-05 09:26:31 CEST
I doubt at-spi-registryd is the cause, and the grab failed is definitely not a
problem.
Comment 9 dragoran 2004-08-05 09:30:30 CEST
what else can be the causing this?
Comment 10 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2004-08-05 09:37:02 CEST
I do not know, I don't understand why it works for everybody else but you, I
don't understand why those apps don't map, and why strace doesn't show any
hang in the process.

- Do you use a standard FC2 install?
- Did you upgrade to some pre-released gnome version (2.7.x)?
- Did you try to modify the icon theme, from the xfce ui setting?
- Can you to kill the mcs manager (killall xfce-mcs-manager) and relaunch one
of the gnome app that hangs?
Comment 11 dragoran 2004-08-05 09:51:31 CEST
1: yes (i have upgraded to 4.0.6 from rawhide but it did'nt fix the bug)
2: no
3: doesn't help
4: doesn't help
I tried as a different user and everything worked fine.
Then i deleted the .xfce4 directory form my home dir, but it doesn't solve the
problem. why?
Comment 12 dragoran 2004-08-05 09:58:45 CEST
After playing around with the gnome settings the apps works fine with my
userprofile.
Comment 13 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2004-08-05 10:15:31 CEST
You mean the bug is gone after you played with gnome settings? Could you give
us an idea of what setting, for the record?
Comment 14 dragoran 2004-08-05 11:19:31 CEST
I have deaktivated everything in gnome-at-properties
Comment 15 Jasper Huijsmans editbugs 2004-09-20 19:25:31 CEST
Seems to have fixed itself...
Comment 16 Jasper Huijsmans editbugs 2004-09-20 19:26:15 CEST
No similar reports and this one is solved by the reporter.
Comment 17 Nick Schermer editbugs 2009-07-15 09:27:49 CEST
Moving invalid bugs to the /dev/null product.

Bug #279

Reported by:
dragoran
Reported on: 2004-07-28
Last modified on: 2009-07-15

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Xfce Bug Triage
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