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When running Eclipse IDE, switching Desktop causes hardlock
Status:
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
Severity:
critical

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Description Chris 2005-02-21 16:45:58 CET
Often when running Eclipse IDE on Xfce, switching to another desktop and then
switching back to the desktop running Eclipse causes Xfce to freeze. It appears
that either the window redraw hangs or as its redrawing, Eclipse hangs and Xfce
is waiting for it to finish. In either case the mouse can still move but nothing
is clickable and keyboard short cuts no longer work. Ctrl-Alt-BS also does
nothing, only option is to reboot or SSH in from another machine and kill X itself.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Eclipse IDE in one workspace
2. Switch Workspace using shortcut keys and then back (rapidly works better) 
3. Lock up occurs

Actual Results:  
The mouse can still move but Xfce doesn't respond when another deskop or app is
clicked. Short-cut keys no longer work, Ctrl-Alt-BS does not escape from X as it
should.

Expected Results:  
Even if Eclipse (or any other app) crashes, Xfce should be able to respond so
the app can be killed or X can be restarted correctly.

My configuration is:
Athlon 1.2 Ghz w/ 256MB RAM
Fedora (FC2) (2.6.10-1.9_FC2)
GTK+ 2.4

When the hang occurs no errors seem to be printed to any logs
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2005-02-21 21:45:31 CET
Frankly, it doesn't sound like a bug in Xfce:

1) Xfce itself can't freeze your computer,
2) If you need to reboot, it looks like a X driver bug,
2) I'm using Eclipse everyday without any problem on several different systems.
Comment 2 Chris 2005-02-21 22:04:03 CET
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Frankly, it doesn't sound like a bug in Xfce:

1) Xfce itself can't freeze your computer,
2) If you need to reboot, it looks like a X driver bug,
2) I'm using Eclipse everyday without any problem on several different systems.

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The computer itself doesn't freeze, just X. I can log in via SSH on another
machine and kill X without problems.

It could be the drivers, I'm using newer (newest? haven't checked in a few weeks
so not sure) drivers from NVidia, with a GeForce 2 card. I posted here because I
also use Blackbox WM and have not experienced this problem while using it with
Eclipse. Also I Googled for anyone else having similar problems and I found a
lot of people with problems with hanging on bootup that might be related to the
driver, but nothing about hangs after everything had been running smoothly.
 

Comment 3 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2005-02-21 22:11:39 CET
Odd. Do you have composite enabled?
Comment 4 Chris 2005-02-21 22:23:11 CET
Composite is not enabled.
Comment 5 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2005-02-22 18:59:27 CET
I have no clue of what could be wrong. You may want to try an update and see if
that helps.

http://www.xfce.org/~olivier/preview/xfwm4-4.2.CVS20050220.tar.gz
Comment 6 Jasper Huijsmans editbugs 2005-12-21 09:17:25 CET
No reply in almost 10 months. I'm resolving this as WORKSFORME.

Bug #794

Reported by:
Chris
Reported on: 2005-02-21
Last modified on: 2009-07-15

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Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
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