Bug 72658

Summary:	Sawfish menus stop working after a while
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ted Clark <bison>
Component:	sawfish	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	bos
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Description Ted Clark 2002-08-26 13:32:32 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408

Description of problem:
The sawfish window/root window menus stop working after a while.  The Gnome
panel Main Menu -> Extras -> Preferences -> Sawfish window manager menus
continue to function.  I have to kill and restart sawfish to get the menus
working again.  If I start sawfish from a terminal so that output goes to stderr
I get the message "Error: Menu is already active" when I middle-click the
desktop or right-click the close or minimize buttons on a window (crux theme). 
I am able to duplicate this problem without Gnome by starting sawfish from a
$HOME/.Xclients file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use the sawfish root window menu and window menus for a while.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  After a while the menus stop working; the menu is not mapped,
and the message "Error: Menu is already active" is sent to stderr.

Expected Results:  The menus should continue working for the duration of the
session.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bryan O'Sullivan 2002-12-10 05:54:52 UTC

More details: the sawfish-menu process somehow gets into an unkillable state,
and has to be nuked with a "kill -9".

Comment 2 Bryan O'Sullivan 2002-12-10 05:56:19 UTC

I forgot to mention in the earlier comment that killing the recalcitrant
sawfish-menu process unwedges things.  Unfortunately, killall doesn't find the
process, so I have to use ps and kill manually.  Ugh.

Comment 3 Ted Clark 2002-12-10 14:10:28 UTC

bos, try 'killall rep'

Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 04:02:19 UTC

Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103325

May be fixed in Sawfish 1.2 though