Bug 75142

Summary: Changing fonts in sawfish crashes the X server
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ted Clark <bison>
Component: sawfishAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Ted Clark 2002-10-04 19:21:03 UTC
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Description of problem:
Changing the fonts in sawfish will sometimes crash the X server.  I am unable to
open an xterm or switch to a virtual console using ctrl-alt-fn; I have to reboot
the system with the power switch.  The mouse point will still move around, but
the window list, workspace switcher, desktop menu, etc. do not work.  Once in a
while sawfish will crash and can be restarted, but most of the time I have to
reboot the system.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change fonts in sawfish until the system hangs.
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Actual Results:  Eventually the system will hang and will have to be rebooted.

Expected Results:  It should be possible to change fonts without hanging the system.

Additional info:

sawfish-2.0-4

related to bug #75140

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-04 19:40:22 UTC
If the X server is crashed, then that is an X server bug.

If sawfish is just sticking a server grab it's a Sawfish bug and should be moved
to http://bugzilla.gnome.org

You can tell if it's sawfish's fault by doing a "killall sawfish" while things
are stuck; if killing sawfish fixes the problem, it was a stuck grab.

You may need to Ctrl+Alt+F1 to a console, or ssh into the machine, to kill sawfish.

Comment 2 Ted Clark 2002-10-04 19:43:58 UTC
Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't work after the crash.  I will have to enable ssh and get
back to you...

Comment 3 Ted Clark 2002-10-07 16:19:19 UTC
I can ssh in from another system and kill sawfish, so this problem appears to be
related to a stuck server grab.

Comment 4 Havoc Pennington 2003-01-13 04:01:04 UTC
Upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103322