Bug 240691 - system clock change and form timer
Summary: system clock change and form timer
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: newt
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-20 12:50 UTC by Tristan Hill
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 0.52.7-1.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-17 16:14:10 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
modify test.c to change system time to reproduce spinner hang (867 bytes, patch)
2007-05-20 12:50 UTC, Tristan Hill 		no flags Details | Diff
proposed patch (885 bytes, patch)
2007-05-20 12:52 UTC, Tristan Hill 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Tristan Hill 2007-05-20 12:50:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
If the system clock is corrected backwards after newtFormRun is called and a
form timer is used it can appear to hang.

This is shown by the spinner in test.c with the attached patch.
Comment 1 Tristan Hill 2007-05-20 12:50:38 UTC 
Created attachment 155058 [details]
modify test.c to change system time to reproduce spinner hang
Comment 2 Tristan Hill 2007-05-20 12:52:59 UTC 
Created attachment 155059 [details]
proposed patch

and a sanity check to reset form->lastTimeout if current system time is less
than time of lastTimeout
Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-05-21 13:29:10 UTC 
Fixed in upstream cvs, will be in the next newt release. Thanks.
Comment 4 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-06-15 13:23:52 UTC 
Fixed in newt-0.52.7-1.fc8.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-08-09 16:48:44 UTC 
newt-0.52.7-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2007-08-17 16:13:57 UTC 
newt-0.52.7-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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