[Sugar-devel] Activity crashes when using libsugarize.so

[Simon Schampijer]

On 02/10/2011 11:55 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Indeed. At this point, we think the crash comes not so much from
>> libsugarize but from changing windows very quickly during startup.
>
> Wrtiteup of my diagnosis and patches at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10683
>
> Note that the patches only shrink the window. Combine them, and the
> crash (with this specific program, this hw, this load profile) goes
> away. Mostly :-)
>
> Not sure if there's a way to ask gtk.gdk&  wnck to query a window in a
> sane manner. Maybe this race is bad API in those bindings, maybe it's
> just an X11 protocol gotcha.
>
> Where's jg when we need him? ;-)
>
>
> m

For reference: We just found that master has a catch for that issue:
http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1123

http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit/mainline/commit/d304f72872fa346dd2c3cedd1d3e508a3aeb5107

Regards,
    Simon