On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:14:57PM +0100, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > >reassign 396071 cdebconf-gtk-udeb > >thanks > > > >On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:23, Robert Millan wrote: > > > >>If you hit the Screenshot button while wget is fetching [1] your > >>mirror's Release file, d-i will segfault. Inmediately after that, you > >>see [2], and after a console switch, the d-i logs [3]. > > > > > >Known issue and the reason why the screenshot button is disabled when a > >progress bar is running. > >Apparently we are disabling the screenshot button too late here. > > > >Reassigning to cdebconf-gtk-udeb as that is what causes the crash, and it > >would be good to investigate the actual cause of the crash and seeing if > >we can solve that. Disabling the button was only a workaround. > > > >Note that in the mean time we may need to fix this in choose-mirror after > >all by displaying a progress bar at this point. > > Accessing the GdkWindow by a thread while the window is being updated by > another thread in the gtk_main_loop() causes crashes, and this is the > reason why i made the screenshot button disappear during a > progress_xxx() call, in fact past experiments aimed at gaining exclusive > access to the gdkwidow led to deadlocks between threads. > Robert, did you press the button before the progressbar was displayed or > were you able to press it while the progressbar was running?
When I pressed it no progress bar was being displayed. I don't know if one was going to show up eventualy, but it was taking too much time and in fact the system appeared to be hang because of this. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
