Package: backintime-gnome Version: 0.9.26-4 Severity: normal Hi.
Clicking the help button in the tool bar results in an infinite number of (empty?) help windows (yelp) opening in fast succession. This makes it impossible to shutdown backintime or stop more help windows being opened or do anything else useful to stop the disaster. On my system it wasn't even possible to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace out of X. I eventually had to go to a console (Alt+F2) and stop gdm to stop it. After restarting gdm and logging back in tried running backintime-gnome from said console and logged stderr output: These four lines repeat many times, apparently once for each help window opened: ----8<---- (gnome-help:3991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_tool_button_new: assertion `icon_widget == NULL || GTK_IS_MISC (icon_widget)' failed (gnome-help:3991): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (gnome-help:3991): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (gnome-help:3991): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_toolbar_insert: assertion `GTK_IS_TOOL_ITEM (item)' failed ----8<---- I consider this bug critical because it may lead to data loss, when an unsuspecting user has unsaved data in other running programs when he clicks on the help button (!) in backintime and cannot access a console (or does not know how to use it). Also, other program's configuration files might be broken when the user chooses the reset button as last resort (or, in my case kills gdm to stop X and thus the user's session - after the next login XFCE failed to start xfce4-panel so I had to fix that). Regards Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages backintime-gnome depends on: ii backintime-common 0.9.26-4 simple backup/snapshot system ii menu 2.1.43 generates programs menu for all me ii python 2.6.5-5 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-glade2 2.17.0-2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support ii python-gnome2 2.28.1-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk ii python-gtk2 2.17.0-2 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii python-notify 0.1.1-2+b2 Python bindings for libnotify ii python-support 1.0.9 automated rebuilding support for P Versions of packages backintime-gnome recommends: ii meld 1.3.2-1 graphical tool to diff and merge f ii nautilus-actions 2.30.2-1 nautilus extension to configure pr backintime-gnome suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
