Hi Jonathan, I now "reproduced" the bug with two more programs, gnofract4d (deb package from programs site, gnofract4d_3.13-1ubuntu1_i386.deb), and pybliographic (squeeze version: 1.2.12-3.2).
What they have in common with backintime-gnome is that they all use python (and python-gtk2 and/or python-gnome2). So may be it is a problem with gnome-help, but it may also be a problem with the way python-gtk2 makes the call. Or both. Best regards Andreas Am 17.08.2010 23:27, schrieb Jonathan Wiltshire: > tag 591023 + unreproducible > > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:04:00AM +0200, Andreas Neudecker wrote: >> 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. > > I can't reproduce this behaviour; please ensure you have the lastest > packages and check that it wasn't just part of a transition in testing at > that time. > >> 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<---- > > From this trace it's likely to be a problem in gnome-help; if you can > reproduce it, I'll reassign it there and see what they can make of it. > > Thanks, > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
