Bug#656762:

2012-12-16 Thread alberto fuentes
hi! Can somebody of the gnome-team comment on the status of this, or at least know what do you plan to do about it? :) bugs upstream status are UNCONFIRM The debug mode for the window could be a workaround in debian, although i dont know the implications of setting the window to debug mode. Mayb

Bug#656762: gnome-shell: after "something went wrong" no chance to save any data at all

2012-09-04 Thread Norbert Preining
On Wed, 05 Sep 2012, Michael Biebl wrote: > A related upstream discussion is at > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677875 Indeed, exactely my words. At some point in time I was told that "programs should save the data when they are torn down" ... well, hopefully G-devs start to think no

Bug#656762: gnome-shell: after "something went wrong" no chance to save any data at all

2012-09-04 Thread Michael Biebl
A related upstream discussion is at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677875 I have to agree that the fail-whale is a rather annoying "feature". Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Descri

Bug#656762: Set the debug property on the fail whale so it can be moved with the mouse to a corner

2012-08-21 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
Hi! When I was using gnome3 some months ago this bug annoyed me more than a couple of times, I was able to work-around it by making the annoying whale window to be a normal desktop window, so when it pop-ups you can move it to a corner with the mouse and save your data before logging out. To mak

Bug#656762: gnome-shell: after "something went wrong" no chance to save any data at all

2012-02-20 Thread Bastien Durel
One way to workaround this bug is to minimize (default shortcup alt+f9, or alt+space then click minimize) the "somthing went wrong" window. Works well here. -- Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Bug#656762: gnome-shell: after "something went wrong" no chance to save any data at all

2012-02-11 Thread G. Chris Hofmann
Setting that key seems to have resolved the issue for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#656762: gnome-shell: after "something went wrong" no chance to save any data at all

2012-01-27 Thread G. Chris Hofmann
I started having this problem recently and to lend some credibility to the PackageKit theory, it started about the same time I installed PackageKit. I set the key as noted above and have not experienced the issue as of yet. I set the key last evening though, so probably not long enough time has p

Bug#656762: gnome-shell: after "something went wrong" no chance to save any data at all

2012-01-27 Thread Stephan Braun
Package: gnome-session Followup-For: Bug #656762 Hi, I just want to say that I'm too experiencing the issue of massive g-s-d crashes with the "fail-whale" showing up every now and then. For that crash window: it seems to be just a stupid application, so a ALT-F4 closes it a

Bug#656762: Bug#656564: libglib2.0-0: since upgrade to 2.30.2-5 programs start segfaulting at random

2012-01-25 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 25 Jan 2012, Michael Biebl wrote: > I've been seeing more frequent crashes of g-s-d too in the last couple Ahh, at least it is getting reproducible ;-) > of days. The core dump I got also points into the direction of > PackageKit. Could you disable the updates plugin for now (re-login, to

Bug#656762: Bug#656564: libglib2.0-0: since upgrade to 2.30.2-5 programs start segfaulting at random

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.01.2012 05:45, Norbert Preining wrote: > at the same time packagekit was updated from 0.7.1-2 -> 0.7.2-1 > which brought eg > - glib: Convert libpackagekit-glib2 from dbus-glib to GDBus I've been seeing more frequent crashes of g-s-d too in the last couple of days. The core dump I got

Bug#656762: Bug#656564: libglib2.0-0: since upgrade to 2.30.2-5 programs start segfaulting at random

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 24 Jan 2012, Michael Biebl wrote: > Can you also please either try to get a backtrace or a core dump. > Instructions have been given in the previous emails. Ok, I have now installed the -4 versions from testing, rebooted, and still see the effect: [ 400.36] gnome-settings-[3633]: segfa

Bug#656762: Bug#656564: libglib2.0-0: since upgrade to 2.30.2-5 programs start segfaulting at random

2012-01-23 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Michael, On Di, 24 Jan 2012, Michael Biebl wrote: > Btw, I can't really reproduce the issue, that a segfaulting > gnome-settings-daemon causes the fail-whale to show up, that is the > session is closed. It does not happen *always*. I mean, the g-s-d *often crashes, but only sometimes it is res

Bug#656762: Bug#656564: libglib2.0-0: since upgrade to 2.30.2-5 programs start segfaulting at random

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Biebl
On 24.01.2012 03:41, Norbert Preining wrote: > Triggered by this, gnome-session shows the "Oh something went wrong" > screen making it impossible to save work, although the session is > absolutely fine working, just the settings are not applied. I see > all the work I was doing in the overview of