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Clicking on the "Files & Folders" icon while a folder is already displayed in the overlay view causes unity to crash and re-start

Bug #641894 reported by Philipp Merkel on 2010-09-18

This bug affects 20 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Won't Fix	High	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

Clicking on the "Files & Folders" icon in the launcher, selecting a folder then to display its contents in the overlay, and then clicking the "Files & Folders" icon again causes unity/mutter to re-start. I guess it should either close the overlay or switch back to the initial overlay view instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.40-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 18 11:17:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

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Philipp Merkel (plippo) wrote on 2010-09-18:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2010-09-18

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2010-09-20

Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → High
assignee:	nobody → Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup)
milestone:	none → 2010-09-22

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote on 2010-09-20:

For me it just enters what seems to be an infinite loop. Trying to break the loop in gdb seems to indicate that it is some event->clear->redraw loop or something - there is definitely some gdk even handling and mesa_Clear() going on...

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) on 2010-09-20

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote on 2010-09-20:

Strike my comment #2. When running a full Unity session (not just unity -p) I can reproduce the crash

Neil J. Patel (njpatel) on 2010-09-20

Changed in unity:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote on 2010-09-22:

We have to let this one slide for the 09-22 milestone unfortunately. A suitable fix has not been found.

Changed in unity:
status:	Fix Committed → Triaged

David Barth (dbarth) on 2010-09-23

Changed in unity:
milestone:	2010-09-22 → 2010-09-24

Omer Akram (om26er) on 2010-12-12

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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David Barth (dbarth) wrote on 2011-02-10:

Old version, sorry won't fix it. Please try Natty.

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → nobody
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in unity:
milestone:	2010-09-24 → none

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i2000s (i2000s) wrote on 2011-02-10: Re: [Bug 641894] Re: Clicking on the "Files & Folders" icon while a folder is already displayed in the overlay view causes unity to crash and re-start

Thanks a lot.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM, David Barth <email address hidden>wrote:

> Old version, sorry won't fix it. Please try Natty.
>
> ** Changed in: unity
> Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
>
> ** Changed in: unity
> Assignee: Neil J. Patel (njpatel) => (unassigned)
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
>
> ** Changed in: unity
> Milestone: 2010-09-24 => None
>
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> Title:
> Clicking on the "Files & Folders" icon while a folder is already
> displayed in the overlay view causes unity to crash and re-start
>
> Status in Unity:
> Won't Fix
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: unity
>
> Clicking on the "Files & Folders" icon in the launcher, selecting a
> folder then to display its contents in the overlay, and then clicking
> the "Files & Folders" icon again causes unity/mutter to re-start. I
> guess it should either close the overlay or switch back to the initial
> overlay view instead.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: unity 0.2.40-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.32-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sat Sep 18 11:17:15 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386
> (20100318)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=de_DE.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: unity
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