Metacity crashed on changing workspaces from 16 to 36

Thanks for your bug. How did you change the number of workspace, with the keyboard or by clicking? Could you install metacity-dbgsym from "deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ddebs edgy main" and get a backtrace with it?

Hi,

I changed it by clicking on the up-arrow.

BTW, I saw the crash again while scaling down from 36 to 16 workspaces.

On 10/9/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your bug. How did you change the number of workspace, with
> the keyboard or by clicking? Could you install metacity-dbgsym from "deb
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/ddebs edgy main" and get a backtrace
> with it?
>
> ** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> Metacity crashed on changing workspaces from 16 to 36
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/64818
>

--
http://employees.org/~abhinav/blog/

Forwarded upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361804

Is this still happening for you? Can you still reproduce it? I just tried here (running edgy): I set the number of workspaces to 16, then to 36, then back down to 16, and nothing unusual happened. Did you have windows in any of these workspaces? How many rows do you have your workspaces arranged into?

Hi Thomas.

This is not reproducible on Edgy .. I can scale upto 36 and back.

There were a few windows on SOME (2-4) of the workspaces - not all.
I am not sure of the number of rows - but I must have tried with 1,2 and 4.

Regards
Abhinav

On 12/6/06, Thomas Thurman <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Is this still happening for you? Can you still reproduce it? I just
> tried here (running edgy): I set the number of workspaces to 16, then to
> 36, then back down to 16, and nothing unusual happened. Did you have
> windows in any of these workspaces? How many rows do you have your
> workspaces arranged into?
>
> --
> Metacity crashed on changing workspaces from 16 to 36
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/64818
>

--
http://employees.org/~abhinav/blog/

marking as fixed if it works fine on edgy. Feel free to reopen if you get the problem again

Duplicate from edgy, reopening

upstream comment:

"http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=86071&action=view
I think this patch (against trunk, shouldn't be hard to backport) will fix the
crash

Trying to look for something that could cause a crash with this stack trace, I
think the above patch catches the problem (trying to free an array of lists as
well as the lists, when they've already been freed). Any chance you could test
and verify? For some reason, I had a hard time duplicating."

fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

This bug was fixed in the package metacity - 1:2.23.55-0ubuntu1

---------------
metacity (1:2.23.55-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Add some extra null checks (LP: #92502)
    - Check for double-freeing at the time of workspace freeing (LP: #64818)
  * debian/control:
    - Add Vcs-Bzr header
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0

 -- Pedro Fragoso <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:17:00 +0100