Geis

geistest crashes when there are too many windows

Bug #824101 reported by Stephen M. Webb on 2011-08-10

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Geis	Fix Released	Medium	Stephen M. Webb	Geis utouch-geis-2.2.5
	utouch-geis (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Stephen M. Webb	Ubuntu ubuntu-12.04-beta-2

Bug Description

When geistest is run with no arguments and there are a lot of windows open on the screen it errors with a message "Maximum number of clients reached" and sometimes crashes with a core dump.

This does not occur if geistest is run using the "-w windowid" command-line switch.

Related branches

lp:~bregma/geis/lp-824101

Merged into lp:geis at revision 201

Chase Douglas (community): Approve on 2012-02-14

lp:geis

lp:geis/ubuntu

lp:ubuntu/precise/utouch-geis

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2011-08-10

Changed in utouch-geis:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2011-08-12

Changed in utouch-geis:
importance:	Medium → High
milestone:	none → 2.1.3

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Alessandro Crismani (alessandro-crismani) wrote on 2011-08-12:

No entirely sure if I understand correctly, but if I try the suggestion I still get (see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/utouch-geis/+bug/825359)

alessandro at alessandro-thinky in ~
$ geistest -w $(xwininfo -root | grep "Window id" | awk '{print $4}')
*** glibc detected *** geistest: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00000000011a1508 ***

Did I do it right?

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote on 2011-08-12:

I cut and paste the command line and do not get the invalid pointer (I do without the -w).

Does the geisview tool run correctly?

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Alessandro Crismani (alessandro-crismani) wrote on 2011-08-12:

Nope. What I get is

python2 /usr/bin/geisview
*** glibc detected *** python2: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001253b88 ***

Plus the backtrace. Let me know if it helps

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Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote on 2011-08-12:

GEIS_DEBUG=2 geitest log Edit (11.4 KiB, text/plain)

Running with GEIS_DEBUG=2 results in the following error.

Maximum number of clients reachedGEIS(error)-_construct:634 error opening X server.

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2011-08-23

Changed in utouch-geis:
assignee:	nobody → Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Chase Douglas (chasedouglas) on 2011-12-08

Changed in utouch-geis (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → High
assignee:	nobody → Stephen M. Webb (bregma)
Changed in utouch-geis:
importance:	High → Medium
Changed in utouch-geis (Ubuntu):
importance:	High → Medium

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2012-02-14

Changed in utouch-geis:
milestone:	utouch-geis-2.2.0 → utouch-geis-2.2.5
Changed in utouch-geis (Ubuntu):
milestone:	none → ubuntu-12.04-beta-2

Stephen M. Webb (bregma) on 2012-02-14

Changed in utouch-geis:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-02-16:

This bug was fixed in the package utouch-geis - 2.2.5-0ubuntu1

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utouch-geis (2.2.5-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - fixes reentrancy-case crash in eog and evince (lp: #932642)
    - fixes crash in geisview tool when no window is specified (lp: #824101)
-- <email address hidden> (Stephen M. Webb) Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:40:20 -0500