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pyther

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X dies/crashes gracefully - using Evince & Gedit (possible gtk3 apps)

A couple days ago I went to move an evince window and then X just died. No segfault and nothing in dmesg, Today I'm using gedit (two windows open) and doing some text editing and the same thing happened. I was able to reproduce the issue about 3 or 4 times. Simply trying to highlight text or clicking on an area of the window is enough to trigger this "crash." startx's exit code is 0 after one of these "crashes".

I am not really sure what is going on nor how to troubleshoot this.I'm thinking it might have to do with gtk3 apps, but the only gtk3 apps I use are evince and gedit.

Any help or guidance would be great!

local/gedit 3.4.0-1 (gnome-extra)
    A text editor for GNOME
local/evince 3.4.0-1 (gnome-extra)
    Simply a document viewer
local/gtk3 3.4.0-1
    GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit (v3)

and of course I'm using testing

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megawebmaster

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Re: X dies/crashes gracefully - using Evince & Gedit (possible gtk3 apps)

What about .xsession-errors in your home dir?

pyther

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Re: X dies/crashes gracefully - using Evince & Gedit (possible gtk3 apps)

I don't have an .xsession-errors file, but the output printed to stdout on the tty I execute startx on is all normal output. Nothing interesting.

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Nanthiel

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Re: X dies/crashes gracefully - using Evince & Gedit (possible gtk3 apps)

Same thing happening on my machine. Noticed it with transmission-gtk and nautilus!

It *seems* to go away if I disable any custom theming. However I haven't been testing it for long enough to be sure.

Edit: If I turn the Adwaita theme on again it crashes immediately after I try to move the Nautilus window quickly. Doesn't happen with the theme option empty in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.

Edit: I am not using testing!

Last edited by Nanthiel (2012-04-25 16:18:18)