Re: [Synaptic-devel] focus bug

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:36:50PM +0200, Wouter van Wijk wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
 
> I stumbled upon a bug, which hangs the program and Gnome or the
> Windowmanager (on my system at least). 

Thanks for your bugreport.

> I opened synaptic, right-clicked on a program. The context-menu
> popped up, but right after that the dialog stating that my files
> were too old. The result: a non-responding gnome. I had to
> ctrl-alt-f1 and login, kill to get Gnome responding again. Could be
> a gtk bug or of the window Manager, but I experienced it only with
> Synaptic. I'm running Ubuntu Hoary. I didn't subscribe to the list,
> btw.

I tried to reproduce the problem here without success. It looks like a
race condition to me. Is your system fast or slow? Are you able to
reproduce it all the time or does it only happens sometimes? What do I
need to do to reproduce?

Thanks,
 Michael

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