[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

let's change this task so pygtk subscribers stop being spammed ** Package changed: pygtk (Ubuntu) => ubuntu ** Changed in: ubuntu Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: Ubuntu Jaunty Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: Ubun

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

@Gustavo Carneiro Yes, that's the whole point. Just forgot to add time.sleep(1) to make this happen every one second - then X won't be busy at all. That's the whole point - when developer forgets to add gtk.gdk.threads_enter() and gtk.gdk.threads_leave() this happens.If you add time.sleep(1) GTK

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

no more freeze installing Alarm Clock 0.9.19 from getdeb http://www.getdeb.net/app/Alarm+Clock -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

The fix for jaunty-proposed is still waiting to be built. We're in the middle of the first sync from Debian for Karmic, so things are very backed up currently. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I install all updates of ubuntu9.04 and still have this problem. I updated my laptop from 8.10 to 9.04. Then i also installed it on my friends Sony Vaio and his laptop also freezed after starting alarm clock. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Sorry about that. It's alarm-clock that's been accepted. ** Changed in: python2.6 (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Fix Committed => New -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desk

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Accepted into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: pygtk (Ubuntu Jaunty) Sta

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

motu-sru ACK. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

About your test case: 1. It uses threads with incorrect locking, see attached patch to fix it; 2. In my system, X is not frozen, just becomes very slow. But the program is asking for trouble by continually updating the status icon in a while True: loop without even a pause for breath between e

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Hello, I've managed to write a simple testcase in Python. Hope that helps. I have something to do today, but I'll try to check out if it's possible in C. After starting crash.py by doing python crash.py you need to kill it by doing killall -9 python. ** Attachment added: "Test case" http://lau

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I've uploaded Mike's change for Jaunty. From here is has to be approved by the motu-sru team, accepted by an archive-administrator, and then it goes to jaunty-proposed for testing. Once it tests out, it will be copied to jaunty-updates for everyone. ** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu Jaunty)

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

@Mike: thanks for the debdiffs. They look good to me except a couple of minor changelog issues. I rewrote your debian/changelog entries to make them more verbose. Also the target for a post-release update should be jaunty-proposed (I fixed that too). ** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu Jaunty)

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

This bug was fixed in the package alarm-clock - 0.9.18-3ubuntu1 --- alarm-clock (0.9.18-3ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low * Work around GTK related hang to fix LP: #321176 -- Mike BasingerWed, 29 Apr 2009 16:41:24 -0600 ** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu) Status: In Progre

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

** Also affects: alarm-clock (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pygtk (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: python2.6 (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes scree

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Scott Kitterman (kitterman) -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https:/

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Original, more detailed, version of this comment lost due to launchpad bugs. This bug is present on Ubuntu 9.04 with the latest version of the package from the repository installed (including stable, testing, and unstable). gustavo appears to be incorrect; this is not your run of the mill grab po

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

This is a serious bug that renders the entire system unusable until reboot unless the user knows about console switching and killall and even though the bug itself may not be in the package code, this bug can not be closed until there is a new package that requires a version of python packages that

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

>Anyway, I am trying to write a testcase to demonstrate the bug. Thank you. This is a very valuable step towards getting to the root of this. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM, sabby7890 wrote: > > I wanted to say that THIS bug can be closed because Alarm > Clock no longer suffers from it, and freezing desktop when you do strace > is not a bug in Alarm Clock. > I agree, lets have the alarm clock bug fixed and close this bug. If there i

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I won't unsubscribe, because this patricular bug number 321176 is related to my application Alarm Clock. I am subscribed automatically to any bug that is triggered in my application, because I am the main developer. I wanted to say that THIS bug can be closed because Alarm Clock no longer suffers f

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

>This bug is not closed. It's not related to alarm-clock, sabby, it's >related to Python. It does seem that alarm clock triggers the bug. If there any disagreement that the proposed alarm clock patch avoids it? -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

>If you want to unsubscribe from this bug (please do), you can click the >link marked "Unsubscribe". It's on the upper right, right above the list >of subscribers. Not if, like many of us, you are subscribed to the bug because you or a team you are a member of is subscribed to bugs for the packa

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

This bug is not closed. It's not related to alarm-clock, sabby, it's related to Python. It's not fixed. Upgrading alarm-clock will not prevent the same thing from happening when you run strace, for instance. To say that a "Virus is an application that forces computer not to work properly" is false

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Sorry, sabby, I hope I wasn't too offensive, not my intention. Hoping you meant someone else. :) You are right, this is a very tiny mistake. The X11 API makes it very easy to "freeze" the desktop, as I explained. I am only annoyed that I have received over 60 comments on a bug that isn't even p

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Gustavo: Click unsubscribe on the right. I am actually tired of this bug too. I've fixed it, it works, bug is closed. It's not my fault thoguh that the whole session is frozen - it was working previously, right now someone changed something somewhere and it started to freeze. If you want - upgrad

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Here's how I think you can reproduce the problem. Just write a program (C or Python, doesn't matter) that: 1. Creates a toplevel window (make it a fullscreen window for increased effect) 2. calls gdk_pointer_grab on that window 3. never calls gdk_pointer_ungrab >From that moment on, the progr

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Mr Jo-Erlend Schinstad, Virus is an application that forces computer not to work properly. Notice that most Windows viruses nowdays are not copying itself to other executables, they're just starting when computer starts (they're placed in registry - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Cu

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Mr Jo-Erlend Schinstad, Virus is an application that forces computer not to work properly. Notice that most Windows viruses nowdays are not copying itself to other executables, they're just starting when computer starts (they're placed in registry - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Cu

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

sabby7890, please stop nagging about viruses. This has nothing to do with viruses at all! A virus is an executable file that copies itself into another executable. This bug wouldn't in any way permit a user to write to its executable, nor any other executable, hence it's not a virus. Though it is

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

The best contrubtion towards getting the underlying problem addressed would be a minimal test case program that demonstrates the problem. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu D

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Ok, Alarm Clock is fine, but what about the bug that caused screen to freeze? Will it be fixed or can I start writing a virus?;) -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bug

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

** Attachment added: "debdiff for alarm-clock 0.9.18-3 for Ubuntu Karmic" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26163090/alarm-clock_0.9.18-3ubuntu1.debdiff -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Here is a debdiff for the package in Ubuntu 9.04. It is my first, so let me know if I need to change anything. ** Attachment added: "debdiff for alarm-clock 0.9.18-3 in Ubuntu 9.04" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26163030/alarm-clock_0.9.18-3ubuntu0.1.debdiff -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes scr

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Same bug here. I'm using Jaunty final. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@li

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Same bug here. I'm using Jaunty final. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@li

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Same bug here. I'm using Jaunty final. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@li

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

This should be done as a stable release update, not a backport. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mail

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/jaunty-backports/+bug/369549 -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to pygtk in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I have built version 0.9.19 which fixes the problem. I have added it to my ppa, https://edge.launchpad.net/~mike.basinger/+archive/ppa (as soon as it builds). I would suggest making this a backport if possible. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

It was a bug in Alarm Clock, indeed. But, it's still a bug in other package too - with this bug, a userspace application can hang the whole user's machine on purprose - this is called a virus. This can be used even by some malicious Firefox extensions. I strongly recommend someone to take a look at

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

hype wrote: > http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Alarm_Clock > > Indeed, just saw that on gnome-files. > > I'll try that soon; thanks in advance for fixing the issue in 9.04 :> > > Mikko Rantalainen, before whining: > 1) just do it ... > 2) there's no 2) > 'It's clear that the software was NEVE

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

OK. We can't do a wholesale update post-release, but if someone can figure out which change/patch fixed this, we can get an update in. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desk

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

@Scott Kitterman The bug was, as far as I could tell in alarm-clock, not some other package. which is why I changed the status. And if you'll look at the webpage, you'll see that a new version has been released which fixes this bug. So it was in fact a bug in alarm-c

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/Alarm_Clock Indeed, just saw that on gnome-files. I'll try that soon; thanks in advance for fixing the issue in 9.04 :> Mikko Rantalainen, before whining: 1) just do it ... 2) there's no 2) -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Go to alarm-clock.pl and download alarm-clock-0.9.19 - fixes the bug. Ubuntu packagers can update the package so it won't cause freeze anymore. It can be easily packaged, because it's a small update of Python version. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I don't care if the issue is in the alarm-clock, pygtk or somewhere else. The fact is that if I select Applications - Add/Remove... and search for an alarm clock I get package "alarm-clock". If I then proceed to install it and ever start it, my X session is immediately frozen. Happens on both x86_6

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I am not only seeing alarm-clock hang the UI, but it is locking up my computer. Happened 2x in a row. This is on Jaunty amd64. I don't have time to troubleshoot it, so am removing the package. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received thi

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

You start asking why and end up assuming you know there is no why. Why it's mark invalid against alarm-clock is that the bug (that manifests via alarm-clock) is caused by a problem in another package. Please don't just start marking on bugs and filing people's in boxes. If you don't understand, as

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

why is this marked Invalid? This is 100% reproducible in the current package in the Jaunty repository. ** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I agree. If it was just alarm-clock, it'd been ok. It's not a critical application, and it's not supported. But it isn't just alarm-clock. This also happens if you try to strace something in gnome-terminal at least. Other things cause this to happen as well. I think this bug should've been marked w

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

the valgrind log shows error in the python code and no pygtk lines ** Package changed: pygtk (Ubuntu) => python2.6 (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: python2.6 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New ** Changed in: python2.6 (Ubuntu) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) => (unassigned) --

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

So far no one has produced a solid patch for this problem, so where to upload it is moot. A fix in -updates would help upgraders too, so it's not to late. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Ok, but for anyone who upgrades from 8.10 to 9.04 and uses alarm-clock, their desktop will be inaccessible to them. (they will have to use recovery mode to uninstall alarm-clock, or a virtual console to kill it). This seems like a major problem that needs to be address *before* release, so that use

Re: [Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Severe bugs can be dealt with in a post release update once a clear fix is available. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-b

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

If the python package is not going to be updated then it should be removed from 9.04, since right now it renders the user's desktop useless if it is used. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I don't think updating the Python package will make any sense, because I am working on new version which is working perfectly under Ubuntu. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

could you post the patch here as an attachment? I tried editing my local files, but wasn't able to fix the bug by changing the class style. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

All - I am not quite sure how to proceed. I can confirm the issue is the use of deprecated classes. Running alarm-clock using Python 2.5 on Jaunty resolves the issue with alarm-clock. Having 2.5 installed along-side 2.6 broke all kinds of other things in my VM, I wouldn't suggest it. Pyt

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I have the same problem in Jaunty RC, is there a workaround for this? -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

It seems to be a python issue, but only when dealing with legacy/deprecated classes. It would not be hard to fix the applications; where you see: class Foo: ... Change it to: class Foo(object): ... And the problem should go away. -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https:/

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Since this seems to be a python issue and jaunty uses python 2.6 as default instead of 2.5 as intrepid did, has anyone tried running alarm- clock with python 2.5 on jaunty? How can do this? Simply changing: #!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/bin/python2.5 in /usr/bin/alarm-clock does not work for me. -

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Same problem here alarm-clock - 0.9.18-3 python2.6 - 2.6.2~rc1-0ubuntu1 ** Attachment added: "valgrind-logs-alarm-clock.tar.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25374653/valgrind-logs-alarm-clock.tar.gz -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I also experience this bug -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Confirmed in 9.04 beta -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

I can also confirm the bug. The attachment in my reply shows what happens when I start the application in the terminal. Thanks. ** Attachment added: "alarm-clock.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24846537/alarm-clock.log -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem. ** Changed in: pygt

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

** Changed in: alarm-clock (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: alarmclock Status: New => Invalid -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bug

[Bug 321176] Re: [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze

** Also affects: pygtk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: pygtk Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [Jaunty] alarm-clock causes screen to freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu