Bug#297972: marked as done (GKSu locks KDE; cannot be dismissed,
only killed)
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Subject: GKSu locks KDE; cannot be dismissed, only killed
From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:13:36 +0100
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Package: gksu
Version: 1.2.3-2
I've seen various bug reports of GKSu hiding between other windows,
seeming to lock X, but still reacting to ESC; I've also had this
before. However I think this one is new. My apologies if it's not.
Here's what I do:
- Run 'gksu synaptic' in a Konsole (I'd use the KDE menu but I
immediately switched over to kdesu when this happened the first
time, see below)
- Immediately start switching windows with the KasBar
- As soon as GKSu grabs X, KDE will freeze without showing the GKSu
window (judging from the bug reports this is a known problem)
- After some time, the GKSu window will show up; however it does *not*
have the focus, and I haven't managed to dismiss it in any way.
- The first time this happened, neither Ctrl-Alt-F1 nor
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (!) allowed me to get out of this predicament.
Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this; you'll have to trust me ;-)
Of course with Ctrl-Alt-F1 working, you can just kill the gksu
process from the linux console and remove the lock file. I suppose
a running SSH server would have saved me too.
Not sure what you can do about this, as I'm not into X programming.
Maybe GKSu could somehow detect that it lost focus (which as far as I
can see should never happen) and quit with an error message?
Some relevant versions:
ii gksu 1.2.3-2 graphical frontend to su
ii libgksu1.2-0 1.2.5a-1 library providing su and sudo functionality
ii libgksuui1.0-0 1.0.3-2 a graphical fronted to su library
ii kdebase 3.3.2-1 KDE Base metapackage
ii x-window-syste 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System core components
Greetings
Thomas
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Subject: Re: Bug#297972: GKSu locks KDE; cannot be dismissed, only killed
From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, 297972-done@bugs.debian.org
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Em Qui, 2005-03-10 =C3=A0s 19:24 +0100, Thomas Rast escreveu:
> Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> writes:
>=20
> > Hey, some modifications were done to gksu 1.2.4 about this issue; would
> > you mind trying to reproduce it? You could go to vc1 as root and run
> > 'sleep 20; chvt 1' before trying it, so you'll have a escape method if
> > it locks hard again.
>=20
> Indeed, I can't. Seems you're fixing bugs faster than I can report
> them :-)
That'd be a good thing, I guess =3DD
> Sorry for the trouble!
No problem, thanks for the report! I'm closing the bug report, please do
reopen it if you happen to stumble across it again.
Thanks!
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