Bug#443402: evince: Can effectively freeze X by grabbing keyboard and mouse

Dylan Thurston dthurston at barnard.edu
Mon Oct 22 20:39:23 UTC 2007


close 443402
thanks

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:17:39PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Dylan Thurston <dthurston at barnard.edu> writes:
> > If you start evince with the attached file placed in
> > ~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml by calling "evince file.pdf" for any
> > PDF file[1], X will effectively freeze: the keyboard and mouse clicks no
> > longer have any effect, although the mouse cursor continues to move
> > and the display continues to update.  Killing evince does not fix the
> > situation.  This can cause data loss if any other applications are
> > open.
> 
> This hasn't been reported by any other user, it doesn't seem to be
> reproducible at all and you haven't added new information. For now, I'm
> going to downgrade it, as the current information doesn't show that it
> should be marked as a release critical issue.

I'm sorry, it should be closed.  It was the bug that Sven Arvidsson
referred to, but (a) I replied to him rather than the bug and (b) I
forgot to close the bug after verifying the fix.

Peace,
	Dylan






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