[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#882455: pcmanfm: hangs system when startx is used to initiate joes window manager

[Ron Schwiesow]

Package: pcmanfm
Version: 1.2.5-3
Severity: important

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pcmanfm depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.26.0-2
ii  libc6                2.24-17
ii  libcairo2            1.15.8-2
ii  libfm-gtk4           1.2.5-1
ii  libfm4               1.2.5-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.12.3-0.2
ii  libfreetype6         2.8.1-0.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.54.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.31-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.40.12-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.12-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.40.12-1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-3
ii  shared-mime-info     1.9-2

Versions of packages pcmanfm recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme                      3.12.0-2
ii  gvfs-backends                         1.34.1-1+b1
ii  gvfs-fuse                             1.34.1-1+b1
ii  lxqt-policykit [polkit-1-auth-agent]  0.11.1-2
ii  oxygen-icon-theme                     5:5.37.0-2

pcmanfm suggests no packages.


I'm installing a minimal system with no preselected packages. Installation is OK 
through X11 and menu and sudo, etc. Installation of JWM is OK as well. Then I use
aptitude to install pcmanfm. The package is huge: 423 pkgs, 712 MB. Goes slowly.
Then running startx goes very slowly and hangs eventually on a screen showing some
kind of a bird (origami, not LXDE). System frozen. On reboot, I do purge pcmanfm,
and only 2 packages are removed. startx again hangs eventually with the same bird.
This happened twice.

So, I gave up and installed LXDE-core. PCManFM works OK there, but I miss JWM. The
problem has something to with installing pcmanfm with LXDE.

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