Bug#746339: caja: Caja crashed, but spawn infinity, unable to launch others.

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Kyuma Ohta,

On  Di 29 Apr 2014 09:39:45 CEST, Kyuma Ohta wrote:

> Package: caja
> Version: 1.8.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I installed mate desktop environment.
> When started from lightdm or kdm, caja makes fault with
> below message from X.
> --- quote ---
> whatisthis at melchior:~$ caja
> The program 'caja' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
>   (Details: serial 7 error_code 9 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>     (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported
> asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>       To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>          option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
> 	    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the
> gdk_x_error() function.)
> --- end quote ---
>
> But caja tried to re-spawn infinity (from mate-session?).
>
> So, too many number of X clients are started and fauled grater
> than X accepts, X refused another applications based on X.
>
> Refer to below web page, workaround of this issue is:
> Start caja with "--sync" option, issue is not occured, caja starts  
> normally(maybe).
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/call-for-testing-mate-slackbuilds-4175455139/page3.html
>
> I edited Exec section of ~/.config/session-state/caja-(foo).desktop,
> adding "--sync" option, finally mate desktop environment starts :(
>
> Pls.fix this issue, or change schema of caja.desktop.
> Regards,
> Ohta.

Thanks for filing this bug. Please re-test this issue with the latest  
caja upload (1.8.1-1) to Debian unstable and test if the problem is  
fixed with that upload.

Here, I don't see those issues, but I have heard of others observing this.

Thanks
Mike
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