Regression causing Freeze in KWin 4.9.1
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Tue Sep 4 20:53:11 UTC 2012
El Dimarts, 4 de setembre de 2012, a les 22:41:10, Martin Gräßlin va escriure:
> Hi KDE Packagers,
>
> unfortunately we have introduced a nasty regression while fixing a bug in
> KWin for 4.9.1 [1]. With the "wrong" settings and the wrong set of open
> windows distributed over multiple desktops this can result in a freeze.
>
> A freeze in KWin means that the compositor stops, that is the user has no
> chance to recover from this state unless he knows how to switch to a tty.
>
> In case you have not yet pushed out updates for kde-workspace I would kindly
> ask you to hold them off till we have a working and regression free fix. A
> patch is already attached to the bug, but I want to give it more time for
> testing tomorrow.
>
> As an alternative you could also revert git commit
> 567f8cc50082ce5307aa7163fdf3176446a1df5a which introduced the regression.
>
> I will keep you informed when the patch has been committed to the branch.
Martin do you want me to add a note to http://www.kde.org/info/4.9.1.php#bugs
?
Also we need to think what to do once the fix is confirmed. Release 4.9.1a
tarball for kde-workspace?
Cheers,
Albert
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
> Kind Regards
> Martin Gräßlin
>
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306260
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