Regression causing Freeze in KWin 4.9.1

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Wed Sep 5 04:36:23 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 04 September 2012 22:53:11 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 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 ?
Yes, that would make sense. 
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