Regression causing Freeze in KWin 4.9.1

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Sep 5 18:33:11 UTC 2012


El Dimecres, 5 de setembre de 2012, a les 06:36:23, Martin Gräßlin va 
escriure:
> 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.

Done.

Albert


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