Regression causing Freeze in KWin 4.9.1

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Sep 5 19:45:59 UTC 2012


El Dimecres, 5 de setembre de 2012, a les 21:06:55, Martin Graesslin va 
escriure:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2012 22:41:10 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I just pushed the fix to KDE/4.9 branch of kde-workspace repository as
> 8452e6c[1].
> 
> Sorry again for introducing this issue.

So do we want a 4.9.1a tarball for kde-workspace or we trust packagers will 
just pick up the patch?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best Regards
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
> [1] http://commits.kde.org/kde-
> workspace/8452e6c3f01a65953705087e0d7ada87e2cc6997
> 
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