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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Strange hangs with KDE 1.1 (KPanel)
From:       "Bjoern.Kahl" <bjoern () hp1 ! ang-physik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       1999-07-23 9:23:04
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On 23-Jul-99 Pietro Iglio wrote:
> At 19.19 22/07/99 +0200, Stefan van den Oord wrote:
>>For some time now once in a while KDE completely hangs. 
> ... (accurate description of the problem)
> 
> This is a major bug that should be fixed BEFORE releasing 1.2.
> KDE should never hang! Unfortunately, it is very hard to reproduce,
> so I cannot find the source of the problem.
> 
> Did anyone discover a pattern to reproduce the bug?
>
>Help, please!

 Hallo !

 I can't give you a line of code, but I know, it is *not*
 kpanel (or kde) specific.
 I can reproduce same behavior under fvwm2 (i.e. *without*
 KDE) and Netscape or knews. It looks like some app creates
 an undecorated (modal ?) window, lost track of it and is
 somehow blocking the windowmanager.

 I think it is the windowmanager, because (under fvwm2) a
 restart of the windowmanager (via keyboard, mouse moves around,
 but doesn't do anything) *or* killing the app brings things
 back to live. 

 *Note* : I have *never* seen this on modern, fast maschines. 
 Only on my good old 486 @ 66 , 32 MB RAM, slow VLB-gfx-card.
 May be a racecondition somewhere.
 I can give detailed reproduction-instruction (works ~25%).


 Bjoern

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