Bug 233367 – gnome-keyring-ask is too modal/keyboard and mouse focus lost

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Florian Streibelt 2008-07-30 10:17:37 UTC]

I had a 'hard lock' of gnome due to a gui race-condition.
While Network-Manager tried to astablish a connection to my encrypted WLAN I clicked on it to see the list of available nets again. So NM popped up a dropdown menu.

At the same time NM asked the gnome-keyring for my WLAN-Password, and the gnome-keyring-ask binary popped up its password-dialog for the keyring password.

Then the input focus of mouse and keyboard was completely lost. 

I was not able to enter a password or click on any buttons of the password-dialog.
I changed to a text-console and  had to killall gnome-keyring-ask.







Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-07-30 12:39:11 UTC]

Yummy, grabs...

This is a textbook example of why X grabs are a Bad Idea (tm) in their current form. I guess we'd need to figure out what gnome-keyring-ask really does.

As far as I'm concerned, I would say this is an upstream Gnome bug. But an interesting one though :)

I'll try to take a look, but please do file a bug in Gnome's bugzilla.

Thanks

[Comment 2 Florian Streibelt 2008-07-30 12:57:34 UTC]

There might be similar bug already known upstream - sorry.

like gnome-bug: 467216 
and Bug 507392 – Seahorse blocks on entering key password
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507392

Hmm. Maybe NegtworkManager needs some tweaking?

[Comment 3 Florian Streibelt 2008-07-30 13:04:14 UTC]

Filed an upstream bug report

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540146
Bug 545509 – when network-manager-applet asks a wlan password and the wlan list is open X blocks

[Comment 4 Florian Streibelt 2008-07-30 13:05:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Filed an upstream bug report
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540146
> Bug 545509 – when network-manager-applet asks a wlan password and the wlan
> list is open X blocks
> 
sorry, wrong URL, correct is: 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545509

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-07-30 13:19:11 UTC]

I've added [e-mail] as a CC on the upstream bug, let's track it there.

Thanks

[Comment 6 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2009-03-05 18:56:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I've added [e-mail] as a CC on the upstream bug, let's track it there.
> 

Upstream bug got marked as dupe; CCed us on the new bug. Changing URL here..

[Comment 7 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-04-22 22:53:24 UTC]

upstream bug is needinfo, please provide them with any necessary input and reopen when done.

[Comment 8 Florian Streibelt 2009-04-22 23:05:57 UTC]

can not reproduce the bug any more - works for me, there are in fact some duplicates of the upstream bug but in addition I found out there seems to exist a Interrupt-handling problem on my specifiv hardware. 

When enabling/disabling my WIFI the keyboard locks for some seconds.

[Comment 9 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-04-22 23:08:38 UTC]

ok, thanks for the info

[Comment 10 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-04-22 23:09:10 UTC]

and closing fixed then. Don't hesitate to reopen it is was after all not only hardware related.

[Comment 11 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-07-29 08:03:02 UTC]

*** Bug 279544 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***