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Bug 437850 - x11-wm/fvwm 2.6.5 crashes when switching tabs in mail-client/thunderbird or www-client/firefox
Summary: x11-wm/fvwm 2.6.5 crashes when switching tabs in mail-client/thunderbird or w...
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Jesús Guerrero Botella (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2012-10-10 14:37 UTC by kpts44
Modified: 2013-02-03 14:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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emerge --info of my machine (file_437850.txt,5.13 KB, text/plain)
2012-10-10 14:37 UTC, kpts44
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Description kpts44 2012-10-10 14:37:13 UTC
Created attachment 326192 [details]
emerge --info of my machine

Yesterday I upgraded from fvwm 2.6.3 to fvwm 2.6.5. With the new fvwm 2.6.5, every time I open the addon tab in thunderbird and switch back to my mail tab fvwm crashes, taking me back to the gdm login screen. The same crash happens randomly when switching firefox tabs.

I tried fvwm 2.6.5 using the USE=vanilla or USE=-vanilla but the same crash happen with both versions. 

Now, I downloaded the latest CVS version of fvwm 2.6.5 and compiled it: it works perfectly, no crash since then.

I attached my emerge --info to this post, but I can also attach my .fvwm2rc config file if you need.
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-01-20 08:12:39 UTC
Does this patch solve the problem?
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/fvwm.git/plain/fvwm-0005-FvwmPager-be-more-careful-with-window-labels.patch

(proxy-maintainers, I CC you because i92guboj doesn't have commit access neither proxy committer... maybe it's time to become a developer with commit rights ;))
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-01-20 08:15:28 UTC
Well, not sure if that is needed since this is also under desktop-wm herd... (I don't understand why it had maintainer-needed listed)
Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2013-01-24 05:43:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Well, not sure if that is needed since this is also under desktop-wm herd...
> (I don't understand why it had maintainer-needed listed)

Because no one in desktop-wm is willing to help Jesús (historically) so when I stepped down due to traveling, I added m-needed.
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2013-02-03 14:57:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Does this patch solve the problem?
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/fvwm.git/plain/fvwm-0005-FvwmPager-be-
> more-careful-with-window-labels.patch
> 
> (proxy-maintainers, I CC you because i92guboj doesn't have commit access
> neither proxy committer... maybe it's time to become a developer with commit
> rights ;))