Florian G. Pflug wrote:
Tino Wildenhain wrote:
Kenneth Downs schrieb:
Dave Page wrote:
On my linux box, it also has the dubious honor of being the only
program I have ever seen that can lock X hard, with killing the X
server being the only rescue (if you call that a rescue). It can
connect over networks, but on mine it always seems to hang after
an hour or so, and you have to kill it and restart it.
That's a new one. Any other symptoms? Can you get a backtrace from
a coredump?
The good news is I could not reproduce it. But when it happens
again I'll know who to notify.
As I recall, the problem would occur in the query analyzer. If
there was highlighted text in the top window, and you highlighted a
row in the results, and then clicked into the upper window while
dragging the mouse, it would freeze the X server. It has happened
much much less often lately, but it did happen just two days ago,
and it always involves a click-drag situation.
Yes, that seems a gtk issue. You mark, then klick accidentaly into
the marked text (usually to change the mark area) and in the result
you are dragging the text to nowhere. pgadmin and X freezes in this
case. However you can login via another box and just kill pgadmin
to unfreeze. Maybe there is a problem with how drag & drop
is/isnt handled by the code? I have no idea.
It only happens in pgAdmin III, though, so it must be some strange
interaction between wxWindows and GTK. I believe that the window manager
is part of the problem too, because I've used KDE (together with kwin)
for the last few years, and while it had this freezing-problem
initially, it went away with some update. I believed that a wx or
pgadmin update solved this, but now I'm using Gnome (together with
metacity), and the problem is back... :-(
However, I figured out that if you press ALT-<key> with <key> being the
shortcut for some menu _directly_ after the freeze, the menu opens, and
Wow this is good to know.
I'm also glad to know I'm not the only person this is happening to.
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