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guayaseal

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Registered: 2022-07-14

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Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

ArchLinux, nVidia drivers

Something affecting computers at work. I cannot reproduce on my own notebooks. Seems to be a bit grotesque and I cannot explain to logically:

two xfce-terminals started,
in the first one I run vim,
in the second one I execute:
$ kill -SIGKILL `pgrep gvim`
xfdeskop crashes and must be started manually ($ xfdesktop &)

WTF? something with a dbus? systemd? nVidia drivers? Any help welcome...

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

Check the journal for any entries when this happens. Also look in ~/.xsession-errors if you have one.

Just tested here and it can't replicate either.

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guayaseal

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

Today:
1. Started XFCE (via LightDM).
2. Started a terminal with 'top' in it.
3. In a second terminal:

$ su -
# strace -p `pgrep xfdestop` -o xfdesktop.log

4. In a third terminal:

$ kill `pgrep top`

5. xfdestop crashes 
See the strace result in: https://pages.mini.pw.edu.pl/~kozlowski … esktop.log (Can I attach a file to a post?)
Nothing logged by a journald.

Last edited by guayaseal (2025-03-17 19:41:44)

ToZ

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

Okay. Following your steps above, xfdesktop crashes for me as well. No log file entries, no crash or core files.

If I run xfdesktop in debug mode, I get one entry:

DBG[xfce-sm-client.c:776] xfce_sm_client_set_state(): state change: IDLE -> DISCONNECTED

Since its replicatable, you should create a bug report.

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guayaseal

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

I'd appreciate if you did it:

"Due to spamming, we have disabled the creation of new accounts." 
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ToZ

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

Its actually not a good idea for someone else to create the bug report. The reason being, that part of fixing the bug is further troubleshooting and testing, and the person who this is affecting would be best suited to describe, provide info, and possibly test the resolution.

You need to create an account to be able to submit bug requests, but its a simple procedure to do so.

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correctmost

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

`pgrep top` will return the process ID of xfdesktop because "top" is a substring of "xfdesktop".

guayaseal

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

`pgrep top` will return the process ID of xfdesktop because "top" is a substring of "xfdesktop".

I'm an idiot 

ToZ

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Re: Sending a signal to vim crashes xfdesktop??

`pgrep top` will return the process ID of xfdesktop because "top" is a substring of "xfdesktop".

I'm an idiot 

That makes two of us.

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