SIGWINCH causes brief hang

[aarons]

Binary package hint: compiz

This is definitely something that appears in 9.04 and not 8.10. I ran into this problem before when I installed some 9.04 packages onto my 8.10 system, and reverting those packages back to the versions from 8.10 helped. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly what the packages were, but they were whatever is required to be upgrade to run the newest digikam version.

So I previous had the problem and solved it, but then today decided to do a complete upgrade to 9.04 and the problem has returned.

Using compiz with the resize plugin: When you release the mouse button when resizing a window, the system briefly freezes for about 2 seconds. My videocard is a Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series using the ati-provided flgrx drivers. This bug does not seem to be related to that driver version. The machine is a dell studio 1537, running x86_64.

I remember thinking that this was caused by some kde libraries, so I'll try uninstalling a bunch of stuff to see if it resolves to narrow down the problem.

[aarons (aarons-ubuntu)]

Update:

I am pretty certain now this is not actually a compiz problem. The behavior shows up with whatever the fallback window-manager is. Running ltrace on gtk-window-decorator once I fell out of a crashed compiz I discovered that the 2 second pause is occuring with SIGWINCH. Indeed, testing other things that cause that signal, such as creating a window, restoring a window, etc, causes the brief pause. So I'd change the package this bug is filed for, but I'm not sure which package is actually broken.

[aarons (aarons-ubuntu)]

I traced the problem to one of the xorg packages. Right now I have all the xorg packages held at their versions from 8.10, and the problem has gone away. I'll enter a new bug for xorg and this one can be closed.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

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[aarons (aarons-ubuntu)]

Well, "Fixed Release" isn't really the right status, since the actual problem still exists. I believe the bug to be in the fglrx driver though, so "Invalid" seems more appropriate.