Do doesn't load (no process) if started together with compiz

[Hinrich]

I checked all other (similar) bugs, but I believe this is no duplicate.

If Do is started at the same time as compiz, it crashes in almost all cases.
This has been reported on various boards and as workaround it has been proposed to launch Do after calling "sleep x" (usually 10 to 30 seconds) in a script. This works, but is in my opinion no adequate solution.

The last message on stdout is:
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Marshaling composited_changed signal
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... then it goes on at stderr (see attachment).

This happens with 0.8.2 and also with the current bazaar trunk.

System:
Intel Graphics GM965 with xf86-video-intel 2.8.0 (latest release)
Arch Linux, Gnome, Compiz 0.8.2, Startup with fusion-icon

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

what distro?

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--Alex Launi

[Hinrich (bugs-hinrich)]

Arch Linux (see bug report, last line ;-) ). Seems to occur at Ubuntu as well:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1056007
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1102531
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65502

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

The actual exception you posted shouldnt occur... at least not with the latest bzr trunk. We have an explicit null check in place on the only thing that can be null. I wonder if perhaps at some point after we check it (where we remove like 5 event listeners) the object becomes null... I'm not even sure that can happen.

Really the only problem you should have at startup is the standard 'docky wont show' or 'Do uses 100% cpu' bugs everyone else seems to have. :-)

If I make a test branch would you be willing to pull/compile/test that to see if it fixed (as I cant reproduce this bug)?

[Hinrich (bugs-hinrich)]

Thanks for the response. I'd be glad to help and test it with another branch.

[Chris (narbsy)]

I have this same bug, same log messages and everything while running xmonad & xcompmgr, though it only occurs when I start gnome-do before xcompmgr, and not after. Having a sleep (even sleep 30) does not affect it.

[Chris (narbsy)]

Err, running latest of bazaar trunk.