MGSE media player extension seems to break Shell after a period of time in use
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Gwendal LE BIHAN |
Bug Description
I've been using the MGSE media player extension for a while now and I've noticed that since I've been using it, I've been running into issues where the GNOME Shell stops working correctly. After an indeterminate amount of time (it seems to vary) with Banshee running while using the extension, I've noticed that the window switcher dialog (Alt+Tab) will not leave the screen after it appears, the Shell overlay will no longer appear, I cannot switch windows or launch new programs, and basically the only thing I can feasibly do is force kill the session and log into a new one. I'm fairly certain its the media player extension that's causing this to happen, since this problem occurs on both Linux Mint 12 and Linux Mint Debian Edition with this extension installed and enabled, and disabling the extension causes the problem to cease.
Some further info that may or may not be useful:
- Both my Mint 12 and LMDE installations are similarly configured, running on the same physical hardware.
- Both OSes have the following list of extensions enabled (aside from the media player extension, which I've disabled until further notice; all extensions are MGSE packages except the weather indicator extension):
- noa11y
- User Themes
- Alt Tab
- Weather indicator
- Shutdown Menu
I can provide more info if people need it and let me know what it is they need.
summary: |
- MGSE media player seems to break Shell after a period of time in use + MGSE media player extension seems to break Shell after a period of time + in use |
affects: | community.linuxmint.com → linuxmint |
Changed in linuxmint: | |
assignee: | nobody → Gwendal LE BIHAN (gwendal-lebihan-dev) |
Changed in linuxmint: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
affects: | linuxmint → ubuntu |
Since I'm apparently not the only one to encounter this issue, I think I can safely add some possible steps to reproduce it:
Step 1: Make sure the media player extension is enabled.
Step 2: Start up a media player that the extension supports (eg. Banshee) and start playing music.
Step 3: Go about your business as usual.
Step 4: Eventually the Shell should pretty much break completely (while not dropping the session entirely), ceasing to clear the Alt-Tab window/application switcher box, ceasing to open the overlay, ceasing to switch window focus correctly, ceasing to launch new applications, etc.